2026 and 2027 Monthly Calendars
Every month has its own printable page with the full grid, that month's US holidays and planning notes.
Choose a month below to open a ready-to-print calendar.
2026 Monthly Calendars
2027 Monthly Calendars
Why Print a Calendar in 2026?
Digital calendars are excellent at reminding you about the next thing. They are far worse at showing you the
shape of a month. A printed calendar on a wall, a fridge or a desk stays permanently visible, which is
why households, classrooms and small teams still rely on paper even when everyone carries a phone.
Research into planning behaviour consistently points the same way: commitments you can see are the ones you
keep. A wall calendar turns an abstract month into eleven visible free evenings and four visible busy ones. It
also works for everyone in a household at once — no shared accounts, no app to install, no notification to miss.
Where printed calendars work best
- Family command centres — one month on the fridge showing school events, practices, shifts and appointments for everyone. Our guide to building a family calendar everyone actually uses covers what belongs on it.
- Classrooms — assignment due dates, tests and holidays where every student can see them.
- Small teams and shift work — a printed rota beats a spreadsheet nobody opens.
- Project and content planning — deadlines and publishing dates laid out across the full month.
- Personal goals — habit tracking, workout schedules, medication reminders and budgets.
Should the Week Start on Sunday or Monday?
In the United States the week is almost always printed Sunday to Saturday, which is why our calendars default
that way. Most of Europe, and the international ISO 8601 standard used by payroll and project software, treats
Monday as the first day of the week instead.
The practical difference is where the weekend sits. A Sunday start splits Saturday and Sunday to opposite ends
of the row; a Monday start keeps them together at the end, which many people find easier to read when planning
work. Use the Week starts menu above the calendar to switch between the two — the printed and downloaded
versions follow whichever you choose.
Week numbers
If your workplace refers to weeks by number ("week 32", "W32"), that numbering almost always follows ISO 8601:
weeks run Monday to Sunday, and week 1 is the week containing the first Thursday of January. Every month page on
this site lists that month's exact week numbers with their date ranges.
Printing Tips That Actually Matter
Choose landscape
A month is seven columns wide. Portrait squeezes each day to around an inch; landscape gives roughly 50%
more width per box — the difference between a calendar you can write on and one you can only look at.
Turn on background graphics
Browsers strip background colours by default, which removes the coloured header row and holiday
highlights. Enable "Background graphics" (Chrome, Edge) or "Print backgrounds" (Firefox, Safari) in the print
dialog. Leave it off deliberately if you want to save ink — our layouts stay readable in plain black.
Fit to page, minimum margins
If the right-hand column is clipped, set scale to "Fit to page width" and margins to minimum. That also
maximises the writing space in every box.
Use heavier paper for wall calendars
Anything that will be written on daily for a month benefits from 24 lb / 90 gsm paper or above. Matte
finish takes pen and pencil far better than glossy photo paper.
Full walkthrough with fixes for cut-off edges and stray blank pages:
how to print a calendar at home.
US Federal Holidays in 2026
All federal holidays are marked automatically on every calendar. Here are the official dates for 2026,
including the weekday each one falls on.
| Date | Day | Holiday | Type |
|---|
| January 1, 2026 | Thursday | New Year's Day | Federal holiday |
| January 19, 2026 | Monday | Martin Luther King Jr. Day | Federal holiday |
| February 16, 2026 | Monday | Presidents' Day | Federal holiday |
| May 25, 2026 | Monday | Memorial Day | Federal holiday |
| June 19, 2026 | Friday | Juneteenth | Federal holiday |
| July 4, 2026 | Saturday | Independence Day (observed Friday, July 3) | Federal holiday |
| September 7, 2026 | Monday | Labor Day | Federal holiday |
| October 12, 2026 | Monday | Columbus Day | Federal holiday |
| November 11, 2026 | Wednesday | Veterans Day | Federal holiday |
| November 26, 2026 | Thursday | Thanksgiving Day | Federal holiday |
| December 25, 2026 | Friday | Christmas Day | Federal holiday |
Looking further ahead? See the complete 2027 holiday calendar or the
full 2026 holidays list with observances.