Valentine's Day arrives every February 14, the world's holiday of love, from handwritten cards to candlelit dinners. This countdown is to Valentine's Day 2027, ticking down live to February 14.
Valentine's Day is on Sunday, February 14, 2027, which is 246 days away. The live countdown above ticks down to the exact moment, to the second.
The day is named for a third-century Roman martyr, by legend, a priest who performed forbidden weddings for soldiers. The romantic association came a thousand years later, when Chaucer and the poets of courtly love linked mid-February to pairing birds and lovers' notes.
Roughly 145 million Valentine's cards are exchanged in the US alone each year, and that's not counting classroom valentines. Japan flips the tradition: women give chocolate on February 14, and men reciprocate on White Day, March 14.