January 2027 calendar printable — six rows, or five if you start on Monday

The generator below is on January 2027 already. Print it, or take the Letter or A4 PDF. This month has more geometry worth knowing about than most, and all of it is computed here rather than described in general terms.

Layout Day numbers — uncheck for an undated grid

An undated sheet has six rows and no dates at all — print it once and reuse it for any month of any year.

Months per page

Two, three, four, six or twelve months on one sheet, arranged to suit the paper: two stack on portrait, side by side on landscape.

Month and year

Week starts on Hide weekends (five-day week) Always six week rows

Six rows is the only count every month fits in, so pinning it makes a printed run dimensionally identical.

Text size

Large and Extra large raise the day numbers, weekday names and labels — a large-print calendar for low vision, and for anyone who wants room to write. The paper geometry is unchanged, so it still prints as previewed.

Paper

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On the calendar US federal holidays Observances (Valentine’s, Halloween…) ISO week numbers Notes column Writing lines in each day

Print style

Ink saver Typeface

Only these two: they are the faces the PDF can draw without embedding a font, so the download looks exactly like this.

Title

Letter portrait8.5 × 11 in (216 × 279 mm)6 rowsISO weeks 53–4

January 2027

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1New Year's Day

18Birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr.

The week start changes the sheet, and here it changes it downward

January 2027 has 31 days, opens on a Friday and closes on a Sunday. With the default Sunday-start week the grid needs 6 rows: the 1st sits in the sixth column, five blank cells lead into it, and the 31st is pushed past cell thirty-five. Switch to a Monday start and it drops to 5 rows — the 1st moves left into the fifth column and the whole month fits. A Saturday start puts it back to 6.

This is the only month with a page here where changing the week start removes a row rather than adding one, and it is worth a moment before printing. Six rows means each day box loses about a sixth of its height — around 1.7 inches down to 1.4 on portrait Letter — so if you want room to write, the Monday start is not a stylistic choice this month, it is a third more space per day. If you would rather keep Sunday first, landscape gives the six rows more width to compensate.

The first days of the month belong to last year

Under ISO 8601 a week belongs to the year containing its Thursday. The week that holds January 1 2027 has its Thursday on December 31 2026, so those opening days are still week 53 of 2026 — the extra week that only long years have. ISO week 1 of 2027 does not begin until Monday the 4th, and the month finishes in week 4.

Almost every calendar that prints week numbers gets this wrong by counting forward from January 1 instead of walking to the week’s Thursday, and the error only shows up in years where the boundary falls mid-week — which is exactly this one. Switch the ISO column on above to see it: the first row is numbered 53, not 1. The December 2026 page covers the other half of the same week.

10 weekend days, 21 weekdays

A 31-day month beginning on a Friday produces 5 Fridays, 5 Saturdays and 5 Sundays — 10 weekend days in total, the highest count of any month on this site, leaving 21 weekdays. Two of those 21 are federal holidays, so a working January is 19 days for anyone who takes them. If you are planning a quarter on this sheet, that is the number to start from.

Two federal holidays, one fixed and one positional

New Year's Day is fixed to January 1 and lands on a Friday in 2027, so it is observed on the day itself: Friday, January 1, 2027. Had it fallen on a Saturday the federal day off would have moved back to the Friday of the previous December, which is the kind of cross-month case a hard-coded monthly table cannot express at all.

Birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr. is the third Monday in January — Monday, January 18, 2027 — and being positional it can never need a shift. It has been a federal holiday since 1986, and this site computes it from that rule rather than storing it, so a calendar for 1980 correctly shows no MLK Day while one for 2035 shows it in the right place.

United States federal holidays and observances falling in January 2027
Date	Day	Name	Type	Day off taken
January 1	Friday	New Year's Day	Federal holiday	Same day
January 18	Monday	Birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr.	Federal holiday	Same day

Printing this month

Decide the week start first, because it decides the row count. For the roomiest sheet, use a Monday start on portrait Letter at 100% scale and turn on three writing lines per box. For a Sunday start, either accept 6 shorter rows or move to landscape. If you are printing January alongside February, note that February prints at five rows whichever start you choose, so a Monday-start pair gives you two sheets with identical box heights. The printing guide has the paper and scale settings.