Days Until Mother's Day 💐
How many days until Mother’s Day? Mother’s Day floats — it’s the second Sunday of May, between May 8 and May 14 — and this countdown computes the exact Sunday automatically and counts down live.
💐 Days until Mother's Day
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The second Sunday of May — by design
US Mother’s Day is the second Sunday of May, which can fall anywhere from May 8 to May 14. The date traces to Anna Jarvis, who held the first service in Grafton, West Virginia on May 10, 1908, in memory of her mother; President Wilson made the second Sunday of May official in 1914. Jarvis later spent decades fighting the holiday’s commercialization — a battle she conclusively lost.
Because the definition is “sunday,” there’s no day off to observe: it’s always on a weekend by construction. The calculator above resolves the rule for the next occurrence.
The busiest brunch of the year
Mother’s Day is reliably the single busiest restaurant day of the American year — busier than Valentine’s Day — so brunch and dinner reservations at popular spots are best made two to three weeks ahead. It’s also the top flower-giving holiday ahead of Valentine’s Day; order deliveries at least a week early for the Sunday itself. Shipping a gift? Count backwards from the Sunday the counter shows: standard shipping needs the order in about a week ahead, and a card mailed cross-country needs 3–5 mailing days.
Counting toward a date of your own instead? The days from today calculator adds any number of days to today, and the days between dates calculator measures the gap between any two dates — deadlines, anniversaries or trips.