California court holidays in 2030

The 2030 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, TUE Feb 12, 2030, Farmworkers Day (observed), MON Apr 1, 2030, Native American Day, FRI Sep 27, 2030 and Day after Thanksgiving, FRI Nov 29, 2030. 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 2030

2030 is the only year of the five with no March closure. Farmworkers Day falls on Sunday, March 31, so the courts close Monday, April 1 instead, and that is the only April closure anywhere in this span. A March deadline count that pattern matches off the other years, where the closure sits at the end of March, misses it.

Otherwise 2030 is the calmest calendar here: of its 14 closures, only Farmworkers Day is observed on a shifted date. Everything else, including Veterans Day on its own Monday, November 11, lands where the statute puts it. From the Independence Day closure on Thursday, July 4 to Labor Day the courts run 41 court days, the shortest summer stretch of the five years.

Other years

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A court-day count started late in 2030 routinely runs into 2031, 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.