Today
Tuesday October 27 2026
- Day of the year
- 300/ 365
- Week
- 442,026
- Days left
- 6582%
- Moon
- 97%Waning gibbous
Today is Tuesday, October 27, 2026. It is day 300 of 2026, a year of 365 days: 65 remain, and 82% of the year has gone. Under ISO 8601 this date falls in week 44.
What's celebrated on this date
No United Nations international day falls on this date.
Coming up
- October 31World Cities Day
- November 5World Tsunami Awareness Day
- November 10World Science Day for Peace and Development
Saints and name days
Saints whose feast falls on this date, most widely known first.
- Evaristus5th Pope of the Catholic Church from c. 99 to c. 107
- FrumentiusBishop of Aksum
- Pontius Pilate's wifeancient Roman woman and saint
- Kalébking of Aksum from 514 to 542
- Dioscorus II of AlexandriaCoptic Orthodox Pope of Alexandria, Egypt
Sources : Wikidata (P841) · CC0 1.0
Astronomy
New York
- Sunrise
- 07:21
- Sunset
- 17:59
- Length of day
- 10h 38m−2 min vs yesterday
- Solar noon
- 12:40
Times shown for America/New_York
Season
Autumn
began on September 22, 2026
Next season
Winter — 55 days, December 21, 2026 (December solstice)
Public holidays — United States
Not a public holiday in the United States.
Next public holiday : Veterans Day — November 11, 2026
National holidays only. Regions, provinces and Länder add their own.
Moon
Waning gibbous
Illumination : 97%
Moon age : 17.0 days
- Next full moon
- November 24, 2026
- Next new moon
- November 9, 2026
Astrology
Today's zodiac sign
Scorpio
until November 22, 2026 — Sagittarius
Zodiac dates are an astrological convention, not the Sun's actual position among the constellations. The astronomy above is measured; this is not.
On this day in history
1275
Traditional founding of the city of Amsterdam. Wikipedia
1553
Condemned as a heretic, Michael Servetus is burned at the stake just outside Geneva. Wikipedia
1682
Philadelphia is founded in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Wikipedia
1795
The United States and Spain sign the Treaty of Madrid, which establishes the boundaries between Spanish colonies and the U.S. Wikipedia
1810
United States annexes the former Spanish colony of West Florida. Wikipedia
1962
Major Rudolf Anderson of the United States Air Force becomes the only direct human casualty of the Cuban Missile Crisis when his U-2 reconnaissance airplane is shot down over Cuba by a Soviet-supplied surface-to-air missile. Wikipedia
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1979
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines gains its independence from the United Kingdom. Wikipedia
1991
Turkmenistan achieves independence from the Soviet Union. Wikipedia
2017
Catalonia declares independence from Spain. Wikipedia
2019
Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant founder and leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi kills himself and three children by detonating a suicide vest during the U.S. military Barisha raid in northwestern Syria. Wikipedia
Sources : Wikipedia (en) · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Data imported on 2026-08-26
Births and deaths
Born on this day October 27
- 1156Raymond VI, Count of Toulouse (died 1222)
- 1401Catherine of Valois, Queen consort of England (died 1437)
- 1782Niccolò Paganini, Italian violinist and composer (died 1840)
- 1858Theodore Roosevelt, American colonel and politician, 26th President of the United States, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1919)
- 1914Dylan Thomas, Welsh poet and playwright (died 1953)
- 1923Roy Lichtenstein, American painter and sculptor (died 1997)
- 1932Jean-Pierre Cassel, French actor (died 2007)
- 1932Sylvia Plath, American poet, novelist, and short story writer (died 1963)
Died on this day October 27
- 939Æthelstan, English kingaged 44 years
- 1272Hugh IV, Duke of Burgundy (born 1213)aged 59 years
- 1449Ulugh Beg, Persian astronomer, mathematician and sultan (born 1394)aged 55 years
- 1553Michael Servetus, Spanish physician and theologian (born 1511)aged 42 years
- 1980John Hasbrouck Van Vleck, American physicist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1899)aged 81 years
- 1990Ugo Tognazzi, Italian actor, director, and screenwriter (born 1922)aged 68 years
- 2010Néstor Kirchner, Argentinian lawyer and politician, 51st President of Argentina (born 1950)aged 60 years
- 2023Li Keqiang, premier of China (born 1955)aged 68 years
Sources : Wikipedia (en) · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Data imported on 2026-08-26
The day in words
In New York the sun rises at 07:21 and sets at 17:59, giving 10h 38m of daylight — 2 minutes less than yesterday. It has been autumn since September 22, 2026; winter opens in 55 days, on December 21, 2026 (December solstice).
The moon is waning gibbous, 97% illuminated. The next full moon falls on November 24, 2026 and the next new moon on November 9, 2026.
The saints' calendar attaches October 27 to Evaristus, Frumentius and Pontius Pilate's wife.
No United Nations international day falls on October 27. The next one on the calendar is World Cities Day, on October 31.
It is not a public holiday in the United States.
On this day in history: Traditional founding of the city of Amsterdam (1275); Condemned as a heretic, Michael Servetus is burned at the stake just outside Geneva (1553). English Wikipedia records 10 events for this date.
Raymond VI was born on October 27, 1156; Æthelstan died on October 27, 939.
59 days remain until Christmas and 66 until New Year's Day.
In astrology — kept separate from the measured astronomy above, deliberately — October 27 falls under the sign of Scorpio.
Calendar
By the numbers
- 82%
- of the year elapsed
- 59
- until Christmas
- 66
- until New Year
- 490
- until the next 29 February
2026 — Common year (365 days)
Work with dates
Sources
Every block on this page names where its data comes from. Nothing here is generated when the source is silent.
- United Nations — International Days— What's celebrated today
- Wikidata (P841)— Saints and name days · CC0 1.0
- Wikipedia (en)— On this day in history · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Data imported on 2026-08-26