Judaism · 2026
Yom Kippur 2026 is on Monday, September 21, 2026
In 2026, Yom Kippur falls on a Monday.
The exact date of Yom Kippur 2026
Yom Kippur 2026 falls on Monday, September 21, 2026. That is a Monday, a regular working weekday in most countries. It is the 264th day of 2026 and sits in ISO week 39. If you are planning around it, the day of the week matters as much as the date itself, because it decides whether the observance creates a long weekend, a midweek pause, or a day that has to be moved under local substitute-holiday rules.
Because Yom Kippur lands on a Monday, it naturally extends the preceding weekend into a three-day break for anyone whose Saturday and Sunday are already free.
Yom Kippur around 2026
How the date moves in the years either side of 2026. Each year links to its own page with a countdown and the full day-of-week detail.
About Yom Kippur
Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, is the holiest day of the Jewish year. It falls on the tenth day of Tishrei, ten days after Rosh Hashanah, and closes the High Holy Days. Many Jewish communities observe it with fasting, intensive prayer, repentance, and abstention from ordinary work. Synagogue services and communal reflection are central to the day. Since the Hebrew calendar is lunisolar, Yom Kippur's Gregorian date changes each year while remaining in September or October. This page uses timekit's existing 2026-2035 religious holidays data, generated by the Hebrew calendar engine. In religious observance, Yom Kippur begins at sundown on the previous Gregorian date.
Calendar note: Computed with the local Hebrew calendar engine.
Yom Kippur 2026, common questions
- When is Yom Kippur 2026?
- Yom Kippur 2026 falls on Monday, September 21, 2026.
- What day of the week is Yom Kippur 2026?
- In 2026, Yom Kippur falls on a Monday, a weekday.
- When is Yom Kippur the year after 2026?
- In 2027, Yom Kippur falls on Saturday, October 9.
- Why does the date of Yom Kippur change each year?
- This page uses timekit's existing 2026-2035 religious holidays data, generated by the Hebrew calendar engine. In religious observance, Yom Kippur begins at sundown on the previous Gregorian date.