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Baháʼí (Badíʿ)
19 months of 19 days · from Naw-Rúz (approx.)
Nineteen months of nineteen days (361), plus four or five intercalary Ayyám-i-Há days before the final month of fasting. The year opens at Naw-Rúz, the spring equinox; the era counts from 1844, and its years are written BE, the Bahá’í Era. Its days begin at sunset too, and the date above turns over at sunset whenever this page knows where you are — falling back to midnight, and saying so, when it does not.
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In UTC at 02:02 on October 27, 2026, this calendar read 12 ʿIlm 183 BE (counting the day from midnight). The reading above is live, in your own time zone.
At a glance
- Type
- Solar
- Origin
- The Báb’s calendar, adopted by Baháʼu’lláh; one worldwide reckoning since 2015
- Year
- 365 or 366 days, opening at Naw-Rúz, the March equinox
- Months
- 19, of 19 days each
- Week
- 7 days, beginning on Saturday
- Day
- Sunset to sunset
- Leap rule
- Four or five days of Ayyám-i-Há before the last month, as the equinoxes fall
- Counts from
- The Báb’s declaration, 1844 (BE, the Baháʼí Era)
- Where it’s used
- The Baháʼí Faith worldwide, for its holy days and Feasts
- How it’s worked out here
- Naw-Rúz from the March equinox as Tehran sees it, by a close approximation, with the published date used where the two are known to differ, turned at your local sunset when the page knows where you are
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