14 days from today

The date and what lies in between

“Today” is your device’s date, so the answer is right in your time zone. The page itself was generated on the date in the caption; your browser recounts the table when it opens. If a program or a challenge counts today as day 1, its last day is one day before the date shown.

How 14 days are counted

Day 1 is tomorrow; day 14 is the answer. Fourteen days are exactly two weeks, so the answer always falls on the same weekday as today. Weekends and holidays count as ordinary days.

14 days or 14 business days?

The difference is almost a week:

Returns, cooling-off periods and many notices are counted in calendar days; shipping and processing times are usually quoted in business days.

Common 14-day periods

• Returns and cooling-off periods: 14 days from delivery is common for online orders; start from the delivery date in the date calculator.
• Isolation, trial and waiting periods: often stated as 14 days; count from the day the rule names.
• Shipping estimates: “10 to 14 business days” is about three weeks of calendar time.

Fourteen days keep the weekday, so a deadline set on a Monday ends on a Monday. That makes it easy to plan around weekends, but a federal holiday can still fall on the last day; the table above shows any holiday in the span. When a store or a carrier says “14 business days”, expect almost three weeks of calendar time instead.

Checking the date by hand

Count whole weeks first, then the days left over: 14 days are 2 weeks. On a wall calendar, move 2 rows down from today. That is quicker and less error-prone than counting single days. The table above also lists the weekdays and the federal holidays you pass, which matters when a deadline has to fall on a business day or an office is closed.

To count days left to a known date, use days between dates; for a longer span, 90 days from today. To track hours over the two weeks, the time card calculator.