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More Calendars

Moon phases, eclipses, religious holidays and calendar systems — added to your calendar in one click.

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Overview

More Calendars adds ready-made calendars to your account: the phases of the moon, eclipses, the solstices and equinoxes, the holidays of a dozen religious traditions, the festivals of the Chinese, Vietnamese, Korean and Persian years, and the dates of eighteen calendar systems from the Hebrew, Hijri and Ethiopian calendars to the Mayan Long Count and the French Republican calendar.

Pick the ones you want, choose a color, and they appear in your calendar and on every device you sync with. No third-party calendar subscriptions, no accounts to connect, nothing to install.

🌐 Available in All Languages: More Calendars is fully localized in 79 languages.

📅 What you can add

Settings path: Settings → More Calendars

Sun & Moon

  • Moon Phases — new, first quarter, full and last quarter, to the minute, shown in your own time zone. Choose northern or southern hemisphere so the crescents lean the right way.
  • Named Moons — the traditional name of each full moon, with blue moons marked under both definitions in use. Choose the North American almanac names (Wolf, Harvest, Hunter’s), the English medieval names, the Celtic names, or the Hindu Purnima names.
  • Lunar Perigee and Apogee — when the moon is nearest and farthest. A full moon near perigee is what people call a supermoon.
  • Eclipses — solar and lunar, with the type of each.
  • Solstices and Equinoxes — the astronomical start of each season, to the minute.
  • Solar Terms — the 24 terms of the traditional East Asian agricultural year.
  • Meteor Showers — the peak night of each major annual shower, from the Quadrantids to the Geminids.
  • Sankranti — the moment the Sun enters each sidereal sign, including Makar Sankranti and Vaisakhi, in your own time zone.

Religious Holidays

  • Christian — Easter and everything that moves with it, plus the fixed feasts. Choose Western, Orthodox on the Old Calendar (Christmas on 7 January) or Orthodox on the New Calendar (Christmas on 25 December).
  • Ethiopian Orthodox — Enkutatash, Meskel, Genna, Timkat, Fasika and the fasts of the Tewahedo year, on the Ethiopian calendar.
  • Coptic Orthodox — Nayrouz, the Nativity, Epiphany, Great Lent, the Resurrection and the fasts, on the Coptic calendar.
  • Jewish — festivals and fast days, with the traditional postponement rules. Choose Diaspora or Israel practice.
  • Counting the Omer — the 49 days from Pesach to Shavuot, one entry a day, with Lag BaOmer marked.
  • Daf Yomi — the worldwide page-a-day Talmud cycle: which daf is studied on every day.
  • Islamic — Ramadan, both Eids, Ashura, Mawlid and more. Choose the tabular calendar, Umm al-Qura as used in Saudi Arabia, or the Fiqh Council of North America, whose calendar is also followed in Europe.
  • Shia Observances — Ashura, Arbaeen, Eid al-Ghadir, Eid al-Mubahala and the anniversaries of the Imams, alongside Ramadan and both Eids, with the same three month-start choices.
  • Hindu — Diwali, Holi, Navaratri, Janmashtami, Ganesh Chaturthi and more.
  • Ekadashi, Purnima & Amavasya — the fasting and observance days of every fortnight, with each Ekadashi named.
  • Buddhist — Vesak and the other observances. Choose Theravada or Mahayana.
  • Sikh — the gurpurabs. Choose the Nanakshahi calendar of 2003 or the Bikrami dates restored in 2010.
  • Jain — Mahavir Jayanti, Paryushana or Das Lakshana, Diwali as Mahavira’s nirvana and the rest of the Jain year. Choose the Švētāmbara or Digambara tradition.
  • Zoroastrian — Nowruz, Khordad Sal, the six Gahambars, Zartosht no Diso, Mehregan and Tirgan. Choose the Fasli, Shahenshahi or Kadmi calendar.
  • Bahá’í — the holy days of the Badí’ calendar, whose year begins at the March equinox in Tehran.
  • Wheel of the Year — the eight sabbats, in either hemisphere.

Cultural Festivals

  • Chinese, Vietnamese and Korean Festivals — Lunar New Year, Lantern, Qingming, Dragon Boat, Mid-Autumn and the rest, each on its own country’s reckoning: Tết and Seollal do not always fall on the same day as Chinese New Year.
  • Persian Festivals — Nowruz, Sizdah Bedar, Chaharshanbe Suri, Shab-e Yalda, Mehregan, Tirgan and Sadeh.

Calendar Systems

The month beginnings of the Hebrew, Islamic, Persian, Ethiopian, Coptic, Bahá’í, Indian National (Saka), Bengali, Chinese, Vietnamese, Korean, Mayan, Egyptian and Julian calendars. The Islamic calendar offers the same three month-start choices as the holidays: tabular, Umm al-Qura, or the Fiqh Council of North America.

