Palm Sunday 2026 has already happened. It was Sunday, 29 March 2026, 143 days ago. This page is kept because the date and the rule behind it are still worth looking up — for the live countdown, go to Palm Sunday 2027, or to the always-current countdown.
Palm Sunday 2026 is Sunday, 29 March 2026
Palm Sunday 2026 fell on Sunday, 29 March 2026, which was 143 days before 19 August 2026. That is 20 weeks and 3 days, or 99 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 2026-03-29 in ISO form and 3/29/2026 in the US format, it falls in ISO week 13 of 2026, and it is day 88 of 365.
How the date of Palm Sunday is decided
The Sunday before Easter Sunday.
That makes it a computed date: there is no fixed day and no simple weekday rule, so it has to be worked out from a formula or a calendar of its own each year. In 2026 it works out as Sunday 29 March.
Palm Sunday 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.
Palm Sunday in the years after 2026
| Year | Date | Day | Countdown |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2027 | 21 March 2027 | Sunday | Palm Sunday 2027 |
| 2028 | 9 April 2028 | Sunday | Palm Sunday 2028 |
| 2029 | 25 March 2029 | Sunday | Palm Sunday 2029 |
Both the date and the weekday move, because the rule is not tied to either.
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 99 working days above.