Planet Fitness Open On Memorial Day 2026 Hours Closures And Member Options

Planet Fitness Holiday Hours Are Not A Joke

Memorial Day 2026 falls on Monday, May 25th. Planet Fitness as a corporate policy closes its doors on this federal holiday. Most locations, which makes sense because the staff are people too and they get that day off along with their families. That said, you will find individual franchise owners who keep their gyms open with modified hours. The corporate guidelines are clear but each of the roughly 2,400 Planet Fitness locations operates independently when it comes to setting their holiday schedule. There is no single centralized source that lists every gym's hours. If your location does list hours for Memorial Day, you will likely see something in the neighborhood of 7 AM to 12 PM or 9 AM to 12 PM depending on the market. A few locations in high-traffic areas have been known to stay open until 2 PM. Anything beyond that is rare. The standard full-day operating hours of 24 hours a day, 365 days a year for Black Card members simply do not apply on this particular holiday. It is not a loophole. It is a hard closure for the vast majority of clubs. I ran into this exact situation back in 2024 when I drove 40 minutes to my local Planet Fitness on Memorial Day expecting to use the 24/7 access my Black Card was supposed to guarantee. The front desk had a handwritten sign posted on the door that read simply Closed. The app showed the normal hours because it had not been updated by the franchise owner yet. I ended up working out in my driveway for an hour instead. The workaround I found after that experience was checking the specific location page on the Planet Fitness website directly rather than relying on the mobile app. The app pulls from a slightly older data feed sometimes. You have to dig into the actual club's page and look for any small notice banner at the top about holiday adjustments.

Here is the thing most people miss about how this works. Planet Fitness membership billing cycles do not pause or shift because of a holiday closure. If you signed up on the 15th of the month, your next billing date is still the 15th regardless of whether the gym was open that week. Some people assume they can get a prorated credit for a holiday closure and that is generally not how the system handles it. The corporate stance is that you are paying for access, not attendance. The monthly fee covers membership privileges, not a minimum number of visits. This is standard across the budget gym segment and it is not unique to Planet Fitness but it catches people off guard. Another nuance that trips people up involves the PF 30-Day Commitment. If you join right before a holiday closure and then cancel within the first 30 days, some franchise owners have been known to push back on the cancellation, claiming the holiday shouldn't count toward the commitment period. The official policy is that the 30 days are calendar days, not business days. That means a closure still counts as a day on the clock. I learned this after a member at my old gym tried to cancel two weeks into a holiday-heavy month and the manager ran through the math on a whiteboard with them. The member walked away frustrated but the math was correct. Calendar days include holidays. For Black Card members specifically, the hot tub, tanning beds, and total comfort zones will all be unavailable on Memorial Day at closed locations. This is not a partial closure where equipment stays online. It is a full shutdown. Nothing runs. The security system goes into overnight mode and the doors lock. There is no exception for key fob holders on this day unless the franchise owner has deliberately kept the club open.

If you absolutely need to work out on May 25th, 2026, your realistic alternatives are limited. Some commercial gyms like Crunch or 24 Hour Fitness also close on Memorial Day. YMCAs sometimes stay open with holiday hours but their schedules vary wildly by chapter. The most practical option is usually a home workout or finding a local independent gym that operates on a subscription model rather than a contract. Independent boxes tend to have smaller staffs who are more willing to stay open for a federal holiday because the overhead is lower and the community relationship matters more to them. It is a different business model entirely. The downside of the Planet Fitness holiday policy is that it leaves Black Card members in a weird middle ground. You pay more for 24/7 access and then on one specific holiday that access vanishes without any notice on your billing statement. There is no apology email, no credit, nothing. Just a locked door. The corporate communications team does not proactively notify members about holiday closures at the individual club level. The responsibility falls entirely on you to verify hours before you show up. This is a structural weakness in their member experience and it is something the company has acknowledged internally in customer feedback reports but has not meaningfully improved. They rely on the franchise owner to update the online listing themselves. To check your specific location's Memorial Day status for 2026, go to the Planet Fitness club locator, enter your zip code, select your gym, and look for any holiday notices posted on that club's detail page. Call the number listed if you cannot find anything. The phone line may also be unanswered on the holiday but calling a day or two before will give you a definitive answer. This process takes about three minutes and saves you a wasted drive.