Today’s date is Wednesday, November 11, 2026

Today’s date in every format

• Month/day/year (US)11/11/2026Copy
• Day/month/year11/11/2026Copy
• ISO 8601 (year-month-day)2026-11-11Copy
• Written out (US)November 11, 2026Copy
• Written out (day first)11 November 2026Copy
• With the weekdayWednesday, November 11, 2026Copy
• With an ordinalNovember 11th, 2026Copy
• Short year (US)11/11/26Copy
• ISO week date2026-W46-3Copy
• Ordinal date (year-day)2026-315Copy

The copy buttons copy the date exactly as shown. Numeric dates are ambiguous across borders: 11/11/2026 is month first in the US and day first almost everywhere else.

Writing today’s date on a check or a form

On a US check, the date line takes the date the check is written, in any clear form: 11/11/2026 or Nov 11, 2026 both work. Under the Uniform Commercial Code a check may be antedated or postdated (UCC § 3-113), and a bank is not obliged to pay a check presented more than six months after its date (UCC § 4-404), so write the real date. On forms, follow the box layout: MM/DD/YYYY boxes want 11/11/2026, and DD/MM/YYYY boxes want 11/11/2026.

Today at a glance

Day of the week

Wednesday

Year

2026

Month

November

Quarter

Q4

Day of the year

315 of 365

Days left this year

50

Year elapsed

86%

ISO 8601 week

Week 46 of 53

US week (Sunday start)

Week 46

Yesterday

Tue, Nov 10, 2026

Tomorrow

Thu, Nov 12, 2026

Leap year

No

The ISO week runs from Monday, November 9, 2026 to Sunday, November 15, 2026. The US week runs from Sunday, November 8, 2026 to Saturday, November 14, 2026. The two numbers can differ by one, and in some years by more around New Year; the week number page explains both systems. To count forward from today, use days from today.

Where it is a different date right now

For most of the day, the world is on two dates at once. These places in other time zones are on a different calendar day from you at this moment, with their local time:

A new date starts first at UTC+14 in Kiribati’s Line Islands and last at UTC−12, so the same calendar date exists somewhere on Earth for about 50 hours. The boundary between the two dates in the Pacific is the International Date Line. It was established in 1884 and roughly follows the 180° meridian, but it has no legal international status: it zigzags around island groups and national borders, because each country chooses its own date (NOAA). Cross it heading west and the date jumps forward one day; heading east, it goes back one.

Today in other calendars

Converted from today’s Gregorian date by your browser’s Unicode CLDR calendar data. Religious observances follow the rules of each community; the U.S. Naval Observatory’s calendar overview explains how the lunar and lunisolar calendars work.

Upcoming US federal holidays

The eleven legal public holidays in 5 U.S.C. 6103. When one falls on a Saturday, most federal employees get the Friday before off; on a Sunday, the Monday after, as the Office of Personnel Management publishes each year. States, schools and employers set their own days off. All holidays are on the year calendar.

Why the date changes at different times around the world

The date changes at local midnight, and local midnight sweeps around the planet with the Earth’s rotation. Each time zone sets its clocks a whole number of hours (in a few places, a half or quarter hour) ahead of or behind Coordinated Universal Time, UTC, so midnight arrives in Tokyo nine hours before it reaches London and fourteen hours before it reaches New York in winter.

That is why a deadline “by midnight on the 15th” needs a time zone, and why a message sent on Monday evening in California lands on Tuesday afternoon in Sydney. Daylight saving time adds a seasonal twist: when New York moves its clocks forward in March, its midnight comes an hour earlier relative to UTC until clocks go back in November. The time page shows your zone’s offset and its next clock change, and the time zone converter lines up any two places.

Time zones and their history are recorded in the IANA Time Zone Database, which your phone, your computer and this site all use to turn UTC into local time (IANA).

How your phone or computer knows the date

Your device keeps a hardware clock that runs even when it is off, but the clock drifts, so operating systems correct it over the internet. Windows, macOS and Linux synchronize periodically with a time server using the Network Time Protocol, NTP, normally in the background without anyone noticing (NIST). NTP is specified in RFC 5905; a client asks a server for the time, measures how long the answer took, and corrects for the delay.

At the top of the chain are national time laboratories. The U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology runs stratum-1 time servers linked directly to UTC(NIST), its realization of Coordinated Universal Time, and answers NTP requests on port 123. The clock gives your device the instant in UTC; the date you see comes from applying your time zone’s rules to that instant.

This page does the same: your browser supplies the time zone, and we compare your device clock with our server’s clock when the page loads. If they disagree by more than two seconds we say so under the clock and show the corrected time.

What to do if your device shows the wrong date

1. Check the time zone first. A date that is wrong only in the evening or the early morning almost always means the wrong time zone. Compare the place named under the date above with where you are.
2. Turn on automatic date and time. On iPhone it is under Settings, General, Date & Time; on most Android phones under Settings, System, Date & time; on Windows under Settings, Time & language; on a Mac under System Settings, General, Date & Time. Turn on the automatic time zone too, if your device offers it.
3. Sync now and restart. Windows has a “Sync now” button in the same settings page. A restart makes most devices fetch the time again.
4. If the date resets after every shutdown, a desktop computer’s small motherboard battery that keeps the clock running may be flat.
5. Check this page again. When your device and our server agree to within two seconds, the clock check under the date says so.

How the Gregorian calendar became everyone’s calendar

The date above is on the Gregorian calendar, the internationally accepted civil calendar. It replaced the Julian calendar, which Julius Caesar introduced in 45 BC with a simple rule: a leap day every fourth year. That made the average year about 11 minutes too long (Encyclopedia Virginia), and over the centuries the March equinox drifted away from March 21, the date the church used to calculate Easter (U.S. Naval Observatory).

Pope Gregory XIII’s reform of 1582 fixed both problems. Ten days were dropped, so Thursday, October 4, 1582, was followed by Friday, October 15, and century years stopped being leap years unless divisible by 400; the weekday sequence was not interrupted (USNO). Spain, Portugal, Poland and most of Italy changed that October; Protestant countries held out.

Britain and its American colonies switched under the Calendar (New Style) Act 1750. The year 1752 began on January 1 instead of March 25, and Wednesday, September 2, 1752, was followed by Thursday, September 14, eleven days being omitted (legislation.gov.uk). Before that, colonial writers often gave dates between January 1 and March 25 with two years, such as February 11, 1731/32 (Encyclopedia Virginia). The leap year page has the full rule, and the day of the week calculator handles dates on both sides of the change.

Questions about today’s date

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• Week number ISO 8601 and US week numbers for any year
• Calendar Printable year calendar with week numbers
• Julian date Day of the year, YYDDD codes and Julian Day
• Time zone converter Convert a time between any two zones
• Leap year The leap year rule, next leap year, leap seconds
• Date formats How to write the date, by country and use