
Calendar
Yearly calendar with all months at a glance - holidays and moon phases
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2026 Holidays at a Glance
Common year - 365 days
US federal holidays
- Jan 1: New Year's Day
- Jan 19: Martin Luther King Jr. Day
- Feb 16: Presidents' Day
- May 25: Memorial Day
- Jul 4: Independence Day
- Sep 7: Labor Day
- Oct 12: Columbus Day
- Nov 11: Veterans Day
- Nov 26: Thanksgiving
- Dec 25: Christmas Day
🎉 Fun Facts
- •📅 Friday the 13th Frequency: Every calendar year has at least one Friday the 13th, and at most three - the longest possible gap between Friday the 13ths is 14 months (426 days), and any month starting on a Sunday will have a Friday the 13th.
- •🗓️ The Calendar Repeat Cycle: There are only 14 possible calendar configurations (7 for common years starting on each day of the week, 7 for leap years) - meaning every year is identical to some past year, and 2026's calendar is exactly the same as 1999, 2010, and will repeat in 2037.
- •⏰ The Lost 11 Days: When Britain switched from the Julian to Gregorian calendar in September 1752, they skipped 11 days - going directly from September 2 to September 14 - causing riots from people who believed their lives were being "shortened."
- •🌍 New Year's Not Universal: While most of the world celebrates January 1, the Chinese New Year (Jan 21-Feb 20), Islamic New Year (moves 11 days earlier each year), Jewish New Year (Rosh Hashanah, Sept/Oct), and Ethiopian New Year (Sept 11) all fall on completely different dates.
- •📊 October/December Name Paradox: October means "8th month" and December means "10th month" in Latin, but they're the 10th and 12th months - this happened because the Roman calendar originally started in March, making October the 8th and December the 10th until January and February were added later.
Holidays & Special Days
- •🦃 Thanksgiving Math: US Thanksgiving is always the 4th Thursday in November - this means it can fall on any date from November 22-28, and happens on the 22nd only once every 6-7 years (last: 2018, next: 2029).
- •🐰 Easter's Complex Calculation: Easter's date is calculated as "the first Sunday after the first full moon after the spring equinox" - this formula was established in 325 AD and can place Easter anywhere from March 22 to April 25.
- •🎅 Christmas Day Distribution: Christmas Day cycles through all 7 days of the week every 28 years (in the Gregorian calendar) - Christmas 2026 falls on Friday, and won't fall on Friday again until 2031.
- •🗓️ Most Common Birthday: In the US, September 9 is statistically the most common birthday (conception around New Year's), while December 25 is the least common (doctors don't schedule births on Christmas).
- •🕯️ Hanukkah's Wandering Date: Hanukkah can begin anywhere from late November to late December on the Gregorian calendar because it's based on the Hebrew calendar (25th of Kislev) - it's called the "Hebrew calendar drift."
- •🌙 Ramadan Shifts Backward: Islamic holidays move ~11 days earlier each year on the Gregorian calendar because the Islamic calendar is purely lunar (354 days) - Ramadan cycles through all seasons every 33 years.
- •📅 Pi Day: March 14 (3/14) is celebrated as Pi Day in countries using MM/DD format - at 1:59 PM, it's 3.14159, matching pi to five decimal places (discovered by physicist Larry Shaw in 1988).
- •🔢 Palindrome Dates: February 2, 2020 (02/02/2020) was a rare 8-digit palindrome that read the same forward and backward in MM/DD/YYYY format - the next one is December 2, 2021 (12/02/2021), and after that, not until March 2, 2030 (03/02/2030).