Next Friday the 13th: Nov. 13, 2026, Then Aug. 13, 2027, With Dates to 2035

The next Friday the 13th is Nov. 13, 2026, the third and last of 2026, and after it the next one is not until Friday, Aug. 13, 2027, 273 days later. From Oct. 27, 2026, that is 17 days away. We computed every date in this story from the Gregorian calendar, using the leap-year rule the U.S. Naval Observatory (USNO) publishes.

November 2026 starts on a Sunday, Nov. 1, which is also the day daylight saving time ends in the U.S. That Sunday start is what puts a Friday on the 13th. Many people consider the date unlucky; the calendar part is simple arithmetic.

When is the next Friday the 13th after November 2026?

Friday, Aug. 13, 2027. The wait is 273 days, or 39 weeks. After that the dates come once a year for two years, then more often. Here is every Friday the 13th from 2026 to 2035:

Year	Friday the 13th dates	How many
2026	Feb. 13, March 13, Nov. 13	3
2027	Aug. 13	1
2028	Oct. 13	1
2029	April 13, July 13	2
2030	Sept. 13, Dec. 13	2
2031	June 13	1
2032	Feb. 13, Aug. 13	2
2033	May 13	1
2034	Jan. 13, Oct. 13	2
2035	April 13, July 13	2

The gaps in that list repeat: 28, 91, 182, 245, 273 and 427 days are the only ones between neighboring dates. The longest wait, 427 days, comes before Oct. 13, 2028 and before Sept. 13, 2030. The printable list below gives the gap for each date.

Why does November 2026 have a Friday the 13th?

A month has a Friday the 13th exactly when it starts on a Sunday. If the 1st is a Sunday, the 6th is a Friday, and so are the 13th, 20th and 27th. November 2026 starts on Sunday, Nov. 1, so Nov. 13 is a Friday. Our November 2026 printable calendar shows the month with that Friday in place.

The same rule explains the other two dates this year. February and March 2026 both start on a Sunday, which is why Feb. 13 and March 13 are both Fridays. February 2026 has 28 days, so March starts on a Sunday too.

Why does every year have at least one, and never more than three?

Each month’s 13th is a weekday that depends on the month before it. A month of 31 days pushes the next month’s weekdays forward by three days, a 30-day month by two, and February by one in a common year or two in a leap year. Add those shifts up through the year and the 13ths of the 12 months land on all seven weekdays at least once. So one of them is always a Friday.

The same shifts show why three is the ceiling. In a common year, February, March and November share a weekday; in a leap year, January, April and July do. No other weekday repeats more than that, so no year has four Friday the 13ths. We checked every year from 1900 to 2400 to confirm it: the lowest count is one and the highest is three.

Which earlier years had the same Friday the 13ths as 2026?

2015 had Friday the 13ths in February, March and November, the same three months as 2026. 2020, a leap year, had two: March 13 and Nov. 13. Our story on which year has the same calendar as 2027 explains how weekdays repeat from year to year.

How often does the 13th fall on a Friday?

The Gregorian calendar repeats exactly every 400 years, which is 4,800 months. We counted the weekday of the 13th in every one of them:

Weekday of the 13th	Times in 400 years
Friday	688
Sunday	687
Wednesday	687
Monday	685
Tuesday	685
Thursday	684
Saturday	684

Friday leads by one over Sunday and Wednesday, so the 13th is a Friday slightly more often than any other weekday. The gap is small: Friday takes 688 of 4,800 months, and a perfectly even split would be about 686.

Does Friday, Nov. 13, 2026 matter for anything else?

It is also the date of Appeal Night for the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) Children in Need in the United Kingdom, according to our story on Children in Need 2026. For planning the rest of the month, the November 2026 calendar printable has every date, and the printable yearly calendar shows all twelve months on one page.

Printable list of every Friday the 13th to 2035

The one-page list has all 17 dates from Feb. 13, 2026 to July 13, 2035, each with the number of days since the one before. Print it and mark off each one as it passes.