Walgreens Hours: Today’s Open & Close Times, 24-Hour & Sunday Hours

What Are Walgreens Store Hours? Open and Close Times by Location

Walgreens sets hours store by store, so a late-night location in downtown Chicago looks nothing like a small-town pharmacy in upstate New York. We opened live store pages on walgreens.com on October 13, 2026. The front store, which Walgreens labels Store & Photo, came out like this.

The live open and closed indicator at the top of this page shows our typical weekly pattern. For a store you plan to drive to late at night, confirm it in the Walgreens app or locator first, because the closing time on your corner can sit two hours either side of the typical one.

Walgreens Pharmacy Hours vs Store Hours: Why They Never Match

The most common surprise at Walgreens is walking in at 9 PM to find the shelves open and the pharmacy counter dark. In every sample we read, the pharmacy closed no later than the front store and usually well before it.

• Even the two 24-hour stores keep a closing time for the pharmacy: 10 PM at both of them on weekdays, and in Spartanburg it falls to 6 PM on Saturday and Sunday.
• The five Chicago stores near 60602 closed their pharmacies at 6, 7 or 8 PM while their front stores stayed open until 10 PM or midnight.
• Pharmacy Sunday hours were the shortest of the week at every store we checked that was not open around the clock.

Walgreens Pharmacy Lunch Break: When the Counter Closes Midday

Most Walgreens pharmacies shut for a short meal break so the pharmacist can step away from the counter. The wording on each store page is Pharmacy closed 1:30 to 2 pm for meal break.

• Plano and Ballston Lake list the 1:30 to 2 PM closure for every day of the week, Sunday included.
• In Spartanburg the page attaches the same closure only to Saturday and Sunday, not to Monday through Friday.
• Omaha lists it for a pharmacy that runs 8 AM to 10 PM every day.
• One Chicago store, 342 E Illinois St, shows two breaks instead of one: 11 to 11:30 AM and 6:45 to 7:15 PM.

If you are picking up at lunchtime or at the tail end of the afternoon, aim for 2:15 PM or later. A prescription that is ready can sometimes be taken through the front-store register for certain items, but anything that needs the pharmacist to counsel you has to wait for the counter to reopen.

Is Walgreens Open 24 Hours? How to Find a 24-Hour Walgreens Near You

Yes, some are. Walgreens still runs stores that never close, and its locator has separate filters for a 24-hr store and a 24-hr pharmacy.

• Omaha, Nebraska and Spartanburg, South Carolina both show Open 24 hrs for Store and Photo, every day of the week.
• In the Los Angeles area, the 3201 W 6th St location lists both the store and the pharmacy as open 24 hours, while the other four stores in that drive-thru results list closed overnight.
• Walgreens said in a 2024 press release that about 500 of its 24-hour locations would stay open on Thanksgiving, and about 300 of those had a pharmacy operating.

In a Chicago search around zip 60602 the locator showed 99 stores, and none of the first five was 24-hour. In dense city centers the late stores tend to stop at midnight rather than run all night.

Walgreens Drive-Thru Pharmacy Hours and How to Find a Store With One

Not every Walgreens has a drive-thru window, and the locator has its own filter for it. A store page says whether the drive-thru exists, but none of the pages we read published a separate window schedule.

• The drive-thru pharmacy locator at walgreens.com/storelocator/find.jsp?drive-thru-pharmacy=true returned 99 stores around Los Angeles, with the first five all offering pickup.
• In that list the pharmacies behind the window closed at 9 PM, 9 PM, 9 PM and 7 PM, with one 24-hour location.
• Walgreens help says the store Details view shows hours, phone number and drive-thru pharmacy availability for each location.
• Since we found no separate drive-thru times, plan on the same hours and the same meal break as the pharmacy counter, and call the store if you are close to closing.

Walgreens Sunday and Saturday Hours

Weekends are when pharmacy hours drop the most. The store itself may stay close to its weekday window, but the counter behind it usually shortens.

Three of the four pharmacies closed at 6 PM or earlier on Sunday. Omaha is the exception and shows no weekend change at all, which fits a store that stays open around the clock.

• Ballston Lake in New York cuts the Sunday front store to 9 AM to 6 PM, but Plano in Texas stays at 7 AM to 11 PM.
• Saturday and Sunday lunch closures from 1:30 to 2 PM were listed at every store with a weekend break, so factor that into a weekend pickup.

Is Walgreens Open on Thanksgiving? 2026 Hours and 24-Hour Exceptions

Walgreens closes most of its stores on Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving 2026 is Thursday, November 26, and we found no 2026 announcement yet, so what follows is based on the last two published policies.

• 2024: Walgreens said it would close most locations on Thanksgiving, calling it the second straight year, while about 500 24-hour stores and about 300 pharmacies inside them stayed open.
• 2025: the company's Holiday Hub listed most stores closed on Thanksgiving, with 24-hour locations open for essential pharmacy services.
• Stores that close for the holiday keep their regular posted hours on the day before and on Black Friday, according to the 2024 release.

Walgreens Christmas Eve, Christmas Day and New Year's Hours

Christmas is where Walgreens differs most from its competitors: the company said it would keep every location open on Christmas Day and New Year's Day in 2024.

• Christmas Eve (Thursday, December 24, 2026) and Christmas Day (Friday, December 25): the 2025 Holiday Hub lists stores open, with pharmacy hours that may vary.
• A Walgreens holiday story from the same season said many stores would stay open until midnight on Christmas Eve, with 24-hour locations unchanged.
• New Year's Eve (Thursday, December 31) and New Year's Day (Friday, January 1, 2027): stores open, pharmacy hours may vary, per the same page.

Is Walgreens Open on Easter, Memorial Day, July 4th and Labor Day?

We found no Walgreens closure announced for the other major holidays, so the stores generally run on their usual schedule, with the pharmacy possibly shorter.

These expectations come from the absence of a closure notice, not from a published holiday schedule, so treat them as likely rather than guaranteed. Store pages list holiday hours separately from regular hours once the store has entered them.

Walgreens Near Me Open Now: Checking Before You Drive

A quick check beats a wasted trip, especially after 8 PM when pharmacies begin to close.

• Search the locator by zip code and apply the 24-hr store, 24-hr pharmacy or drive-thru pharmacy filter that fits your need.
• Read the pharmacy line separately from the Store & Photo line on the result, because they often show different closing times.
• Look for the meal-break note in each result before heading out around 1:30 PM.
• The Walgreens customer line is 1-800-925-4733 if you need to confirm hours by phone.