Astronomical
Maya Long Count
Mesoamerican · GMT correlation
A place-value count of days from the Maya creation date (11 August 3114 BCE): kʼin (day), winal (20), tun (360), kʼatun (7,200), bʼakʼtun (144,000). The much-discussed 2012 was simply 13.0.0.0.0.
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In UTC at 02:02 on October 27, 2026, this calendar read 13.0.14.0.18. The reading above is live, in your own time zone.
At a glance
- Type
- A continuous day-count with interlocking rounds
- Origin
- The Maya civilization of Mesoamerica
- Year
- A 365-day Haabʼ runs alongside the continuous count of days
- Months
- The Haabʼ has 18 of 20 days, plus 5 (the Wayebʼ)
- Week
- No week; a 260-day sacred round (the Tzolkʼin)
- Leap rule
- None — the Haabʼ drifts against the solar year
- Counts from
- A mythic creation in 3114 BCE (GMT correlation)
- Where it’s used
- Historical; still kept by some Maya communities
- How it’s worked out here
- Days since the creation date, under the GMT correlation that most scholars use
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