Here's When the Biblical Holidays Happen in 2026

This is when the Biblical holidays happen in 2026.

If you're looking for next year's dates for Passover, Unleavened Bread, First Fruits, Shavuot, the Feast of Trumpets, Yom Kippur, and the Feast of Tabernacles you have come to the right place. These holidays have historic and prophetic meaning in Scripture and believers today can take part in that by adding these dates to their calendars!

While the Bible gives specific dates for each holiday, the Gregorian calendar doesn't match up with the Creator's calendar so the dates land a little bit differently each year on our modern calendar. There are also a few different ways to calculate the start of the year and because of that some groups will observe them at slightly different times. What I'm sharing here is the most commonly used set of dates. Whether you go by this calendar or another, mark your calendars for these set apart times!

When do the Biblical holidays happen in 2026?

Passover - April 1-2

Unleavened Bread - April 2-9

First Fruits - April 4-5

Shavuot - May 21-23

Feast of Trumpets - September 11-13

Yom Kippur - September 20-21

Feast of Tabernacles - September 25 - October 2

A couple of things about this: according to this calendar, days start in the evening at sundown. This means that Passover starts on the evening of April 1 and goes through the evening of the 2nd. If you do not observe days as starting in the evening, then celebrating Passover the day of April 2nd would be appropriate. This calendar also gives an extra day to both the Feast of Trumpets and Shavuot, even though in the Bible they are both just one day events...feel free to just celebrate the first day of those!

It's also important to note that while all of these are special times, some of these days are considered Sabbaths which means we shouldn't work on them. These Sabbath days are the first and last days of Unleavened Bread, Shavuot, the Feast of Trumpets, Yom Kippur, and the first and last days of Tabernacles. This means that believers should request off from work or arrange to be away from their business on those days, as well as refrain from shopping, errands, and yard or household projects and chores. 

Sabbath days for 2026:

April 2-3
April 8-9
May 21-22
September 11-12
September 20-21
September 25-26
October 1-2

As well as all weekly Sabbaths, of course.

You have the opportunity to celebrate what God has done by joining in on the Biblical holidays this year!

Related posts:
The Beginner's Guide to the Biblical Holidays
Why the Biblical Holidays Are for All Believers
Six Reasons Believers Should Keep the Bible's Holidays Today