When is Hanukkah 2026?
Saturday,
December 5, 2026
Begins at sundown on Friday, December 4, 2026 (sunset is 4:28 PM in New York) and ends at nightfall on Saturday, December 12, 2026. 22 days from today, Friday, November 13, 2026, US Eastern Time. Hebrew year 5787.
- Day of week
- Saturday
- Against 2025
- 10 days earlier
- Hebrew year
- 5787
- Days away
- 22
Why Hanukkah falls when it does in 2026
Hanukkah is fixed in the Hebrew calendar, which is lunisolar: twelve lunar months fall about eleven days short of a solar year, so a leap month is added seven times in every nineteen. That is why the Gregorian date swings rather than drifts — 10 days earlier than 2025, and why it always lands in roughly the same season.
Hanukkah 2026 on the calendar
| ISO week number, Monday to Sunday | Sun | Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri | Sat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 49 | Hanukkah | ||||||
| 50 | |||||||
| 51 | |||||||
| 52 | |||||||
| 53 |
Within a week of Hanukkah in 2026
Which dates fall near Hanukkah changes every year, because the calendars move against each other.
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