December 2026 Printable Calendar – With Holidays

Christmas Falls on a Friday in 2026

December 2026 opens on Tuesday the 1st and ends on Thursday the 31st. Its only federal holiday is Christmas Day on Friday the 25th, and that placement is the most convenient one a holiday can take: because it closes the week rather than splitting it, the four days before it — Monday the 21st through Thursday the 24th — run as a unit. Federal buildings, post offices, and banks are shut on the 25th, and nothing is delivered by post.

The Month in Numbers

Of the 31 days, 23 are weekdays and eight are weekend days — Saturdays the 5th, 12th, 19th, and 26th, Sundays the 6th, 13th, 20th, and 27th. Removing Christmas leaves 22 federal working days, level with October and four more than November. The month begins on a Tuesday and closes on a Thursday, so the first grid row is shared with November and the last with January.

What the Holiday Moves

A Friday Christmas compresses the year-end rather than extending it. Parcel services typically end standard shipping between the 7th and the 13th, and anything signed for belongs in the week beginning the 14th. The week of the 21st keeps four working days before the holiday weekend. The week of the 28th begins on a Monday and finishes with New Year's Eve on Thursday the 31st, and most external parties are unavailable throughout it.

Year-End Close and Gift Logistics

Financial close, payroll cut-offs, insurance renewals, and any accounting that follows the calendar year all land in the fortnight before Christmas, which is why the week of the 7th carries more weight than the week of the 21st. On the household side, gift shipping deadlines track the same dates, and the last realistic ordering window for anything that has to arrive by the 25th closes early in the third week. Because December 2026 is the final month of both the quarter and the year, the two sets of deadlines stack on the same dates rather than spreading out.

Rolling Goals Into the New Year

December is also where next year's plan gets written. The week of the 14th is the practical window — the current year's work is winding down, but attention has not yet moved to the holiday. Anything settled then has nearly three weeks to take shape before January begins.

Why the Final Week Is Mostly Not Yours

The week beginning Monday the 28th runs four working days and then stops, because Friday the 1st of January 2027 is New Year's Day. It is also the week when counterparties disappear: suppliers are closed, approvals stall, and third parties who owe you something are unlikely to deliver it. Because January 2027 opens on a Friday, the next year's first full week does not begin until Monday the 4th, which gives the tail of December a five-day gap before anything restarts in earnest. Planning the first week of January against the 4th rather than the 1st avoids a week of chasing people who are not back yet.

Printing the Holiday Version

Everything fits one page in either size, and the holiday marking on the 25th needs no color to stand out. Marking the 25th first, then the shipping cut-off in the 7th-to-13th window, brings the month's two real deadlines into view at once. Use the print button today, or save the PDF for later printing or to pass to someone working to the same year-end.