Religious & Cultural
Hebrew
Lunisolar · in use since antiquity
A lunisolar calendar of 12 or 13 months, with a leap month (Adar I) inserted seven times every 19 years to keep Passover in spring. Days begin at sunset, and the year counts from the traditional date of Creation. The date above follows that boundary whenever this page knows where you are, so it turns over in the evening rather than at midnight; without a location there is no sunset to compute, and it falls back to midnight and says so.
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In UTC at 01:53 on October 27, 2026, this calendar read 16 Heshvan 5787 (counting the day from midnight). The reading above is live, in your own time zone.
At a glance
- Type
- Lunisolar
- Origin
- Jewish tradition, fixed in its present form by the medieval period
- Year
- 12 or 13 lunar months (353–385 days)
- Months
- 12, or 13 in a leap year
- Week
- 7 days, ending on Shabbat
- Day
- Sunset to sunset
- Leap rule
- A 13th month seven times in each 19-year (Metonic) cycle
- Counts from
- A calculated date of Creation (Anno Mundi)
- Where it’s used
- Jewish religious life; a civil calendar in Israel
- How it’s worked out here
- Your browser’s own calendar data (ICU), in your time zone, turned at your local sunset when the page knows where you are
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