California court holidays in 2029

The 2029 dates that trip people up

These 4 are court closures that a federal or out-of-state calendar will show as ordinary working days: Lincoln's Birthday, MON Feb 12, 2029, Farmworkers Day (observed), FRI Mar 30, 2029, Native American Day, FRI Sep 28, 2029 and Day after Thanksgiving, FRI Nov 23, 2029. 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, 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 Saturday, March 31 and is observed Friday, March 30. 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.