How Many Days Until Mother’s Day?
Time Remaining Until Mother’s Day
What is the Mother’s Day date in numbers?
| MM-DD-YYYY | — |
|---|---|
| DD-MM-YYYY | — |
| YYYY-MM-DD | — |
| MM/DD/YYYY | — |
| DD/MM/YYYY | — |
For systems and international teams, YYYY-MM-DD (ISO 8601) is the safest format.
“How many days until Mother’s Day?” — quick FAQ
Which countries does this page match?
This page follows the widely used rule of the second Sunday in May (United States, most of Europe, Australia, New Zealand, much of Asia and Latin America). Some places celebrate on different dates — for example, the UK and Ireland observe Mothering Sunday in March. This page intentionally targets the second-Sunday-in-May tradition.
Why does your number match other countdown sites?
We use calendar days for the headline: a midnight-to-midnight comparison that includes today. That means the big number updates once per day at your local midnight and doesn’t wiggle during the day as hours and minutes pass.
What about hours, minutes, and seconds?
Beneath the headline, you’ll see a live countdown to 00:00 on the next Mother’s Day in your time zone. Those values come from a precise millisecond difference, while the day count uses calendar math, so the two views remain intuitive side by side.
Do daylight-saving shifts affect the result?
No. The day count is anchored to dates, not clock hours. Whether a day is 23, 24, or 25 hours around a DST change, the calendar-day number is unaffected. The live clock always targets your local start of Mother’s Day.
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.
Need another country’s date?
If you need a version for the UK, Mexico, or another country with a different observance, we can mirror this page and swap in the appropriate rule.
How this page calculates the Mother’s Day countdown
This page provides two complementary views of time until Mother’s Day. 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 aligned with how most people mark off wall calendars.
Below it, you’ll see a real-time breakdown in hours, minutes, and seconds to your local 00:00 on Mother’s Day. Separating calendar logic (days) from clock logic (hours/minutes/seconds) avoids distracting mid-day oscillations while still giving you a live ticker for fine-grained planning.
To determine the date, we apply the simple rule used in many countries: find the second Sunday in May. Programmatically, we take May 1, compute the first Sunday of that month, and add one week. If your device is already at or past the start of that Sunday, the countdown automatically advances to next year so it never sits at zero all day.
For coordination across teams and regions, we include helpful metadata — the target date’s day-of-year index and ISO week number — plus common numeric formats. To avoid ambiguity internationally, 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 May and highlights the target Sunday, with arrows to browse nearby months.