How Many Days Until Valentine's Day?
Valentine's Day is February 14 every year — a fixed date, so the only question is how many days you have left to plan. The live counter below shows the exact number of days until the next February 14, counted from today on your device.
When Is Valentine's Day?
Valentine's Day never moves: it is February 14, the feast day of St. Valentine. Because the date is fixed, the weekday rotates — and that weekday drives real-world logistics. A weekend Valentine's Day means fierce competition for restaurant reservations, while a midweek one shifts celebrations to the nearest Friday or Saturday for many couples. Florists and card shops plan their entire year around this one fixed point.
The countdown is straightforward fixed-date arithmetic: whole calendar days from today until the upcoming February 14, midnight to midnight. On February 15 the counter rolls over and begins counting toward next year, giving the long-range planners nearly a full year of runway.
From a Roman Martyr to a Billion Cards
The holiday is named for St. Valentine, a third-century Roman martyr — or possibly two of them, as early records mention more than one Valentine executed on February 14. The romantic association came much later: Geoffrey Chaucer's 14th-century poetry linked the feast day to the season when birds choose their mates, and by the 1400s lovers were exchanging written "valentines." The oldest surviving one was sent from the Tower of London in 1415.
Mass-produced valentine cards took off in the 1840s, when Esther Howland began manufacturing elaborate lace-trimmed cards in Massachusetts. Today the holiday is a commercial giant — greeting cards, roses, chocolate, and jewelry — and it has spawned offshoots like Galentine's Day on February 13, a celebration of friendship popularized by the TV show Parks and Recreation.
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Counting toward a date that is not a holiday? Use the date calculator to add or subtract any number of days, or jump straight to a future date with pages like 30 days from today and 90 days from today.
Frequently Asked Questions
Valentine's Day is February 14 every year — the date never changes, only the weekday. The live counter at the top of this page shows how many days remain until the next February 14.
It counts whole calendar days from today to the upcoming February 14, midnight to midnight, using your device's clock. Once the day has passed, the countdown automatically retargets next year's date.
St. Valentine was a third-century Roman martyr — early sources may actually describe two different men of that name, both executed on February 14. The romantic meaning of his feast day developed in the Middle Ages, helped along by Chaucer's poetry about birds pairing off on St. Valentine's Day.