When is Thanksgiving 2024?

When is Thanksgiving 2024? Learn the history of Thanksgiving, recipes, and more with Farmers’ Almanac, your go-to guide.

Thanksgiving 2024: Recipes, Traditions, and Trivia

Thanksgiving is always the fourth Thursday in November in the United States. Thanksgiving 2024 is Thursday, November 28, 2024. In Canada, Thanksgiving occurs on the second Monday in October. More dates are included in the chart below:

Thanksgiving Calendar
Year	United States	Canada
2025	Thursday, November 27	Monday, October 13
2026	Thursday, November 26	Monday, October 12
2027	Thursday, November 25	Monday, October 11
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History of the Holiday

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Thanksgiving has been an official holiday since the days of George Washington, who, in 1789, issued the first proclamation of Thanksgiving to honor the new national constitution.

During the early 19th century, numerous states began to observe the holiday on their own, setting different dates state by state.

In the 1860s, Mrs. Sarah J. Hale, editor of Codey’s Lady’s Book, mounted a vigorous campaign for a national Thanksgiving Day to be on the same date each year, coast to coast. This gained presidential attention, and subsequently, on October 3 of 1863, Abraham Lincoln proclaimed the last Thursday of November as a National Day of Thanksgiving.

We first celebrated the holiday together as a nation on November 26, 1863. For the next seven decades, each US President issued his own proclamation confirming the date. Then, in 1939, Franklin D. Roosevelt re-set the day to be November’s third Thursday.

But, in 1941, a resolution was made to change it to the fourth Thursday of November, and it has remained thus ever since.

A Feast of Ideas!

We scoured the archives for our best Thanksgiving recipes, helpful hints, trivia, blogs, and more, and put them all in one spot so you won’t have to dig!