California court holidays in 2029
The 14 weekday closures California courts observe in 2029, generated by the same function every deadline on this site is rolled against (CCP § 12a). 4 of them are not federal holidays, which is where out-of-state calendars and generic date pickers go wrong.
Not legal advice. Rules attested September 29, 2026; last full pass August 17, 2026. Verify every date yourself. Read the full disclaimer
Each verified rule carries its own date on the methodology page, all of them September 29, 2026: the date the maintaining attorney last attested it. The last full pass, signed off on August 17, 2026, checked the rules against their official sources (the code, the California Rules of Court, or for court holidays the Judicial Council calendar), with the exceptions listed on the about page. Rules still awaiting sign-off are listed on the methodology page as not yet verified. County local rules are paraphrased summaries. Individual department and judge standing orders are included only where the court publishes them and we have read the document, so assume your own department has requirements beyond what you see here. Verify every date against the operative code sections, your court's rules and your department's own order before relying on it. Using this site creates no attorney-client relationship.
2029
| Date | Court closure | Federal holiday? |
|---|---|---|
| MONJan 1, 2029 | New Year's Day | Yes |
| MONJan 15, 2029 | Martin Luther King, Jr. Day | Yes |
| MONFeb 12, 2029 | Lincoln's Birthday | No, California only |
| MONFeb 19, 2029 | Presidents' Day | Yes |
| TUEApr 10, 2029 | Farmworkers Day | No, California only |
| MONMay 28, 2029 | Memorial Day | Yes |
| TUEJun 19, 2029 | Juneteenth | Yes |
| WEDJul 4, 2029 | Independence Day | Yes |
| MONSep 3, 2029 | Labor Day | Yes |
| FRISep 28, 2029 | Native American Day | No, California only |
| MONNov 12, 2029 | Veterans Day (observed) | Yes |
| THUNov 22, 2029 | Thanksgiving | Yes |
| FRINov 23, 2029 | Day after Thanksgiving | No, California only |
| TUEDec 25, 2029 | Christmas | Yes |
The 2029 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 (Monday, February 12); Farmworkers Day (Tuesday, April 10); Native American Day (Friday, September 28); and Day after Thanksgiving (Friday, November 23). 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 2029
Seven of 2029's 14 closures fall on Mondays, tied with 2028 for the heaviest Monday load of the five years: New Year's Day, Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, Lincoln's Birthday, Presidents' Day, Memorial Day, Labor Day, and the Veterans Day observance. Veterans Day itself falls on Sunday, November 11, the only time in this span it lands on a Sunday, and the courts close Monday, November 12.
Farmworkers Day falls on Tuesday, April 10. The Monday pattern matters more than it looks. Five of the seven Monday closures fall between January and May, so a 16-court-day motion notice or a 30-day response window running through the spring routinely crosses two of them.
Other years
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A court-day count started late in 2029 routinely runs into 2030, 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.
Projected from CCP § 135, Gov. Code § 6700 and rule 1.11. The Judicial Council has not published 2029; re-check this sheet when it does.
Rules verified September 29, 2026 · CCP amendments through January 1, 2026, and AB 540 (Stats. 2026, ch. 263) from January 1, 2027 · engine v1.3.0