14 days from today

When this is useful

Fourteen calendar days is often used for cooling-off periods, simple response windows and internal reminders. This page counts calendar days, so weekends are included.

Important: Some rules define when the clock starts, whether the deadline moves if it lands on a non-working day, or whether service days are counted. Check the rule that applies to your situation.

Calendar days, not business days

This tool counts calendar days. Fourteen days from today is today plus fourteen, regardless of weekends — so if day fourteen falls on a Saturday, that is still the fourteenth day.

That is the right basis for cooling-off periods and simple response windows, which are usually expressed in calendar days. It is the wrong basis for anything described as "working days".

Where 14-day windows appear

The best-known fourteen-day period in UK consumer law is the distance-selling cooling-off right, which generally runs for fourteen days from delivery. Contracts also use fourteen days for notice to remedy, returns windows and short response deadlines.

Where a period is measured from an event — delivery, receipt of a notice — the start date matters as much as the length. Set the start date to the event date rather than assuming today.

If your deadline is fourteen working days

Fourteen working days is a different date: roughly three calendar weeks. Use the business-day tools on this site for that calculation, because weekends and bank holidays both come out of the count.