How Many Days Until Black Friday?
Time Remaining Until Black Friday
What is the Black Friday date in numbers?
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For systems and international teams, YYYY-MM-DD (ISO 8601) is the safest format.
“How many days until Black Friday?” — quick FAQ
Which holiday rule does this page use?
We define Black Friday as the Friday immediately after U.S. Thanksgiving. Since U.S. Thanksgiving is the fourth Thursday in November, Black Friday falls between November 23 and November 29.
Why does your headline match other countdown sites?
Our headline shows calendar days — a midnight-to-midnight comparison that includes today. It updates once a day at your local midnight, so it won’t bounce around during the day as hours pass.
What do the hours/minutes/seconds represent?
The live ticker counts to your local 00:00 at the start of Black Friday. Those values come from a precise millisecond difference, while the day count uses calendar math. Together they stay intuitive and consistent.
Does daylight-saving time change the result?
No. The day count is tied to calendar dates, not clock hours. Whether a day has 23, 24, or 25 hours around a DST change, the calendar-day number remains correct. The live clock always targets your local start of Black Friday.
Can I copy the date cleanly?
Yes — use the copy buttons to grab either the long English date or the ISO 8601 format (YYYY-MM-DD) for forms, spreadsheets, and filenames.
How this page calculates the Black Friday countdown
This page provides two complementary views of time until Black Friday. The large grey box shows a calendar-day count — the number of date boundaries between today and the holiday, computed midnight-to-midnight and including today. That keeps the headline stable during the day and mirrors how most people mark off wall calendars.
Beneath it is a real-time breakdown in hours, minutes, and seconds to your local 00:00 at the start of Black Friday. By separating calendar logic (days) from clock logic (hours/minutes/seconds), the display avoids distracting mid-day oscillations while still giving you a precise ticking target for travel, promotions, or operations planning.
To find the date each year, we first compute the U.S. Thanksgiving as the fourth Thursday in November, then add one day to reach Friday. Programmatically, we take November 1, determine the first Thursday, add three weeks to get the fourth Thursday, and then add one day. If your device is already at or past the start of Black Friday, the countdown automatically advances to next year so it never sits at zero all day.
For cross-team coordination, we include useful metadata — the target date’s day-of-year index and ISO week number — plus common numeric date formats. To avoid ambiguity across regions, we recommend ISO 8601 (YYYY-MM-DD) when sharing or storing the date. Everything runs locally in your browser; no time-zone or location data is sent anywhere. The mini calendar opens on November and highlights the target Friday, with arrows to browse adjacent months.