A calendar is only as useful as the questions it can answer, and here the useful question is rarely just "what day is it". These pages cover 2026 to 2030 at three levels — a full year at a glance, a single month in the familiar grid, and one day in detail — with public holidays marked and the Monday-to-Friday working week applied as it actually stands.
Day pages carry the detail scheduling depends on: the weekday, the ISO week number, the position of the date within the year, and whether it counts as a working day. Friday is the interesting case, because it is a working day and a short one at the same time; the pages say so rather than flattening it into a full day or a day off.
The other calendar on the page
The Hijri date is not decoration in the Emirates. It appears on residence permits, on court documents and on the front page of the newspapers, and the religious year runs by it: Ramadan, the two Eids, the Islamic New Year and the Prophet's birthday are all lunar. A lunar year is about eleven days shorter than a Gregorian one, so each of those moves steadily backwards through the seasons, and Ramadan that falls in the cool part of the year now will fall in high summer within a decade.
The academic year adds a third rhythm. Schools here open in the last days of August and finish at the start of July, with a winter break around the turn of the year and a spring break that is set by the education authority rather than by Easter. Because so many families travel, the summer emptying of the city is unusually complete — traffic on the main roads noticeably thins from late June, and returns in a single week at the end of August.
Five years of coverage is enough for most planning that has to be done in advance: checking which weekday a date falls on before booking anything, counting working days towards a milestone two years out, or confirming where National Day lands in a year you have not yet thought about.
Common questions
Which years are covered?
2026 to 2030, with a page for every year, every month and every individual day in that range.
Is the Hijri date shown?
Yes, alongside the Gregorian date, because that is how dates appear on official documents here and how the religious calendar is counted.
Is Friday a working day?
Yes, but a short one. Federal offices finish at midday and many schools release pupils around noon, so the day pages treat it as a working day of reduced length rather than a day off.
Do the day pages show week numbers?
Yes, using the ISO standard, in which week one contains the first Thursday of January. That is the numbering most international project planning uses.
When does the school year run?
From the last days of August to the start of July, with a winter break around the turn of the year and a spring break set by the education authority.
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