Labor Day 2027: Date and Printable Calendar

When is Labor Day 2026?

Labor Day 2026 falls on Monday, September 7. It is a federal holiday fixed to the first Monday of September, so the date moves every year while the weekday never does. In 2027 it lands on September 6. Federal offices, banks and post offices close, and most schools take the day off.

From an 1882 parade to a federal holiday

The first Labor Day was a union parade through New York City in September 1882, and one state after another adopted it over the following decade. Congress made the first Monday of September a federal holiday in 1894, which is why the American labor holiday sits in early September rather than on May 1 like most of the rest of the world.

The unofficial end of summer

For most households the long weekend is less about the history and more about the handover: the last pool afternoon, the last barbecue, and the first full week of the school year waiting on the other side of it. That makes the September 2026 calendar the one worth printing early, with the holiday already marked on the grid and room to write the term dates around it. If you want the rest of the year on the wall too, all twelve months sit on the monthly calendar hub.

Printing the September calendar

The ready-made PDFs are US Letter size, and because they are vector files they scale cleanly to A4: pick "Fit to page" in your print dialog and nothing is cut off. If you want a true A4 page rather than a scaled one, the Calendar Maker has an A4 option that builds the calendar at A4 dimensions. More detail in the how-to-print guide.

Ten designs, all free to print

The same September grid is drawn in all twelve Pretty Calendars designs, from the plain Minimalist page to Cute, Floral, Cat, Vintage and Watercolor, and every one of them already carries the United States public holidays with Labor Day in place. The files are free for personal and classroom use, with no sign-up and no watermark; what you may not do is resell them or republish them on another download site, as our licensing policy explains. The English PDFs start the week on Sunday, and you can switch to a Monday start in the Calendar Maker if you prefer it. Other dated holidays are listed on the holidays hub.