Date Labels

A small all-day entry on every day showing that day’s date in another system — the Hebrew, Hijri, Persian, Ethiopian, Coptic, Bahá’í, Indian National, Bengali, Hindu lunar, Chinese lunar, Julian, Mayan, Egyptian or French Republican date, the Japanese era year with its rokuyō marker, the ISO week number, the day of the year, or the Julian Day Number. The Islamic date labels offer the same three month-start choices, so the daily date matches the calendar you actually follow.

➕ Adding a calendar

Go to Settings → More Calendars, find the one you want and click Subscribe. Before you do, you can:

  • Pick a color — so it stands out (or blends in) in your calendar.
  • Choose an option, where one is offered — hemisphere, tradition, month-start method and so on. These are real differences in the dates, not just labels, so pick the one your community follows.
  • Choose where it goes — see below.

To remove one, click Remove on the same page.

🔄 Its own calendar, or added to one of yours

The Add to dropdown gives you two choices:

  • A new calendar (the default) — you get a separate calendar you can show and hide on its own. Removing the subscription deletes that calendar.
  • An existing calendar of yours — the dates are added into a calendar you already have. Removing the subscription takes out only those dates; your own events, and any other feed you added to the same calendar, stay exactly as they were.

Adding to an existing calendar is handy if you sync to your phone and would rather not manage another calendar there — and if you already share a calendar with a device, the new dates appear on it immediately without you setting anything else up.

Either way the calendar stays yours: you can add your own events to it, and updating the feed will not disturb them.

🗑 Keeping them current

Each calendar is filled in for a span of years around today. To roll that span forward, click Update my calendars on the More Calendars page.

The Date Labels calendars carry an entry for every day and are filled a year ahead, so they are the ones to refresh most often.

📱 On your phone and other devices

These are ordinary calendars in your account, so they sync over CalDAV like everything else — iOS, Android, macOS, Windows and Linux. See Syncing Calendars, Tasks, and Contacts for how to connect a device.

If you added the dates to a calendar you already sync, they will simply turn up there. If you created a new calendar, remember to give your sync login access to it in Settings → DAV Server.

⚖ Choosing the right option

Many of these calendars offer a choice, because traditions differ. Pick the one your community follows. Most of the choices change the dates themselves; two change only the names.

Choices that change the dates

  • Christian Holidays — Western, Orthodox (Old Calendar) or Orthodox (New Calendar). Both Orthodox options date Easter the same way; they differ on the fixed feasts, so Christmas falls on 7 January under the Old Calendar and 25 December under the New. Ethiopian Orthodox and Coptic Orthodox are calendars of their own, listed separately.
  • Jewish Holidays — Diaspora or Israel. Israel keeps a single day where the Diaspora keeps two for several of the festivals.
  • Islamic Holidays, Shia Observances, Islamic Calendar and Islamic Date — the tabular calendar, Umm al-Qura as used in Saudi Arabia, or the Fiqh Council of North America. The Fiqh Council calendar is the one most mosques in North America and Europe follow.
  • Buddhist Holy Days — Theravada or Mahayana. Vesak is not the same full moon in both.
  • Sikh Gurpurabs — the Nanakshahi calendar of 2003, which fixes the anniversaries to solar dates, or the Bikrami lunar dates restored in 2010.
  • Jain Festivals — Švētāmbara or Digambara. The two keep different annual retreats: Paryushana for eight days ending on Samvatsari, or Das Lakshana for ten.
  • Zoroastrian Holy Days — Fasli, Shahenshahi or Kadmi. Fasli keeps Nowruz at the March equinox; the other two have no leap day, so they fall a day earlier every four years. Most Parsis in India follow Shahenshahi.
  • Lunar Festivals and Lunar Calendar — Chinese, Vietnamese or Korean. Each country reckons the calendar for its own time zone, so Tết and Seollal do not always land on the same day as Chinese New Year.
  • Moon Phases and the Wheel of the Year — northern or southern hemisphere.

Choices that change only the names

  • Hindu Festivals — Amanta or Purnimanta. The dates are the same either way; what changes is the month a dark-fortnight day is named for.
  • Named Moons — the North American almanac names, the English medieval names, the Celtic names, or the Hindu Purnima names, for the same full moons.

Jewish and Islamic observances begin at sunset the evening before the date shown, as they do on any printed calendar.

You can change your mind at any time: remove the calendar and add it again with a different option.

📞 Need Help?

If you have questions about More Calendars, contact our support team at helpdesk@codamail.com. If there is a calendar you would like us to add, tell us.