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Week Number Calendar

View ISO week numbers for any year with holiday highlights and quarter boundaries.

Tested tool guide Tested browser tools Checked August 16, 2026

What Week Number Calendar does, with a checked example

This tool renders a full year as a grid of ISO 8601 week numbers, with quarter boundaries marked (Q1 through Q4 by calendar date) and holiday dates highlighted on whichever week they fall in. Enter a year to see the whole grid, or a single date to see which week it belongs to. The recurring surprise: the first days of January and the last days of December often carry a week number from the neighboring year, because ISO weeks always start on Monday and week 1 is defined by the year's first Thursday, not by January 1st.

Worked example

A concrete input and expected output from the current implementation.

Input

2027-01-01

Expected output

ISO week 53 of 2026 (Monday, Dec 28, 2026 - Sunday, Jan 3, 2027)

January 1, 2027 falls on a Friday, before the Monday (Jan 4) that starts ISO week 1 of 2027, so it is assigned to the last week of the prior ISO week-year; 2026 has 53 weeks because January 1, 2026 fell on a Thursday.

How the result is produced

1

ISO week numbering

Weeks always run Monday through Sunday. Week 1 of a year is the week containing that year's first Thursday, equivalently the week containing January 4th. Because of this, up to three days at the start of January can belong to the final week (52 or 53) of the previous year, and up to three days at the end of December can belong to week 1 of the next year.

2

holidays and quarter markers on the grid

Each week row is annotated with any holiday date that falls inside it, and the grid marks where Q1 through Q4 begin using calendar-quarter boundaries (Jan 1, Apr 1, Jul 1, Oct 1). Because quarters follow the calendar rather than the week grid, a single ISO week can straddle two quarters near each boundary.

Good uses

  • checking which iso week a contract, invoice, or european business deadline written as 'week 33' actually refers to
  • planning agile sprints or biweekly pay periods that are tracked by week number rather than calendar date
  • seeing at a glance how many weeks remain in a quarter or year, with holidays marked so you can plan around them

Limits and checks

  • the last few days of december and first few days of january often carry a week number from the other year, so a 'week 52' or 'week 53' label does not always match the calendar year printed on the page
  • the holiday set shown is tied to whichever region or country the tool covers; if that doesn't match your location, dates it highlights or omits will be wrong for you
  • quarter markers follow calendar dates (jan1/apr1/jul1/oct1), not week boundaries, so the week straddling a quarter start is shown as belonging to only one quarter even though some of its days fall in the other

Common questions

Why is January 1 sometimes shown as week 52 or 53 instead of week 1?

Because ISO 8601 defines week 1 as the week holding the year's first Thursday. If January 1 falls on a Friday, Saturday, or Sunday, those first few days still belong to the previous year's final week, not week 1 of the new year.

Can I use this for the US convention where weeks start on Sunday?

No. This tool follows the ISO 8601 standard, where every week starts Monday and ends Sunday. If your organization counts weeks starting Sunday, the week numbers shown here will not line up with that system.

References and verification

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