✊🏿 Martin Luther King Jr. Day 2027
Date Verification
- Status
- Verified Observance
- Date used
- 18 January 2027
- Date rule
- Weekday-of-month Gregorian rule
- Checked
- 2026-09-11
- Primary source
- U.S. Office of Personnel Management
Third Monday in January.
What Martin Luther King Jr. Day is
Kept on the third Monday in January, close to King’s birthday on 15 January. It became a federal holiday in 1983 after a fifteen-year campaign, and was not observed by every state until 2000.
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