Juneteenth 2025

Juneteenth 2025 is on Thursday, June 19, 2025 (in 30 days).  Calendar for 2025

Juneteenth is a United States federal holiday, celebrated annually on June 19. It commemorates the final end of slavery in the US on June 19, 1865, when Union Army general Gordon Granger proclaimed freedom for slaves in Galveston, Texas, the last state of the Confederacy with institutional slavery. The Word Juneteenth is a portmanteau (a blend of words in which parts of multiple words are combined to form a new word) of June and nineteenth.

Juneteenth was made a federal holiday by President Joe Biden on June 17, 2021. It is the 11th federal holiday in the US and the first new federal holiday in nearly 40 years after Martin Luther King Day was designated in 1983.

Further reading:

• Juneteenth on Wikipedia
• Juneteenth: The History of a Holiday (New York Times)
• 2025 calendar showing all US federal holidays

Juneteenth 2026 is on Friday, June 19, 2026 (in 395 days).  Calendar for 2026

Dates of Juneteenth 2025 and surrounding years as downloadable image file