💌 Valentine's Day
Use this page to check Valentine's Day dates by year, confirm the weekday for February 14, and plan cards, flowers, dining, or school events.
Valentine's Day 2026 falls on Saturday, February 14, 2026.
Valentine's Day is observed on February 14, so the date is fixed while the weekday changes each year.
Not a U.S. federal public holiday
Valentine's Day is widely observed in the United States, but it is not a federal public holiday.
U.S. context and planning
Valentine's Day is part of the U.S. calendar vocabulary people search for by year because the practical question is not only the name of the day, but the exact weekday and date. Use the date line above as the answer first: it is the part that matters for travel, school schedules, family plans, payroll cutoffs, event promotion, and calendar subscriptions.
For U.S. planning, always separate three ideas: the calendar date, the federal holiday status, and the local closure pattern. A date can be culturally important without being a federal public holiday, and a federal holiday can still have exceptions for private employers, hospitals, retail, transportation, and emergency services. That is why this page links the exact date to month and year calendar views instead of treating the name alone as enough.
If you are using this page for work, compare the date against your employer handbook, school district calendar, bank holiday list, carrier service alerts, or event venue schedule. If you are using it for family planning, add the date to a subscribed calendar rather than typing it once into a note, because year-specific pages are easiest to forget when the next year rolls around.
At a glance
- Use the first date line as the direct answer for year-specific searches.
- Check federal status separately from school, bank, employer, and local closures.
- Open the related month calendar when the surrounding week matters.
- Use the multi-year table for travel, campaigns, and recurring events.
Practical planning
- Confirm the date against any institution that can set its own closure calendar.
- For travel or shipping, check cutoff dates around the holiday week, not only the day itself.
- If the day affects a campaign or event, include both the weekday and the month-day in copy.
- Subscribe or print the matching calendar if you need the date beyond a one-time lookup.
How the date works
Valentine's Day in the United States is observed on February 14.
Valentine's Day is observed on February 14, so the date is fixed while the weekday changes each year.
Questions people ask
When is Valentine's Day this year and next year?
Valentine's Day in the United States uses a clear recurring rule, not a random float. In 2026, it is Saturday, February 14, 2026. In 2027, it is Sunday, February 14, 2027. The weekday pattern is the stable part; the month and day on the wall calendar are what move when the rule is “last Monday in May” or “second Sunday in May.” If you are scheduling across fiscal years, open both year pages and compare the full date lines, not only the year digit.
Why does the date for Valentine's Day change every year?
Valentine's Day is observed on February 14, so the date is fixed while the weekday changes each year. The date itself does not move, but the weekday changes every year. That is why people still search for year-specific pages: “what day of the week is Valentine's Day?” is often the real planning question behind “when is Valentine's Day 2026?”
Is Valentine's Day a U.S. federal public holiday, and do banks, schools, and the post office close?
This observance is not a universal U.S. federal public holiday in the “everyone gets a paid Monday” sense. That matters if you are asking whether your kids have school, whether your team has stand-up, or whether a court accepts filings. Valentine's Day is widely observed in the United States, but it is not a federal public holiday. Always confirm the institution, not a generic U.S. chart.
How can I use AnyCalendar to track Valentine's Day in Google, Apple, or Outlook, or print a PDF?
Start from a year page like Valentine's Day 2026 or Valentine's Day 2027 to get the exact ISO date and a link into the right month. From there, use the main site’s subscribe, calendar, and print tools so the date is not a one-off you mis-type into a spreadsheet. If you are running a business, a subscribe feed is usually better than a manual entry because it updates with the year roll-forward instead of a stale 2023 row hiding in a template.
Where is Valentine's Day in the list of U.S. public holidays for 2026?
The country-wide U.S. public-holiday table for anycalendar.org is at /holidays/us. Observance guides like this page add narrative and multi-year context that a one-line list cannot, but the list is still a good sanity check when you want every federal-style date in one pass. If the list name does not match this guide word-for-word, remember that Nager and local names can use different labels for the same Monday.