3 closures Chick-fil-A states nationally: every Sunday, Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day.
Chick-fil-A holiday hours start from a rule no other chain on this site has: every restaurant shuts on Sunday, and has done since 1946. The company's own help page adds two national closures, Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day, and puts the ordinary weekday span at 6:30 in the morning until 9 at night, Monday to Saturday. Anything finer belongs to the Operator who runs your restaurant, so the app is the only honest check.
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Rule out Sunday before anything else
Every restaurant is closed and delivery does not survive the day either. The company dates the decision to 1946, when S. Truett Cathy opened his first restaurant in Hapeville, Georgia. No Operator can trade through it.
Take Thanksgiving and Christmas as settled
The chain's help page on restaurant hours states that all restaurants are closed on Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day. That is a national sentence from the company, which is rare in this sector, and it does not depend on who runs your building.
Treat 6:30 to 9 as a shape, not a promise
The same page gives 6:30 a.m. to 9 p.m., Monday to Saturday, then adds that hours may differ on holidays. A mall unit, an airport counter or a campus site can sit well inside that span on an ordinary Tuesday.
Open the app for the day you actually care about
The Chick-fil-A App and the Locations page carry operating times for one address. Ten seconds there beats any table, and the entry updates when the restaurant changes its plan.
For anything else, phone the restaurant
New Year's Day, Easter, Independence Day and Labor Day get no national statement. The Operator decides, and the restaurant's number sits on the same Locations entry as its times.
If something goes wrong
It was shut on a Sunday
- Cause
- That is the policy rather than a staffing failure
- Fix
- The chain has closed on Sunday since 1946. Mobile ordering and delivery stop with it, and no Operator can override the day.
The app showed hours the restaurant did not keep
- Cause
- Holiday times are entered locally and can lag
- Fix
- Phone the restaurant. Its number sits on the same Locations entry as the times, and the crew knows the day's plan.
One restaurant closed early and another did not
- Cause
- Separate Operators run 2,795 of the 2,863 traditional restaurants
- Fix
- Two restaurants a mile apart can answer to different people. Each sets the shift for its own building.
It was closed on Thanksgiving and nothing warned me
- Cause
- This is a company closure, published on the chain's own help page
- Fix
- Read it as permanent. Christmas Day appears in the same sentence, so plan both.
The mall unit keeps different hours from the free-standing one
- Cause
- Non-traditional sites open when their host building opens
- Fix
- A mall, campus or airport restaurant follows the landlord. The 6:30 a.m. figure describes a free-standing site.
Delivery would not accept a Sunday order
- Cause
- There is no kitchen open to cook it
- Fix
- Chick-fil-A answers this one directly and the answer is no. A third-party courier cannot manufacture an open restaurant.
What’s fixed, and what actually varies
Chick-fil-A publishes more about its closed days than any brand on this site, and almost nothing about its open ones.
Fixed
- Every restaurant is closed on Sunday, and has been since 1946
- All restaurants are closed on Thanksgiving Day, per the company's help page
- All restaurants are closed on Christmas Day, stated in the same place
- 6:30 a.m. to 9 p.m., Monday to Saturday, is the published standard span
- The company itself warns that hours may differ on holidays
Varies
- Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve closing times, which no national page covers
- Whether a restaurant opens at all on Easter or Independence Day
- Sites in malls, airports and hospitals, which follow the host building
- Breakfast cut-off, drive-thru span and lobby hours on a shortened day
- Whether mobile ordering stays live after the lobby shuts
Read the entry for the restaurant you mean rather than for the chain. The Locations page shows that restaurant's times for that day, and the same entry carries its phone number. Twenty seconds on the phone settles an odd day better than any published table, because the person answering is the person opening.
How Chick-fil-A compares
Three chains, three positions on what a head office is willing to state.
| Chain | Closed nationally? | Standard span published? | Where the real answer lives |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chick-fil-A | Sunday, Thanksgiving, Christmas Day | 6:30 a.m. to 9 p.m., Mon-Sat | The app or the Locations page |
| McDonald's | Nothing published | No | The restaurant locator in the app |
| Whataburger | Christmas Day, in effect | Open 24/7, 364 days a year | The restaurant's own listing |
Closures are company statements. Daily hours belong to whoever runs the building.
Chick-fil-A gives up a full trading day every week on purpose, which no other brand here does, and it is also one of the few willing to name a holiday closure in writing.
A weekly closure, two named holidays, and silence after that
Most pages in this family end at the same place, which is your own app. This one starts somewhere else, because Chick-fil-A publishes a rule the others do not have.
The Sunday closure is company policy and it is not negotiable at restaurant level. Chick-fil-A dates it to 1946, when S. Truett Cathy opened his first restaurant in Hapeville, Georgia, and describes the purpose as a day to rest, to be with family or to worship. The commercial reading is the striking one: an estate of more than 3,000 restaurants gives up a full trading day every week, and has done so for the entire life of the company, through every change in how Americans buy lunch. Delivery does not survive it either, and the company answers that question in plain words.
Two further closures are stated nationally. On its help page about restaurant hours, checked in September 2026, the company says all restaurants are closed on Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day, and gives 6:30 a.m. to 9 p.m., Monday to Saturday, as the usual operating span. That page also carries the sentence most guides drop, which is that hours may differ on holidays.
After that, nothing. Easter, Memorial Day, Independence Day and Labor Day get no national statement, and neither do the shortened days around Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve. The reason is structural. April 2026 disclosure figures put 2,795 of 2,863 traditional restaurants with franchise Operators against 68 run by Chick-fil-A, Inc. An Operator leases the building and runs the shift, so a closing time on 24 December is a decision taken in one restaurant, by one person, for one address.
Questions people ask
Is Chick-fil-A open on Sunday?
No. Every restaurant closes, and the company traces the decision to 1946 and its founder, S. Truett Cathy. Mobile ordering and delivery stop as well, because no kitchen is running.
Is Chick-fil-A open on Thanksgiving?
No. The chain's own help page states that all restaurants are closed on Thanksgiving Day. Very few chains put a national closure in writing like that.
Is Chick-fil-A open on Christmas Day?
No, and it sits in the same sentence as Thanksgiving on the company's help page. Treat both as fixed points rather than as local decisions.
What time does Chick-fil-A open and close?
The published span runs from 6:30 in the morning until 9 at night, Monday to Saturday. The company adds that hours may differ on holidays, and a restaurant inside a mall or an airport follows its building instead.
What about Easter, New Year's Day or Independence Day?
Nothing national is published for those. An Operator decides, which is why one restaurant can open on Easter while the next stays dark all day.
Who sets a restaurant's hours?
The Operator does. Disclosure figures from April 2026 put 2,795 of 2,863 traditional restaurants in franchise hands, against 68 run by Chick-fil-A, Inc.
Is this page an official Chick-fil-A holiday hours list?
No. It summarises what the company publishes and where it stays silent. Where the two differ, the company's own pages win.
Can this site tell me whether my local Chick-fil-A is open?
No, and nothing here connects to a restaurant. The Chick-fil-A App and the Locations page hold the times for a single address, updated by the people who work there.