Free holiday hours sign template — plus closed signs for Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year's

Every date your hours differ from normal, one per line in date order — the early closes, the days you're closed, and the day regular hours resume — plus how to reach you meanwhile (phone, email, website). Keep the dates that don't change off the sign; a shorter sign gets read.

Two weeks before the first changed day, and the Google Business Profile special hours at the same time — people plan Thanksgiving-week and Christmas-week errands early. Take the sign down the day regular hours resume, or the January customer reads December's hours.

Open your Business Profile (search your business name on Google while signed in), select Edit profile, then Hours, then Edit next to Special hours. Confirm Google's suggested holiday dates or add your own, enter the hours for each date or check Closed, and save. Special hours only show when the profile's status is “Open with main hours”, and they're for closures of up to six days in a row — closed for seven or more, mark the business Temporarily closed and switch it back when you reopen.

Yes — Google and your website are checked by different people, and your website is where someone orders or books while you're closed. A line at the top of the home page and the full list on the contact page is enough.

Say so on the sign (“Open Thanksgiving, 8 am – 1 pm”) and set it as special hours on Google with the actual times — Google suggests confirming your hours for official holidays, and a listing that says nothing leaves customers guessing.

The template prints at US Letter size (8.5 × 11 inches), portrait, which reads from a few feet away on a door. For a window seen from the street, print it at “Fit to page” on tabloid (11 × 17) paper, or take the PDF to a print shop.

Yes. The sign, the closed-for-the-holidays notice, the three single-holiday closed signs and the open / closed door sign all download free as a Word document and a PDF — no email address, no sign-up. Edit the Word file in Word or any app that opens Word documents, or print the PDF and write the hours in by hand.

Yes — the closed for Thanksgiving sign on this page has the date (Thursday, November 26, 2026), a line for the day you reopen and a line for how to reach you if it's urgent. Word and PDF, Letter size, portrait. There's a matching closed for Christmas sign and a closed for New Year's sign, each with the long weekend's dates bracketed so you can shorten them.

Four things, in this order: that you're closed, when you reopen (in the biggest letters), how to reach you if it can't wait, and where to order or book meanwhile — your website. For a holiday, add the holiday's name and a line of thanks; for the everyday open / closed door sign, the Closed side says when you're back and the Open side carries your regular hours.

Download both pages — the Open sign and the Closed sign — and either print them on two sheets and tape them back to back, or print them as a two-page document with your printer's double-sided option and slip the sheet into a plastic sleeve. Both are Letter size, portrait, so they line up.