This tool is for general informational purposes only and is NOT legal advice. Court rules vary by jurisdiction — always verify deadlines with the applicable court rules or an attorney.
Court Date Calculator started as a spreadsheet. One of us spent years as a litigation paralegal, and the routine of counting court days by hand — finger on the desk calendar, crossing out weekends, double-checking whether the courthouse was closed for Columbus Day — never stopped feeling error-prone. A single miscounted day can mean a late filing, and in a busy office that risk shows up several times a week. We built a small calculator to do the counting reliably, kept reaching for it, and eventually decided to clean it up and put it online for anyone who needs the same thing.
The goal is narrow on purpose: take a starting date and a number of days, and return an honest count — either straight calendar days or court days that skip weekends and the eleven U.S. federal holidays. We deliberately do not try to be a docketing system or to guess your jurisdiction’s service-by-mail extensions, because getting those subtly wrong is worse than not offering them. We would rather give you a clean, transparent base count that shows its work, so you can apply your own local rule on top of it.
Everything runs in your browser. We do not ask you to create an account, and the dates you enter are never sent to a server or stored by us — which matters when you are working on client matters. The tool is free, and it stays free.
We are a two-person team with backgrounds in litigation support and web development. We are not attorneys, and nothing on this site is legal advice or creates an attorney-client relationship. We maintain the calculator, update the holiday logic each year, and read every message that comes in.
Spot a counting bug, a wrong holiday, or have a feature you wish the tool had? Email us at [email protected]. Corrections to the date logic go to the top of our list.