Printable calendar 2026 — a 53-week year, laid out honestly

All twelve months of 2026 are on the sheet below. Print it, take the PDF, or switch the layout control to Month and work through the year page by page. The figures on this page are computed for 2026 by the same engine that draws the grid, which is why they include the awkward ones most calendars leave out.

One holiday moves this year, and it moves backwards

Across the whole of 2026, the federal observed-day rule fires exactly 1 time. Independence Day falls on Saturday, July 4, 2026, the only federal holiday of the year to land on a weekend, so under 5 U.S.C. § 6103(b) the day off is taken on the preceding Friday, Friday, July 3, 2026. The holiday itself does not move; only the day off does, and the calendar prints both, with the moved one labelled “(observed)”.

Backwards shifts are the ones people are least ready for. A Sunday holiday moving forwards to Monday reads as an extra long weekend and everybody notices; a Saturday holiday moving back to Friday takes a working day out of the week before, which is easy to plan straight through. If this sheet is going on a wall for scheduling, that is the row to look at twice. Compare it with 2027, where the same rule fires three times.

53 Thursdays, and one ISO week more than usual

2026 is not a leap year of 365 days, which is fifty-two whole weeks plus one day over. That single spare day is why the year opens on a Thursday and closes on a Thursday, and why it contains 53 Thursdays where every other weekday occurs fifty-two times.

It is also why 2026 has 53 ISO weeks rather than 52. Under ISO 8601 a week belongs to the year holding its Thursday, so a year that both starts and ends on a Thursday claims one more week than usual. The extra week sits at the end, and it does not stop on December 31: it runs into the first days of January, which is why January 2027 opens numbered 53 rather than 1. If your reporting is built on fifty-two week buckets, this is the year it quietly gains one.

February 2026 is the four-row February

Row counts for 2026 split cleanly. With a Sunday-start week, 2 months need six rows — May and August — and with a Monday start it is 3: March, August, November. Everything else fits in five.

February is the interesting one. It has 28 days and begins on a Sunday, so with a Sunday-start week it occupies 4 rows in raw geometry: four whole weeks, no borrowed cells from January, none from March. Switch to a Monday start and that becomes 5. The printed sheet uses five either way, because a four-row month printed at four-row cell height has boxes that match no other sheet in the set. The table below shows both numbers — the honest answer to “how many rows does a month need” is four, five or six, not five or six.

Easter, and an equinox that lands on the day before

Easter Sunday 2026 is Sunday, April 5, 2026, computed by the Gregorian computus rather than looked up — the Sunday after the first ecclesiastical full moon on or after 21 March, which makes it exact rather than approximate. Good Friday is two days earlier and is marked in the observance layer, because although about a dozen states treat it as a holiday, the federal list does not.

The September equinox is the figure to read carefully. It is computed for September 23 at approximately 00:05 UTC, accurate to roughly a minute — and five minutes past midnight UTC is the evening of the previous day everywhere in the United States. So a US wall calendar marks September 22, and this site says which frame of reference it is quoting instead of asserting a single date and hoping. The September page works through it.

Printing the year on one sheet

Twelve months on a single page is a reference calendar. It is the right thing for checking a weekday or counting a lead time, and the wrong thing for writing on: at Letter size the individual day boxes are a couple of millimetres across. Landscape and Tabloid both help. To write in the boxes, print month by month instead — and check each month’s row count first, because a six-row month and a five-row month printed side by side will not have matching box heights. The printing guide covers scale, margins and browser headers.