Groundhog Day 2028 is Wednesday, 2 February 2028
There are 532 days between 19 August 2026 and Groundhog Day 2028, which falls on Wednesday, 2 February 2028. That is exactly 76 weeks, or 362 working days once Saturdays, Sundays and the US federal holidays in between are taken out — the figure that matters if you are counting delivery lead time or a work schedule rather than sleeps. The date is 2028-02-02 in ISO form and 2/2/2028 in the US format, it falls in ISO week 5 of 2028, and it is day 33 of 366.
How the date of Groundhog Day is decided
Groundhog Day is always 2 February.
That makes it a fixed date: the same day of the same month every year, so it lands on a different weekday each time. In 2028 it is a Wednesday.
Groundhog Day is an observance rather than a federal holiday. Offices, banks and schools stay open unless an individual employer chooses otherwise, and it counts as an ordinary business day in every calculator here. Only the eleven federal holidays are treated as non-working days — the list and the reasoning are on the holiday sources page.
Groundhog Day in the years after 2028
| Year | Date | Day | Countdown |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2029 | 2 February 2029 | Friday | Groundhog Day 2029 |
| 2030 | 2 February 2030 | Saturday | — |
| 2031 | 2 February 2031 | Sunday | — |
The date does not move, but the weekday does — which is why the same holiday gives a long weekend in some years and not others.
Every convention used above — whether the start date counts, how month ends are clamped, which holidays close an office — is written out on the methodology page, including how we count the 362 working days above.