The TrashDay Holiday Delay Report 2026
Holidays wreck collection schedules — but not everywhere, and not the same way. Here is what published city and hauler rules say is actually happening across the 877 cities on TrashDay, dated and re-verified city by city.
The headline numbers
The other 625 published cities haven't posted holiday rules we can cite — they're counted, not guessed.
Next up: how 2026 holidays shift pickup
Every remaining date this year that moves routes in published cities, with the dominant rule.
| Date | Holiday | Cities affected | Dominant rule |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wed, Nov 11 | Veterans Day | 15 | Run one day later |
| Thu, Nov 26 | Thanksgiving | 129 | Run one day later |
| Fri, Nov 27 | Day after Thanksgiving | 2 | Run one day later |
| Thu, Dec 24 | Christmas Eve | 3 | Run one day earlier |
| Fri, Dec 25 | Christmas Day | 134 | Run one day later |
| Thu, Dec 31 | New Year's Eve | 1 | Run one day earlier |
Earlier 2026 dates
| Date | Holiday | Cities affected | Dominant rule |
|---|---|---|---|
| Thu, Jan 1 | New Year's Day | 108 | Run one day later |
| Mon, Jan 19 | Martin Luther King Jr. Day | 25 | Run one day later |
| Mon, Feb 16 | Presidents' Day | 15 | Run one day later |
| Mon, Mar 2 | Pulaski Day | 1 | Skipped that week |
| Mon, Mar 30 | 5th-Monday weeks | 1 | Skipped that week |
| Fri, Apr 3 | Good Friday | 2 | Run one day later |
| Mon, Apr 20 | Patriots' Day | 1 | Run one day later |
| Mon, May 25 | Memorial Day | 84 | Run one day later |
| Fri, Jun 19 | Juneteenth | 10 | Run one day later |
| Fri, Jul 3 | Independence Day (observed) | 5 | Run one day later |
| Sat, Jul 4 | Independence Day | 71 | Run one day later |
| Mon, Sep 7 | Labor Day | 88 | Run one day later |
| Mon, Oct 12 | Columbus Day | 5 | Run one day later |
Which rule do cities use?
Across every holiday rule on file for 2026.
| Rule | Rule rows on file | What it means for your bins |
|---|---|---|
| Run one day later | 1107 | Holiday week: every route from the holiday onward slides one weekday later. |
| Skipped that week | 64 | That week's collection is skipped entirely until the next cycle. |
| Run one day earlier | 15 | Routes run a day early ahead of the holiday. |
“Runs one day later” is the national default — the skip-week rule is the rare exception, and a handful of cities run routes early instead.
See a full holiday calendar
Every city on TrashDay carries its own dated holiday table — these are the largest with shifting rules on file.
- Madison County (unincorporated), AL holiday schedule
- Allen, TX holiday schedule
- Syracuse, NY holiday schedule
- Columbus, OH holiday schedule
- Akron, OH holiday schedule
- Broken Arrow, OK holiday schedule
- Mt. Lebanon, PA holiday schedule
- Fort Worth, TX holiday schedule
- Lubbock, TX holiday schedule
- Frisco, TX holiday schedule
- McKinney, TX holiday schedule
- Midland, TX holiday schedule
- New Braunfels, TX holiday schedule
- Omaha, NE holiday schedule
- Tyler, TX holiday schedule
- Conroe, TX holiday schedule
- Emigration Canyon, UT holiday schedule
- Kearns, UT holiday schedule
- Salt Lake City, UT holiday schedule
- West Valley City, UT holiday schedule
- West Jordan, UT holiday schedule
- Provo, UT holiday schedule
- Chesapeake, VA holiday schedule
- Richmond, VA holiday schedule
- Spokane, WA holiday schedule
- Rochester, NY holiday schedule
- Minneapolis, MN holiday schedule
- Madison, AL holiday schedule
- Hialeah, FL holiday schedule
- Chandler, AZ holiday schedule
- Santa Ana, CA holiday schedule
- Chula Vista, CA holiday schedule
- Lancaster, CA holiday schedule
- Roseville, CA holiday schedule
- Sunnyvale, CA holiday schedule
- Berkeley, CA holiday schedule
- Hartford, CT holiday schedule
- Washington, DC holiday schedule
- Jacksonville, FL holiday schedule
- Fort Lauderdale, FL holiday schedule
- Lexington-Fayette, KY holiday schedule
- Coral Springs, FL holiday schedule
- West Palm Beach, FL holiday schedule
- Pompano Beach, FL holiday schedule
- Davie, FL holiday schedule
- Atlanta, GA holiday schedule
- Chicago, IL holiday schedule
- Rockford, IL holiday schedule
- Elgin, IL holiday schedule
- South Bend, IN holiday schedule
- Kansas City, KS holiday schedule
- Louisville, KY holiday schedule
- Green Bay, WI holiday schedule
Want the dates automatically? Every qualifying city page has a printable calendar and an .ics feed — start from the collection-day lookup.
How this report is built
No surveys, no estimates — only rules cities and haulers publish.
Each city page on TrashDay is built from the municipality's or hauler's own published schedule, with the verification date on the page. This report aggregates those holiday rules for 2026: a city counts as “shifting” only if a published rule moves a route (one day later, earlier, or skipped). Where a rule names a standard holiday without a posted date — “Thanksgiving: runs one day later” — the date comes from the standard US observance calendar, and city pages mark those dates as derived. Cities that publish no holiday rules are excluded from the percentages and counted separately.