Explore any calendar year
Check whether a year is a leap year, how many days it contains, its first weekday, ISO week count and next matching calendar.
Year calendar facts
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How calendar years differ
Year length and the weekday of January 1 determine the layout of an entire calendar. Start with the features used to compare two calendar years.
Leap-year rules
Most years divisible by four contain February 29, but century years have an additional test. See the Gregorian leap-year rule with examples.
Matching calendars
A future year can place every date on the same weekday. Learn how to find years with the same calendar.
Calculate and interpret years
Year reference guides
How to compare two years
Compare length, weekday alignment, weeks and dates across any two calendar years.
Leap years: rules and examples
Use the Gregorian rule to identify past and future leap years.
Years with the same calendar
Find years whose dates fall on the same weekdays.
Decades, centuries and millennia explained
Understand how named spans of years are numbered.
How to calculate years between two dates
Calculate complete elapsed years without off-by-one birthday errors.
How old is someone born in a given year?
Calculate age from a birth date or estimate it from a birth year.