Countdown to
Cyber Monday
The Monday the deals move online
Today is Cyber Monday.
28 days until Cyber Monday, on Monday, November 30, 2026.
Cyber Monday is Monday, November 30, 2026. Happens the Monday after the fourth Thursday of November.
Cyber Monday is the day the holiday shopping rush moves online. Falling on the Monday after US Thanksgiving, it caps a four-day retail weekend and has grown into the busiest online shopping day of the year in the United States. This page counts down to it, live and to the second.
Where Cyber Monday came from
The name is barely old enough to remember dial-up. It was coined in 2005 by Shop.org, part of the National Retail Federation, which had noticed a reliable spike in online orders on the Monday after Thanksgiving. The explanation at the time was practical: home broadband was still catching up, so many shoppers waited until they were back at faster office connections to buy the gifts they had browsed over the long weekend.
Retailers seized on the label almost immediately. Within a few years Cyber Monday had its own marketing calendar, its own wave of email campaigns, and its own place alongside Black Friday and Small Business Saturday in the Thanksgiving-weekend lineup. What began as an observation about network speeds became a fixture of the retail year.
How Cyber Monday is observed
For most people the day looks quiet from the outside — no crowds, no doorbuster lines, just a laptop or a phone. The action is in inboxes and shopping carts: limited-time codes, online-only discounts, and deals that refresh through the day. Electronics, toys, clothing, and travel tend to lead the markdowns.
Two shifts define the modern version. The first is mobile — more than half of Cyber Monday’s sales now happen on phones rather than desktops. The second is timing: the heaviest spending arrives in the evening, once dinner is done and people settle in to finish their lists from the couch. For all the technology involved, it remains what it always was — a deadline that turns idle browsing into buying.
Shopping it well
A little planning goes a long way. Because the best Cyber Monday prices are deliberately fleeting, the shoppers who come out ahead tend to decide what they want in advance, note the usual price, and move quickly when the discount appears. A countdown helps: it turns a vague “sometime after Thanksgiving” into a date you can actually prepare for.
💻 Fun facts about Cyber Monday
- The term "Cyber Monday" was coined in 2005 in a press release from Shop.org, a division of the National Retail Federation, which named the Monday after Thanksgiving as a rising online-shopping day.
- The name grew out of an early-2000s quirk: home internet was often slower than office broadband, so people waited until they were back at work after the holiday to order what they had browsed over the weekend.
- Cyber Monday is regularly the largest online shopping day of the year in the United States, outselling Black Friday for online-only purchases.
- U.S. shoppers spent more than $14 billion online on Cyber Monday 2025, a record according to Adobe Analytics.
- Shopping has shifted heavily to mobile, with phones now driving more than half of Cyber Monday's online sales.
Upcoming Cyber Monday dates
| Date | Days away |
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| 28 days | |
| 392 days | |
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| 1,120 days | |
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How people mark Cyber Monday
- Comparing prices and building shopping carts in advance
- Hunting online-only discount codes and flash deals
- Buying electronics, toys, and gifts from a laptop or phone
- Setting price alerts and wishlists ahead of time
- Finishing holiday gift lists in the evening rush
Frequently asked
What day is Cyber Monday?
Cyber Monday is always the Monday after US Thanksgiving, which falls on the fourth Thursday of November, so it lands between November 26 and December 2.
When did Cyber Monday start?
The term was coined in 2005 by Shop.org, part of the National Retail Federation, after data showed online orders spiking on the Monday after Thanksgiving. Retailers turned it into a dedicated day of online promotions within a few years.
How is Cyber Monday different from Black Friday?
Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving, began as an in-store shopping event, while Cyber Monday was built around online deals. The two have blurred as both now run largely online, but Cyber Monday remains the bigger day for internet-only sales.
How many days until Cyber Monday?
The countdown at the top of this page updates live in your own timezone. Once this year's Cyber Monday passes, it rolls forward to next year's date automatically.