When is the next Friday the 13th?

Year	Friday the 13th falls in
2026	February, March, November
2027	August
2028	October
2029	April, July
2030	September, December
2031	June
2032	February, August

The tool at the top always counts from today's date in your time zone, so it stays current without you having to check a table.

Every year has at least one Friday the 13th and at most three. A year with three, like 2026, happens when February 13 is a Friday in a common year: February, March and November always start on the same weekday in common years, so March 13 and November 13 are Fridays too. In leap years the matching trio is January, April and July, as in 2012.

The longest possible gap between two Friday the 13ths is 14 months, and the shortest is one month (February to March in a common year). Over the 400-year Gregorian cycle, the 13th of the month actually falls on a Friday slightly more often than on any other day of the week, a quirk of how the calendar repeats.

A month has a Friday the 13th if and only if it starts on a Sunday. The 1st is a Sunday, so the 8th is a Sunday, and the 13th is five days later, a Friday.

That makes it easy to spot in any wall calendar: look for months whose first day sits in the Sunday column. In US calendars, which start the week on Sunday, those are the months where day 1 is in the far-left box.

The superstition combines two older ones: Friday as an unlucky day and 13 as an unlucky number. The combined idea became widespread in the late 19th and 20th centuries, helped along by popular novels and later the Friday the 13th horror films.

Fear of the date even has a name, paraskevidekatriaphobia. Many US buildings skip a 13th floor label, and some airlines skip row 13. Whether you avoid the date or plan a wedding on it (venues are sometimes easier to book), the calculator tells you exactly when it comes around.

Enter any start and end year between 1 and 99,999 to list every Friday the 13th in between, up to 400 years at once. Each row shows the year, the months, and how many there are, and the summary line gives the total. Dates before 1582 use the modern Gregorian calendar applied backward.

If you want to know the weekday of any other date, use the day of the week calculator; to count down to a specific date, try the days until calculator.

Planning something on the date on purpose? Friday the 13th has become a popular day for tattoo-shop specials, themed parties and horror movie marathons, so book early if you want in.