California court holidays in 2027

The 2027 dates that trip people up

These four are court closures that a federal or out-of-state calendar will show as ordinary working days: Lincoln's Birthday (Friday, February 12); Farmworkers Day (observed Friday, April 9); Native American Day (Friday, September 24); and Day after Thanksgiving (Friday, November 26). A response counted off a date near any of them lands a day late if the roll is missed.

The reverse error costs just as much. Columbus Day is a federal holiday and California courts are open. Lunar New Year, Diwali, Genocide Remembrance Day (April 24) and Admission Day (September 9) are California state holidays but not judicial holidays. The courts are open and the clock keeps running (CCP § 135, Gov. Code § 6700). Treating any of those as a closure produces a deadline that is early, which is survivable, but treating a closure as a working day produces one that is late.

Individual superior courts may also close by emergency order under Government Code § 68115. See Rowan v. Kirkpatrick (2020) 54 Cal.App.5th 289. Those closures cannot be predicted and are not in this list. The official Judicial Council calendar is the controlling source and should be re-checked each year.

What is different about 2027

2027 has 15 weekday closures, the most of the five years on this site, and 246 court days where every other year has 247. Two of the closures land in December: Christmas is observed Friday, December 24, and New Year's Day 2028 is observed Friday, December 31. No other year in this span closes twice in December, so the year ends with two consecutive long weekends.

The December 31 closure observes a 2028 holiday, and the Judicial Council has listed a closure like it under the year of the holiday: its 2022 schedule carried Friday, December 31, 2021 for New Year's Day 2022. The Council's published 2027 list does not show it, so look for it on the 2028 list. Cal. Rules of Court, rule 1.11 requires the closure either way.

2027 is also the first year Farmworkers Day falls on April 10 instead of March 31. April 10 is a Saturday, so the courts close Friday, April 9, and Wednesday, March 31 is an ordinary court day. Calendaring from 2026 habit gets both days wrong.

February is the tighter trap. Lincoln's Birthday falls on Friday, February 12 and Presidents' Day on Monday, February 15, which shuts the courts for four consecutive days. A court-day count that crosses that stretch moves further than the calendar suggests. Juneteenth, a Saturday, is observed Friday, June 18, and Independence Day, a Sunday, is observed Monday, July 5.

Other years

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A court-day count started late in 2027 routinely runs into 2028, so a single-year sheet is not always enough. Every closure from 2026 through 2030 is on the full California court holiday calendar, generated from this same function.

To apply these dates rather than read them, the discovery response deadline calculator and the trial countdown calculator both roll against this list automatically and print the weekday next to every date so you can see the roll happened.