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The Calendar of Harptos, from Dungeons & Dragons (anchored)
The Calendar of Harptos, used across Faerûn in Dungeons & Dragons: 12 months of 30 days, each split into three ten-day tendays, with five festivals between them and Shieldmeet every fourth year. Years are counted in Dalereckoning, from the raising of the Standing Stone in the Year of Sunrise. No canon ties Faerûn to our own calendar, so the years here are anchored so that 2026 reads 1492 DR — the present of the fifth edition — and run on from there.
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In UTC at 02:02 on October 27, 2026, this calendar read 26 Marpenoth. The reading above is live, in your own time zone.
At a glance
- Type
- Solar — the Calendar of Harptos
- Origin
- Ed Greenwood’s Forgotten Realms, for Dungeons & Dragons
- Year
- 365 days — twelve months of 30, plus five festivals
- Months
- 12, of 30 days, Hammer to Nightal
- Week
- The tenday — three to a month
- Leap rule
- Shieldmeet, the day after Midsummer, every fourth year
- Counts from
- Dalereckoning, from the raising of the Standing Stone (DR)
- Where it’s used
- Faerûn, in the game and its novels
- How it’s worked out here
- Anchored so 2026 reads 1492 DR, the present of the fifth edition, and run on from there
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