New Jersey’s courts do not take their holidays straight from the statute. Each year the Supreme Court enters an order naming the legal holidays for the coming court year, which runs from July 1 to June 30, and R. 1:3-1 moves a deadline off the days that order names. Calendar year 2027 is therefore covered by two orders: the one for the 2026–2027 court year, dated , and the one for 2027–2028, dated . Both were read in the Judiciary’s own copies held by the New Jersey State Library, and the statute behind them, N.J.S.A. 36:1-1, on the Legislature’s database on .
Two court-year orders cover one calendar year
The orders follow the statute’s list and its two observance rules: a Saturday holiday is observed on the Friday before and a Sunday holiday on the Monday after. In 2027 that moves Independence Day to Monday, July 5, Christmas to Friday, December 24 and New Year’s Day 2028 to Friday, December 31, so the year closes with two shut Fridays a week apart. The order does not include Lincoln’s Birthday, and it does not include the Friday after Thanksgiving, which arrives by a separate order each November.
| Date | Holiday |
|---|---|
| New Year's Day | |
| Martin Luther King's Birthday | |
| Washington's Birthday | |
| Good Friday | |
| Memorial Day | |
| Juneteenth Day | |
| Independence Day (observed) | |
| Labor Day | |
| Columbus Day | |
| General Election Day | |
| Veterans Day | |
| Thanksgiving Day | |
| Day after Thanksgiving (yearly order; projected) | |
| Christmas Day (observed) | |
| New Year's Day 2028 (observed) |
Source: Court-year orders of July 18, 2025 and June 1, 2026; the Friday after Thanksgiving projected from the yearly order · verified 2026-11-08.
Good Friday, Election Day and the third Friday in June
Three dates set New Jersey apart from the federal list. Good , is a legal holiday by statute and the courts close. General Election Day, Tuesday, November 2, is one too, which few other court systems treat as a holiday for computing time. And Juneteenth is fixed on the third Friday in June, June 18 in 2027, rather than on the 19th; a deadline that would end on Saturday, June 19 under a federal count moves to Monday, June 21 in New Jersey because both the Friday and the weekend are excluded. A period of fewer than seven days skips all of these days in the middle of the count as well as at the end (R. 1:3-1).
Recess days and Lincoln’s Birthday are not holidays
The orders also schedule court recesses: the days of the Judicial College before Thanksgiving and the stretch between Christmas and New Year’s, when the courts hear only emergent matters. A recess is not a legal holiday, so a deadline ending on a recess day is due that day unless the court’s own order says otherwise, and the calculator does not move it. Lincoln’s Birthday works the other way: it is in the statute, but subsection (d) keeps state offices open and the orders leave it out, so the courts sit on and the calculator shows a deadline landing on it as due that day, with the next business day as a second reading.
| Date | Holiday |
|---|---|
| Lincoln's Birthday (courts open) |
Computed from N.J.S.A. 36:1-1 (New Jersey Legislature statute database). No official 2027 list has been loaded; confirm with your court.
Download the New Jersey 2027 list
- New Jersey court holidays (Supreme Court orders) 2027: iCalendar (.ics) · CSV
The file carries the Friday after Thanksgiving as projected until the Court’s order for 2027 issues; the changelog will record the change when it does. To count a New Jersey deadline with these dates and the five mail days applied, use the New Jersey calculator, and see the 2027 overview for every other system.
Questions about New Jersey holidays in 2027
Why is Juneteenth on June 18 in New Jersey in 2027?
Because N.J.S.A. 36:1-1 fixes the state holiday on the third Friday in June rather than on June 19, and the third Friday of June 2027 is the 18th. The federal holiday falls on Saturday, June 19 and is observed by federal offices on the same Friday, so the two dates coincide in 2027 but not in most years.
Is Election Day a court holiday in New Jersey?
Yes. Any general election day is a legal holiday under N.J.S.A. 36:1-1, the Supreme Court’s orders list it, and the courts are closed on . A deadline that ends that day runs to Wednesday, November 3.
Is the Friday after Thanksgiving a legal holiday for New Jersey deadlines in 2027?
Expected, but not yet ordered. Each autumn the Supreme Court declares the Friday after Thanksgiving a court recess day deemed the same as a legal holiday for computing time under the rules and the statutes of limitation. The order for had not issued when this page was checked, so the date is shown as projected.
Are New Jersey courts closed on Lincoln’s Birthday 2027?
No. February 12 is in the statute’s list, but the statute keeps state offices open on it and the Supreme Court’s orders omit it, so the courts sit on . Whether a deadline ending that day is nevertheless extended has not been decided; the calculator shows February 12 first and Monday, February 15, itself a holiday, as the alternative.