Sukkot 2026: Our Holiday Hours and a Lock Check for Meals Outside

Sukkot, the Jewish harvest festival, begins at sundown on Friday, September 25, 2026. The first two days, Saturday and Sunday, are full holiday days, and our team is taking them off, so BH Locksmith Metro Detroit is closed on Saturday, September 26 and Sunday, September 27. We are back on Monday, September 28 at 9:00 AM. Below are our holiday hours, a little about the holiday, and a short lock check for the week.

Sukkot Holiday Hours

• Friday, September 25: open our regular Friday hours, 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM. The holiday begins at sundown.
• Saturday, September 26: closed. This is the first day of Sukkot, and it is also Shabbat.
• Sunday, September 27: closed for the second day of Sukkot. We are usually open 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM on Sundays, so please note the change.
• Monday, September 28: back to our regular hours, starting at 9:00 AM.

Our regular weekly schedule is always listed on our hours page. If anyone is in danger while we are closed, please call 911.

What Is Sukkot?

Sukkot is the Jewish harvest festival. It begins on the fifteenth day of the Hebrew month of Tishrei and lasts seven days. Through the week, families eat their meals in a sukkah, a small temporary hut built outdoors with a roof of branches or leaves, as a reminder of the huts the Israelites lived in during their years in the desert.

For Metro Detroit, candle lighting is at 7:06 PM on Friday, September 25, and the first two days of the holiday end with havdalah at 8:03 PM on Sunday, September 27. These times are for Oak Park, from Hebcal.

A few things you may notice this week:

• The sukkah. Small huts go up in backyards, on porches and in driveways. The walls can be wood, canvas or panels, and the roof is made of branches, bamboo or palm fronds, loose enough to see the sky through.
• Meals outside. Families and friends eat together in the sukkah through the week, weather permitting, which means a lot of trips between the kitchen and the yard.
• The harvest. Many families hang fruit, gourds and paper chains from the roof of the sukkah, a nod to the autumn harvest the holiday celebrates.
• The greeting. Chag Sameach means a happy holiday, and Happy Sukkot works just as well.

The dates above are for 2026. Sukkot moves each year with the Hebrew calendar, so the dates on your calendar will be different next year.

A Short Lock Check for a Week of Meals Outside

A week of meals in the backyard means the back door, the patio door and the yard gate get far more use than usual, often late in the evening. None of this takes more than a few minutes, and most of it you can do yourself.

• Think about who still holds a key. A guest who stayed over for the holiday, a relative who borrowed a key for the week, a contractor, a set that went missing. If you cannot account for every copy, a rekey changes the lock so the old keys stop working, without replacing the hardware. Our rekey vs. change locks guide explains the difference.
• Lock the back door last thing at night. After a late meal outside, the door you carried the dishes through is the one most often left on the latch. Make locking it part of clearing the table, and if the deadbolt only throws when you push, pull or lift the door, it is worth a closer look.
• Check the sliding patio door. A sliding door that opens and closes all week should latch every time. If the latch is worn or the door lifts in its track, a bar or a cut dowel laid in the track is a simple extra for the night.
• Keep the spare key off the doormat. With guests coming and going, it is tempting to leave a key under the mat or in a flowerpot. Those are the first places anyone checks. A trusted neighbor or a lockbox is a better home for a spare.

See You Monday

From our team to yours, Chag Sameach, and a happy Sukkot to everyone celebrating across Metro Detroit. We are closed Saturday, September 26 and Sunday, September 27, and we will be back on Monday, September 28 at 9:00 AM.