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The calendar
The appointed times are given as days of Hebrew months, so they move against the ordinary calendar. These dates are worked out rather than looked up.
Today
4 Tishrei 5787
Tuesday, 15 September 2026
Next appointed time
The day of atonement
21 September 2026, Monday
In 6 days
The year, laid out
A wheel, because that is the shape it already had
How to read it: the shaded month is the one we are in now, the dark pin is today's exact day, and every dot is a feast — tap one to open it.
The mosaic floors at Beit Alfa and Hammat Tiberias set the months of the year in a wheel in the middle of the pavement. Drawing the calendar this way is not a borrowed metaphor; it is the form this material was already given.
Months run clockwise from Nisan at the top, because the Torah counts from Nisan even though the year number turns in the autumn.
The biblical calendar counts months by the moon and seasons by the sun, so a Hebrew month is about twenty nine and a half days and the year has to be corrected to stop the spring festivals drifting into winter. Seven years in every nineteen get a thirteenth month.
Two of the appointed times are not on this list. The Sabbath is weekly, so it has no annual date, and the wave sheaf is defined by counting from a disputed starting point rather than by a fixed day of a month.
Every festival below begins at sunset on the evening before the date shown, because in this calendar a day starts in the evening. Sunset times depend on where you are, so this site gives the day rather than the hour.
Hebrew year 5787
8 dated appointed times
| Appointed time | Hebrew date | Falls on | When |
|---|---|---|---|
| The day of trumpetsיוֹם תְּרוּעָה | The first day of the seventh month | 12 September 2026 · Saturday | 3 days ago |
| The day of atonementיוֹם הַכִּפֻּרִים | The tenth day of the seventh month | 21 September 2026 · Monday | In 6 days |
| Tabernaclesסֻכּוֹת | The fifteenth to the twenty second day of the seventh month | 26 September to 3 October 2026 · begins Saturday | In 11 days |
| The feast of dedicationחֲנֻכָּה | The twenty fifth day of the ninth month | 5 December to 12 December 2026 · begins Saturday | In 3 months |
| Purimפּוּרִים | The fourteenth and fifteenth days of the twelfth month | 23 March to 24 March 2027 · begins Tuesday | In 6 months |
| Passoverפֶּסַח | The fourteenth day of the first month, at evening | 21 April 2027 · Wednesday | In 7 months |
| Unleavened breadחַג הַמַּצּוֹת | The fifteenth to the twenty first day of the first month | 22 April to 28 April 2027 · begins Thursday | In 7 months |
| Weeksשָׁבוּעוֹת | The fiftieth day, counted from the wave sheaf | 11 June 2027 · Friday | In 9 months |
Hebrew year 5788
8 dated appointed times
| Appointed time | Hebrew date | Falls on | When |
|---|---|---|---|
| The day of trumpetsיוֹם תְּרוּעָה | The first day of the seventh month | 2 October 2027 · Saturday | In 13 months |
| The day of atonementיוֹם הַכִּפֻּרִים | The tenth day of the seventh month | 11 October 2027 · Monday | In 13 months |
| Tabernaclesסֻכּוֹת | The fifteenth to the twenty second day of the seventh month | 16 October to 23 October 2027 · begins Saturday | In 13 months |
| The feast of dedicationחֲנֻכָּה | The twenty fifth day of the ninth month | 25 December 2027 to 1 January 2028 · begins Saturday | In 16 months |
| Purimפּוּרִים | The fourteenth and fifteenth days of the twelfth month | 12 March to 13 March 2028 · begins Sunday | In 18 months |
| Passoverפֶּסַח | The fourteenth day of the first month, at evening | 10 April 2028 · Monday | In 19 months |
| Unleavened breadחַג הַמַּצּוֹת | The fifteenth to the twenty first day of the first month | 11 April to 17 April 2028 · begins Tuesday | In 19 months |
| Weeksשָׁבוּעוֹת | The fiftieth day, counted from the wave sheaf | 31 May 2028 · Wednesday | In 21 months |
Dates are computed with the fixed arithmetic Hebrew calendar, the same system used since late antiquity, rather than from a stored table. Before that calendar was fixed, a month began when witnesses reported seeing the new moon, which is why dates could not be known far ahead. See the new moon for how that works.