# St. Patrick's Day 2027

- Date: March 17, 2027, 12:00 AM (UTC) — 2027-03-17T00:00:00.000Z
- Category: Holidays
- Page: https://www.watchisup.com/holidays/st-patricks-day

Live countdown to St. Patrick's Day 2027: how many days until March 17th?

St. Patrick's Day falls on **17 March**, a fixed date marking the traditional death date of Ireland's patron saint. The countdown above follows your own time zone and runs to midnight, as 17 March 2027 begins.

**Patrick was not Irish.** He was born in Roman Britain around the late fourth century, taken to Ireland as a slave at sixteen, escaped, and returned years later as a missionary. Almost everything else about him comes from two short texts he wrote himself.

**The shamrock story is later.** The tale that he used a three-leafed shamrock to explain the Trinity does not appear in writing until the eighteenth century, more than a thousand years after his death. The snakes he supposedly drove out never existed either: post-glacial Ireland had none.

**The parade is an American invention.** The first recorded parades were held in the American colonies — Boston in 1737, New York in 1762 — by Irish soldiers and emigrants. Ireland did not hold a large state parade until the twentieth century, and until 1961 Irish pubs were legally closed on 17 March, the day being a religious observance.

**Green is also a late arrival.** The colour associated with Saint Patrick was originally blue; green took over through its association with Irish nationalism in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

The day is a public holiday in the Republic of Ireland, Northern Ireland and Montserrat, and widely marked across the Irish diaspora.

Parades and pints both end up on camera. **Photo & camera mode** puts this countdown on your own photo, filter included, and gives you the file as a story, a square or a landscape image — nothing leaves your device. For any other date, create your own timer.