☼ The Wheel of the Year ☽
Four turning points of the solar year · choose a season to locate it across all three calendars.
Dates are approximate Northern Hemisphere seasonal markers (not exact astronomical predictions). The three calendar year-start dates are unchanged.
International Fixed
13 months × 28 days · Sunday-first weeks
Year Day and Leap Day are outside the seven-day week.
February-First
12 ordinary months · year begins February 1
Weekdays and month lengths remain exactly the same as the U.S. calendar.
Standard American
January 1–December 31 · Sunday-first weeks
Conventional Gregorian calendar used in the United States.
How your three calendars line up
Year labels: The year shown above is the Gregorian year. The February-first year labeled 2026, for example, runs from February 1, 2026 to January 31, 2027. The standard and fixed calendars both run January–December.
Fixed calendar convention: Sol comes between June and July. Leap Day follows June 28 in leap years, and Year Day follows December 28. Neither is assigned a weekday, keeping each fixed-calendar month exactly four Sunday–Saturday weeks. The fixed calendar dates are aligned to January 1 of the Gregorian year.
Wheel of the Year: The four seasonal symbols are displayed at approximate equinox and solstice dates in every calendar. They are shared Earth dates, not additional days or new calendar boundaries.