RojThe Kurdish calendar, today
The same calendar as the Roj extension for GNOME, running in your browser. Pick a day to see it in four calendars and the Kurdish days that fall on it.
Kurdish days in your own calendar
Add the 43 Kurdish days to Google Calendar, an iPhone, a Mac or Outlook. A subscription stays up to date when days are added or corrected; a download is a copy you import once.
بۆنە کوردییەکان
Sorani titles, with the history and sources of each day.
Bûyerên Kurdî
Kurmanji titles.
Kurdish events
English titles.
Google Calendar
Google Calendar opens with the calendar ready to add. Or, on a computer, open Settings, Add calendar, From URL and paste the link. It then shows on your phone too.
iPhone and iPad
Tap Apple Calendar on the phone and confirm. Or open Settings, Apps, Calendar, Calendar Accounts, Add Account, Other, Add Subscribed Calendar, and paste the link.
Mac and Outlook
On a Mac, Apple Calendar opens Calendar, or use File, New Calendar Subscription. In Outlook, use Add calendar, Subscribe from web, and paste the link.
Newroz and the two Eids follow other calendars, so they are listed for each year from 2020 to 2060. Eid dates use the arithmetic Hijri calendar and can differ by a day or two from the sighting of the moon.
Every Kurdish day
The days Roj includes, in the order they fall this year. Open one to read what happened and where it comes from.
Convert a date
Type a date in any of the four calendars as year, month and day.
How the Kurdish calendar works
The Kurdish calendar follows the sun. The year begins at Newroz, the March equinox, usually on 21 March. Months 1 to 6 have 31 days, months 7 to 11 have 30, and the last month has 29, or 30 in a leap year: the same lengths as the Persian calendar.
Only the year number differs. In the Kurdish solar numbering, the Kurdish year is the Persian year plus 1321. Counting from the fall of Nineveh in 612 BCE, it is the Persian year plus 1233.
Every date is turned into a Julian Day Number, a plain count of days, so any calendar converts to any other. The engine is tsroj, the same one the extension and the roj command use. The Islamic dates are arithmetic (tabular); where months begin with the sighting of the moon they can differ by a day or two.
Roj on your computer
On GNOME, Roj puts this calendar in the top bar, one click away, with your own events and any .ics calendar. The roj command gives the same answers in a terminal.
roj # today in all four calendars
roj cal --with g # this Kurdish month
roj events --month # this month's Kurdish days
roj ics --locale en > kurdish-events.ics