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The Hebrew calendar is a lunisolar calendar — months follow the moon, but the year is corrected to stay aligned with the solar seasons. That means Jewish holidays fall on fixed Hebrew dates but shift around on the Gregorian (Western) calendar by up to a month year-to-year. This page is a quick reference for clergy, Jewish day schools, observant families, and anyone planning around the Jewish year.

Apollo's Templates calendar generators currently auto-mark US federal holidays and major Christian observances (Easter, Christmas) but don't yet auto-compute Hebrew dates. Use the Yearly Event Calendar or Year at a Glance and write the holidays from the table below into the right Gregorian dates. For exact dates each year, the open-source Hebcal is the standard reference.

Major Jewish holidays at a glance

Rosh Hashanah
Jewish New Year. Two days, civil year begins. Autumn (Sep/Oct).
Yom Kippur
Day of Atonement. The most solemn day. 25-hour fast. 10 days after Rosh Hashanah.
Sukkot
Feast of Tabernacles. 7-day harvest festival, sukkah huts. Begins 5 days after Yom Kippur.
Shemini Atzeret / Simchat Torah
Conclusion of Sukkot. Celebration of completing the Torah reading cycle.
Hanukkah
Festival of Lights. 8 nights of candle-lighting. Falls in late November to late December.
Tu B'Shevat
New Year for Trees. Late January / early February.
Purim
Commemorates rescue from the Persian empire (Book of Esther). Costumes, gifts. Late February / March.
Passover (Pesach)
8-day festival commemorating the Exodus from Egypt. Seder meals on first nights. March / April.
Yom HaShoah
Holocaust Remembrance Day. April.
Yom Ha'atzmaut
Israeli Independence Day. April / May.
Lag B'Omer
33rd day of the Omer counting between Passover and Shavuot. May.
Shavuot
Celebrates the giving of the Torah. 7 weeks after Passover. May / June.
Tisha B'Av
Day of mourning for the destruction of the Temples. Fast day. July / August.

Dates and observance details vary across Reform, Conservative, and Orthodox traditions, especially for second-day observance outside Israel. Consult your community or a dated source like Hebcal for the exact Gregorian date in any given year.

Yearly Event Calendar — fillable, write your dates in
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Yearly Event Calendar
12 fillable monthly pages — write Jewish holiday dates into the right Gregorian dates.
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Christian liturgical year
Liturgical Calendar
Reference for the Christian liturgical year — Advent, Christmas, Lent, Easter, and the seasons of the Church year.
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Frequently asked questions

What is the Hebrew calendar and how does it work?
The Hebrew calendar is a lunisolar calendar — months follow the moon (29 or 30 days each), but the year is corrected to match the solar year by adding a leap month seven times in every 19-year cycle. So Jewish holidays fall on fixed Hebrew dates but shift on the Gregorian (Western) calendar by up to ~30 days year-to-year. The current Hebrew year crosses the secular calendar in autumn.
When does the Jewish year begin?
The civil Jewish New Year (Rosh Hashanah) falls in September or October — typically the first/second day of the Hebrew month Tishrei. The religious year begins in Nisan (March/April) per Exodus 12:2, but the civil year-count and most calendar planning use the Tishrei date. So 'Year 5787' in Hebrew terms begins on Rosh Hashanah in autumn 2026.
Why don't you auto-mark these on the printable calendars?
Apollo's Templates calendar generators currently auto-mark US federal holidays and a handful of popular observances (Easter, Mother's Day, Halloween, etc.). Jewish holiday computation requires the full Hebrew calendar implementation — which we haven't built. For now, this page lists the major dates so you can write them onto a printed Yearly Event Calendar or Year at a Glance manually.
Where can I find the exact Jewish holiday dates each year?
The most reliable source is Hebcal (hebcal.com) — open-source, accurate to the Hebrew calendar, and downloadable as iCal for your phone. Chabad.org also publishes annual calendars. For Orthodox / Conservative observance the dates align across sources; some Reform congregations vary the second-day observance.
What's the difference between the Hebrew calendar and the Jewish religious calendar?
The Hebrew calendar is the dating system (months, years, the lunisolar mechanics). The Jewish religious calendar is what's observed using that system — when the holidays fall, what fast days apply, when the Sabbath rolls week-to-week. They're tightly linked but conceptually distinct, like 'the Gregorian calendar' vs 'the Western liturgical year.'
Do you have any Jewish-specific printable templates?
Not currently. The Yearly Event Calendar and Year at a Glance are the most useful templates for tracking Jewish holidays by hand — print one and write the dates from the table below into the right Gregorian dates. If there's demand for a Jewish holiday calendar generator (with auto-computed Hebrew dates), let us know via the feedback widget on any calendar page.
Updated through May 2026