Father's Day falls on the third Sunday of June. It is always a Sunday between June 15 and June 21, so the date changes every year.
Year
Date
Days away
2027
238 days
2028
602 days
2029
966 days
2030
1,330 days
2031
1,694 days
When is Father’s Day 2027, and is it a long weekend?
Under 36 U.S.C. 109, “the third Sunday in June is Father’s Day,” so it can only fall from June 15 to June 21; the next one is Sunday, June 20, 2027. Juneteenth National Independence Day is the federal holiday on June 19, inside that same seven-day window. The Father’s Day date and Juneteenth are therefore never more than four days apart, and the weekday of June 19 decides whether they share a weekend.
June 19
Father’s Day
Next years
Friday
June 21, long weekend
2037 and 2043
Saturday
June 20, long weekend
2027 and 2032
Sunday
June 19, long weekend
2033 and 2039
Monday
June 18, long weekend
2028 and 2034
Tuesday
June 17
2029 and 2035
Wednesday
June 16
2030 and 2041
Thursday
June 15
2031 and 2036
When June 19 is a Saturday, federal employees get Friday, June 18, off; when it is a Sunday, they get Monday, June 20. Either way, and whenever June 19 is a Friday or a Monday, Father’s Day falls inside a three-day weekend for federal workers and for employers that follow the federal holiday schedule. The day itself earns no time off: 5 U.S.C. 6103, the law that sets federal holidays, never mentions Father’s Day, and a Sunday observance never shifts to a weekday. The Juneteenth countdown shows the observed day for the coming year.
Why Father’s Day took until 1972
Sonora Smart Dodd of Spokane, Washington, wanted a day for fathers after hearing a sermon about Mother’s Day. Her father had raised her and her five siblings on his own. She helped organize the first observance at a YMCA in Spokane on the third Sunday in June 1910, which was June 19.
Presidents Woodrow Wilson and Calvin Coolidge both backed a national day, the Library of Congress notes, but members of Congress worried it would turn commercial.
The 1966 and 1972 laws
1966, for one year only. Public Law 89-450, approved June 15, named the third Sunday in June 1966 as Father’s Day. Lyndon B. Johnson signed Proclamation 3730 the same Wednesday, asking for the flag on all government buildings four days later, on Sunday, June 19.
1972, for good. Public Law 92-278, approved April 24, designated the third Sunday in June “of each year” as Father’s Day, and Richard Nixon signed it. His Proclamation 4127 named June 18, 1972, the first Father’s Day under the permanent law.
That 1972 text is now 36 U.S.C. 109. Mother’s Day had held the same standing since 1914, so fathers waited 58 years longer.