Calendar

2026 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	2026 MMXXVI
Ab urbe condita	2779
Armenian calendar	1475 ԹՎ ՌՆՀԵ
Assyrian calendar	6776
Bahá'í calendar	182–183
Balinese saka calendar	1947–1948
Bengali calendar	1433
Berber calendar	2976
British Regnal year	4 Cha. 3 – 5 Cha. 3
Buddhist calendar	2570
Burmese calendar	1388
Byzantine calendar	7534–7535
Chinese calendar	乙巳年 (Wood Snake) 4722 or 4662     — to — 丙午年 (Fire Horse) 4723 or 4663
Coptic calendar	1742–1743
Discordian calendar	3192
Ethiopian calendar	2018–2019
Hebrew calendar	5786–5787
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	2082–2083
- Shaka Samvat	1947–1948
- Kali Yuga	5126–5127
Holocene calendar	12026
Igbo calendar	1026–1027
Iranian calendar	1404–1405
Islamic calendar	1447–1448
Japanese calendar	Reiwa 8 (令和８年)
Javanese calendar	1959–1960
Juche calendar	115
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar	4359
Minguo calendar	ROC 115 民國115年
Nanakshahi calendar	558
Thai solar calendar	2569
Tibetan calendar	阴木蛇年 (female Wood-Snake) 2152 or 1771 or 999     — to — 阳火马年 (male Fire-Horse) 2153 or 1772 or 1000
Unix time	1767225600 – 1798761599

A calendar is a tool for organizing days. People use calendars to say when something happened, and for planning things that have not happened yet. The calendar gives the days names and numbers, called calendar dates. The dates are usually made based on how things in the sky seem to move. The year and month are based on motions of the Sun and moon. By knowing what day something happened or will happen, people have an easier life. Since the beginning of history, knowing when the seasons would start for crops was very important for farmers.

Calendar systems have a beginning time or era. The calendar era is often a religion-based event, such as the birth of Jesus, but it may be a political event such as a coronation or the founding of a state. Dates that are counted from the coronation are called "regnal".

The three principal calendars most used today are the Gregorian, Hebrew, and Islamic calendars. Other calendar systems from many different parts of the world are also used.

Basis

Calendars are based on three natural things:

1. The Earth turns all the way around its axis.
2. The Moon goes all the way around the Earth.
3. The Earth goes all the way around the Sun.

The Earth turns all the way around its axis about 24 hours. It is called the Solar Day. Days of most calendars are strongly based on the Solar Day.

The Moon turns all the way around the Earth about 29 days, 12 hours, 44 minutes and 2 seconds. Months of some calendars are still strongly based on the Moon. These are called Lunar calendars, which lasts about 354-355 days. Solar calendars ignore the moon, and depend entirely on the Sun.

The Earth goes all the way around the Sun in about 365 days, 5 hours, 48 minutes and 46 seconds. This is called the Solar year. Years of most calendars are strongly based on the Solar year.

Related pages

• Anno Domini (AD)
• Christian calendar
• Common Era (CE)
• Friday (Muslim)
• Saturday (Jewish)
• Sunday (Christian)
• Gregorian calendar (Christian)
• Hebrew calendar (Jewish)
• Islamic calendar (Muslim)

Other websites

• Calendar for many years, for many countries
• Calendar -Citizendium