January 2027 Important Dates: Holidays, Deadlines and Events, With Days Until Each

January 2027 begins on Friday, Jan. 1 and has two federal holidays, New Year’s Day and the Birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr. on Monday, Jan. 18, according to the Office of Personnel Management (OPM). The month also holds the Quadrantid meteor shower on Jan. 3-4, the Golden Globes on Jan. 10, the first three National Football League (NFL) playoff rounds and a fourth-quarter estimated tax date on Jan. 15. The countdowns below are counted from Saturday, Oct. 31, 2026.

January 2027 calendar at a glance

January 2027 starts on a Friday and ends on a Sunday, so it takes six rows on a Sunday-start calendar. The two federal holidays are in bold.

Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat
					1 · New Year’s Day	2
3 · Quadrantids	4	5	6 · Three Kings Day	7 · Orthodox Christmas	8	9 · NFL Week 18
10 · Golden Globes	11	12	13	14	15 · Estimated tax	16 · Wild Card
17	18 · Martin Luther King Jr. Day	19	20	21 · Oscar nominations	22 · Full moon	23 · Divisional
24	25 · Burns Night	26	27	28	29	30
31 · Championship Games

For a plain monthly layout with room for your own plans, the January 2027 printable calendar has several designs, and our story on the January 2027 calendar printable covers them.

January 2027 important dates

Date	Day	What happens	Days from Oct. 31
Jan. 1	Friday	New Year’s Day (federal holiday); Harvard’s Regular Decision deadline	62
Jan. 2	Saturday	Earth at perihelion at 9:33 p.m. Eastern Standard Time (EST)	63
Jan. 3	Sunday	Quadrantid peak night begins, peak near 10:30 p.m. EST; Critics Choice Awards	64
Jan. 5	Tuesday	Stanford, Penn and Brown Regular Decision deadlines	66
Jan. 6	Wednesday	Three Kings Day	67
Jan. 7	Thursday	Orthodox Christmas; new moon at 3:24 p.m. EST	68
Jan. 9 to 10	Saturday and Sunday	NFL Week 18, the end of the regular season	70 to 71
Jan. 10	Sunday	84th Golden Globes on CBS	71
Jan. 15	Friday	Fourth-quarter 2026 estimated tax due; first quarter moon at 3:34 p.m. EST	76
Jan. 16 to 18	Saturday to Monday	NFL Wild Card Weekend	77 to 79
Jan. 18	Monday	Martin Luther King Jr. Day (federal holiday)	79
Jan. 21	Thursday	Oscar nominations announced	82
Jan. 22	Friday	Full moon, the Wolf Moon, at 7:17 a.m. EST	83
Jan. 23 to 24	Saturday and Sunday	NFL Divisional Playoffs	84 to 85
Jan. 25	Monday	Burns Night	86
Jan. 29	Friday	Last quarter moon at 5:55 a.m. EST	90
Jan. 31	Sunday	NFL American Football Conference (AFC) and National Football Conference (NFC) Championship Games	92

To count from another day, add the days left in the current month to the days in each month before your date. From Oct. 31 there are 0 days left in October, 30 in November and 31 in December, so Jan. 18 is 0 + 30 + 31 + 18 = 79 days away.

Federal holidays in January 2027

OPM lists two federal holidays for January 2027. New Year’s Day is Friday, Jan. 1, and the Birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr. is Monday, Jan. 18, the third Monday of the month. What is closed on the second one, from federal offices to the New York Stock Exchange, is in our story on what is closed on Martin Luther King Jr. Day 2027.

The sky: Quadrantids, perihelion and moon phases

The American Meteor Society (AMS) lists the Quadrantid peak night as Jan. 3-4 and predicts the peak near 10:30 p.m. EST on Sunday, Jan. 3. Our Quadrantid meteor shower 2027 guide gives the peak time in each U.S. time zone. The U.S. Naval Observatory (USNO) puts Earth’s perihelion, the point of its orbit nearest the Sun, at 9:33 p.m. EST on Saturday, Jan. 2.

Moon phase	Date	Time (EST)
New moon	Thursday, Jan. 7	3:24 p.m.
First quarter	Friday, Jan. 15	3:34 p.m.
Full moon (Wolf Moon)	Friday, Jan. 22	7:17 a.m.
Last quarter	Friday, Jan. 29	5:55 a.m.

Awards and football in January 2027

The Critics Choice Awards come first, on Sunday, Jan. 3, on USA Network from 7 to 10 p.m. Eastern Time (ET). The 84th Golden Globes follow on Sunday, Jan. 10, on CBS, and Oscar nominations are announced Thursday, Jan. 21. The full season, through the Oscars on March 14, is in our awards calendar for 2027.

The NFL’s important dates list puts the end of the regular season in Week 18 on Jan. 9-10, Wild Card Weekend on Jan. 16-18, the Divisional Playoffs on Jan. 23-24 and the Championship Games on Sunday, Jan. 31. Wild Card Weekend ends on Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Matchups are set after Week 18; see the NFL playoff schedule for 2027.

Deadlines in January 2027

• Jan. 1 to 5, college applications: Harvard lists Jan. 1 for Regular Decision, and Yale, Cornell and Johns Hopkins list Jan. 2. Duke and Notre Dame list Jan. 4, and Stanford, Penn and Brown list Jan. 5. These are the dates on each college’s admissions page on Oct. 31, 2026; the Regular Decision deadlines story has the wording and the weekday of each.
• Jan. 15, estimated tax: the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) lists Friday, Jan. 15, 2027 as the due date for the fourth-quarter 2026 estimated tax payment.

Orthodox Christmas, Three Kings Day and Burns Night

Orthodox Christmas falls on Thursday, Jan. 7, and Three Kings Day on Wednesday, Jan. 6. The Jan. 7 date is Fresh Calendars’ calendar arithmetic: Dec. 25 on the Julian calendar is Jan. 7 on the Gregorian calendar until 2100. The reasoning is in our Orthodox Christmas 2027 story. Burns Night, the birthday of the poet Robert Burns, is Monday, Jan. 25, according to VisitScotland, and our Burns Night 2027 story sets out the order of a Burns Supper.

Print the January 2027 dates page

The free one-page January 2027 Important Dates printable marks the holidays, moon phases, awards, NFL rounds and deadlines above on a month grid, with space for your own plans. Pair it with a printable weekly calendar to plan each week of the month. The previous month in this series is the December 2026 important dates story.