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Jewish Calendar 2026–2027
Every Jewish holiday, Shabbat and Hebrew date, month by month, with candle-lighting times for your city. Choose a month, read about each holiday, and use our free tools for your Bar or Bat Mitzvah date, your Hebrew birthday and the Yahrzeit of your loved ones.
The Jewish holidays
Shabbat
The weekly day of rest, from Friday at sundown to Saturday night: a gift of peace, family and prayer.
Rosh Hashanah
The Jewish New Year: two days of prayer, the sound of the shofar and sweet wishes for a good year.
Yom Kippur
The Day of Atonement, the holiest day of the Jewish year: a day of fasting, prayer and forgiveness.
Sukkot
The Feast of Tabernacles: seven days of joy living in a sukkah, a hut that recalls the journey through the desert.
Shemini Atzeret and Simchat Torah
The closing days of the fall holidays, when the yearly reading of the Torah ends and begins again with dancing.
Hanukkah
The Festival of Lights: eight nights of candles remembering the rededication of the Temple and the miracle of the oil.
Tu BiShvat
The New Year of the Trees: a day to thank God for nature, eat fruits of the Land of Israel and plant trees.
Purim
The most joyful day of the year, remembering how Queen Esther saved the Jewish people in ancient Persia.
Passover (Pesach)
The festival of freedom: eight days remembering the Exodus from Egypt, beginning with the family Seder.
Shavuot
The Feast of Weeks: the day God gave the Torah at Mount Sinai, seven weeks after Passover.
Lag BaOmer
The 33rd day of the Omer: a joyful break in a season of mourning, celebrated with bonfires and outings.
Yom HaZikaron and Yom HaAtzmaut
Israel's Memorial Day for fallen soldiers and victims of terror, followed by Independence Day.
Yom HaShoah
Holocaust Remembrance Day: remembering the six million Jews murdered in the Holocaust.
Tisha B'Av
The saddest day of the Jewish year, a fast mourning the destruction of both Temples in Jerusalem.
Minor fast days
Short fasts from dawn to nightfall that recall events in the history of Jerusalem and the Jewish people.
Rosh Chodesh
The beginning of each Hebrew month, at the new moon: a small monthly holiday.