About Share a Calendar

Search for a printable calendar and you get page after page of static images and locked PDF files. Neat grids, all of them, and every one assumes you'll print it first and write on it afterwards, in pen, hoping you don't make a mistake. That isn't really how planning works. Before a calendar goes on the fridge or the office wall it usually needs a few things in it already: the school inset days, the dentist appointment, whose turn it is on the school run, the bill that goes out on the 14th, the shift that changed at the last minute. We built this so you can do that part on screen, where a mistake costs nothing, and print once the calendar actually says what you need it to say. Click a day, start typing, and it saves as you go. Press Print and you get a clean page with your own notes on it. No menus, no buttons, no adverts anywhere on the paper.

The other thing we wanted to fix was geography. Most calendar sites are built for one country, nearly always the United States. That's fine until you need weeks that start on Monday, or ISO week numbers because that's how your employer schedules work, or the bank holidays that actually apply where you live. We publish calendars for 19 countries across North America, Europe and Australia, and switching between them takes one click. Behind that sits a decision we made early and haven't regretted: every holiday is stored as a rule rather than a date. Thanksgiving isn't a list of dates somebody typed in, it's "the fourth Thursday of November". Good Friday is "two days before Easter Sunday". Britain's substitute bank holidays are worked out from the rule that governs them. So a calendar for 2029 comes out as accurate as this month's, and nothing quietly rots the way a hand-maintained table always does in the end. The same rules decide when a holiday moves because it landed on a Saturday, which is the sort of detail that catches people out when they're booking time off.

It's free, and it's meant to stay that way. No paywall, no watermark on anything you print, no email address needed to use the site. There's a free account if you want one. It saves your notes against your profile instead of just this browser, lets you run separate calendars for work and family and school, and gives you a read-only link you can hand to anyone who needs the same dates. It's genuinely optional though, and the calendar works perfectly well without it. Advertising pays for all this, which is why we're fussy about where the adverts go: never inside the calendar grid, never beside the print button where you might hit one by accident, and never on anything you print or download. If a holiday date looks wrong for your region, or something simply doesn't behave the way you expected it to, tell us. Holiday legislation changes, regions do their own thing, and a wrong date affects everyone using that country's calendar rather than just the person who spotted it. That's how this gets better, and we do read all of it.