Religious & Cultural
Korean (Dangi)
Lunisolar · years counted from Dangun, 2333 BCE
Korea’s traditional lunisolar calendar, sharing its lunar months with the Chinese but counting years in the Dangi era — from the legendary founding of Gojoseon by Dangun in 2333 BCE, so it runs 2,333 years ahead of the Common Era. Your browser supplies the lunar month and day, but numbers the year the Gregorian way; the Dangi count shown here is converted from it.
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In UTC at 02:02 on October 27, 2026, this calendar read Ninth Month 17, 4359 Dangi. The reading above is live, in your own time zone.
At a glance
- Type
- Lunisolar
- Origin
- Korean tradition — the Chinese lunar months, reckoned for Korea’s meridian
- Year
- 12 or 13 lunar months (353–385 days)
- Months
- 12, or 13 in a leap year, each starting at the new moon
- Week
- 7 days, in modern use
- Leap rule
- A leap month, as in the Chinese calendar
- Counts from
- Dangun’s legendary founding of Gojoseon, 2333 BCE (Dangi)
- Where it’s used
- Seollal, Chuseok and traditional birthdays in Korea; Dangi years were official in South Korea from 1948 to 1961
- How it’s worked out here
- Your browser’s calendar data (ICU) gives the month and day; the Dangi year is converted from the year it relates to
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