Rabjung cycle 17, year 40 · Tibetan royal year 2153
2026 Tibetan Calendar
Male Fire Horse Year
མེ་རྟ་ལོ།
Losar · Tibetan New Year Wednesday, February 18 January 1 – February 17, 2026 still belongs to the Female Wood Snake year
Festivals 2026
- Losar · Tibetan New Year Tibetan Month 1, Day 1Month of Miracles begins (days 1–15)
- Chotrul Düchen Tibetan Month 1, Day 15Day of Miracles · one of the four great Düchen
- Kalachakra Day Tibetan Month 3, Day 15Revelation of the Kalachakra Tantra
- Birth of the Buddha Tibetan Month 4, Day 7
- Saga Dawa Düchen Tibetan Month 4, Day 15Enlightenment and parinirvana of the Buddha · great Düchen
- Guru Rinpoche's Birthday Tibetan Month 5, Day 1010th day of the Monkey month
- Chökhor Düchen Tibetan Month 6, Day 4First Turning of the Wheel of Dharma · great Düchen
- Conception of the Buddha Tibetan Month 6, Day 15
- Lhabab Düchen Tibetan Month 9, Day 22Descent of the Buddha from the god realm · great Düchen
January
Tibetan Month 11 · Month 12
February
Tibetan Month 12 · Month 1
March
Tibetan Month 1 · Month 2
April
Tibetan Month 2 · Month 3
May
Tibetan Month 3 · Month 4
June
Tibetan Month 4 · Month 5
July
Tibetan Month 5 · Month 6
August
Tibetan Month 6 · Month 7
September
Tibetan Month 7 · Month 8
October
Tibetan Month 8 · Month 9
November
Tibetan Month 9 · Month 10
December
Tibetan Month 10 · Month 11
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Festivals & practice days
Losar, the four great Düchen, Guru Rinpoche's birthday, and the monthly 8th, 10th, 15th, 25th, 29th and 30th.
Daily Tibetan date
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About this calendar
- Computed with the Phugpa system, used by the Nyingma, Gelug and Sakya schools and by the Men-Tsee-Khang almanac, following Svante Janson’s Tibetan Calendar Mathematics.
- Checked day by day against the 1951–2050 Tibetan–Chinese almanac: 36,528 of 36,560 days agree, and on every disagreement that Edward Henning’s Phugpa tables cover, Henning agrees with this calendar.
- When a month is doubled, festivals are kept in the first one and the second is the leap month. When a date is doubled, festivals fall on the first; when a date is skipped, its observance moves to the day before. Losar is the first day of the first month.
- Practice schedules differ between lineages and centres; please follow your teacher and your centre.