How many days until Black Friday?

When is Black Friday?

Black Friday is the day after Thanksgiving in the United States. In 2026 Thanksgiving is Thursday, November 26, so Black Friday is Friday, November 27. It is the traditional start of the holiday shopping season, and many shops, both in stores and online, plan their calendar around it. The name is usually traced to Philadelphia in the 1960s, where police used it for the crowds and traffic of the day after Thanksgiving.

Three days later comes Cyber Monday, which began as the online counterpart of Black Friday. In 2026 it is Monday, November 30. The line under the countdown shows it.

How the date is set

US Thanksgiving is the fourth Thursday of November, so Black Friday is always the Friday that follows. That puts it between November 23 and November 29. Cyber Monday follows between November 26 and December 2, and in some years, such as 2030, it falls in December.

How this countdown works

The page works out the fourth Thursday of November in your browser, adds one day and counts down to the start of Black Friday in your own time zone. On Black Friday itself the countdown moves on to Cyber Monday, and after Cyber Monday it starts again for the next year. Thanksgiving itself has its own countdown on the days until Thanksgiving page.

The list in the countdown shows how long until Black Friday begins in six cities and what time that is for you. When a particular shop starts or ends its sale is up to the shop.

Black Friday for the next five years

Black Friday outside the US

Thanksgiving in November is an American holiday, but Black Friday has spread far beyond it. Many shops in the UK, Canada, Australia, India and across Europe run Black Friday on the same Friday as the US, and Cyber Monday on the Monday after. Canada’s own Thanksgiving is in October, yet its Black Friday follows the US date too.

Because the day starts at local midnight, Black Friday begins in Australia many hours before it reaches New York, and online shops that sell in several countries may follow one time zone or several. In some countries shops spread Black Friday over the whole week, which makes the Friday the busiest day rather than the only one.

Put the Black Friday countdown on your Home Screen

1. Install Left on your iPhone and open Ahead.
2. Tap Add a date ahead, choose New date, name it Black Friday and set Starts to the date in the table above.
3. Add Left’s Ahead widget to your Home Screen or Lock Screen and choose the date in Edit Widget.

Black Friday moves with Thanksgiving, so add the next year’s date once this one has passed. The Home Screen widget guide covers each step, and the countdown widget page shows the widget styles.

Read more

• The best countdown widgets for iPhone
• Organise your dates in Ahead and Since
• Add a widget to your iPhone Home Screen

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