I use this to generate a yearly calendar PDF for my eink device - https://recalendar.me/. It generates beautiful pages with internal linking, has support configuring the format, adding/removing sections, and also for uploading ICS files for holidays and such. And it runs entirely within your browser.
I love https://www.timeanddate.com , they have surprisingly much nice content. Lots of stuff probably possible to find elsewhere, but it's a nice collection of utility.
- Use their calendars all the time for various planning or visualizations. Like before exams I used to print one out, mark each exam, and work backward which days I would study for which subject.
- The astronomy stuff is super useful. https://www.timeanddate.com/astronomy/night/ and it runs great on a phone. Aka I can be outside and use this page to know exactly what I'm looking at in the sky, or use it to plan to see what will be visible tonight.
- I have a simple timer counting down to our planned vacation. Just fun to go to the tab and daydream.
- When various holidays or red days are. Especially those that move and aren't normally marked on a calendar. Like when this and that part of Norway has their winter break.
I like a version of this[0] where the weekdays are aligned.
That one kind of sparked the idea again when I saw it on HN, but it didn't have an easy way to add public holidays / personal calendars.
Is there a way to get rid of the text box overlay or does it just disappear when you print it?
It disappears when you print!
This is such a great layout, thank you for bringing it to my attention!
> In Apple Calendar it's not possible to see the full year, and still have some visibility into which events are happening on the individual days
It‘s weird in general how tools/ websites seem to avoid putting too much information on a screen (see also: event listings, …). Why is that? Most people have big screens nowadays, so it would be feasible to have a view like the one described here, at least for desktop calendars.
Interesting how different people's brains work. I personally cannot mentally parse a month-based calendar - the distribution of weeks and weekends is far too variable. I print one of these in A3 every year [0] - easy to see at a glance how many weekends are booked up, any gaps where you need to plan something to look forward to, how many weeks of work you can slot in before a particular commitment, etc. Interesting I've never found the same concept anywhere else.
Our local MP (I'm in Sydney) distributed a piece of magnetic calendars to every household, which can be attached to the refrigerator. All the public holidays are already marked, and I mark my own special ones with a highlighter. It's really useful, as long as you don't mind seeing the MP's photo every day.
Put a photo of someone important there instead.
How are you going to remember the birthday of that important person?
I'd have already used the year-at-once calendar and put a little photo on their day.
Do you need further instructions?
I used to save Timeanddate's calendar as HTML and adjust them so they fit A4 paper perfectly (also like to remove their logo oops), but have moved on to generating my own: https://kenrick95.github.io/calendar/ Suprisingly CSS Grid is perfect on my use case :)
I have a simpler problem - I want a yearly calendar app (for Android) that just shows the yearly calendar (for any year), nothing else (no events, no reminders, no anything).
Any app I find seems to disappear from the Play Store after a couple years.
I second cal! Also I find bsdmainutils’s calendar quite amazing in its simplicity
Package: ncal
Source: bsdmainutils
Maintainer: Debian Bsdmainutils Team
[...]
Description-en: display a calendar and the date of Easter
[...] This utility displays a
simple calendar in a traditional or an alternative and more advanced layout,
and the date of Easter.
And here is a Bash script that runs ncal to show weeks vertically.
Re: bonus, are you asking for 52 columns and 7 rows?
No.
3 months per row (so 4 rows).
Within each month the weeks should be shown vertically (this was common when I was a kid, now even a google image search for yearly calendar shows only horizontal weeks).
Hey.com calendar has recently shipped a very nice year view
> gave that task to Claude and within 15 minutes I had a working userscript
Hate to say it but you can just tell an LLM to make the calendar for you as an html artifact that includes a print view. It can also add a .ics export.
Of course you should go over the dates and holidays to see if it got them right.
Yea I've thought about it and looked into some pre-made calendar components too but then I realized this will still take me longer to get small things like margins, font etc. right and it will just be yet another coding project on my pile of projects ;)
Right now, I'm using a Gantt chart to manage my travels.
Probably a bit overkill, since the locations only "overlap" one day max, but I like the clear spacing.
I hate to be that guy, but why not use pscal ?
It has all you want, plus moon phases!
It's admittedly harder to find these days, and someone should rewrite it in a decent language, but here it is:
was coded in BAGS (bash, awk, grep, sed) and Postscript circa 1987 [1], and it's still working almost 40 years later in 2026 !
Perhaps it was in fact coded decently. And licensed decently as well. ^_^
[1]
AUTHOR:
Patrick Wood
Copyright (C) 1987 by Pipeline Associates, Inc.
Permission is granted to modify and distribute this free of charge.
Well, I sort of agree, it’s a thing of beauty;) and yes, still works like a champ.
It’s hard to maintain though unless you really know your BAGS well.
Before vibe coding, I had tried to rewrite it in python, I believe, and it turned out not to be easier to read at all… but then I got sidetracked and put the project aside.
In my defense, pcal is a rewrite in c and seems horribly complex in comparison.
Maybe I should try to finish it. I hope Pat Wood won’t mind.
I use this to generate a yearly calendar PDF for my eink device - https://recalendar.me/. It generates beautiful pages with internal linking, has support configuring the format, adding/removing sections, and also for uploading ICS files for holidays and such. And it runs entirely within your browser.
I love https://www.timeanddate.com , they have surprisingly much nice content. Lots of stuff probably possible to find elsewhere, but it's a nice collection of utility.
- Use their calendars all the time for various planning or visualizations. Like before exams I used to print one out, mark each exam, and work backward which days I would study for which subject.
- The astronomy stuff is super useful. https://www.timeanddate.com/astronomy/night/ and it runs great on a phone. Aka I can be outside and use this page to know exactly what I'm looking at in the sky, or use it to plan to see what will be visible tonight.
- I have a simple timer counting down to our planned vacation. Just fun to go to the tab and daydream.
- When various holidays or red days are. Especially those that move and aren't normally marked on a calendar. Like when this and that part of Norway has their winter break.
I like a version of this[0] where the weekdays are aligned.
[0] https://neatnik.net/calendar/?layout=aligned-weekdays
This one is very customizable: https://github.com/abetusk/neatocal
On the subject of unusual calendars, I helped a friend make a calendar / digital art project that has a completely alternative month view:
https://turnturnturn.me/
That one kind of sparked the idea again when I saw it on HN, but it didn't have an easy way to add public holidays / personal calendars.
Is there a way to get rid of the text box overlay or does it just disappear when you print it?
It disappears when you print!
This is such a great layout, thank you for bringing it to my attention!
> In Apple Calendar it's not possible to see the full year, and still have some visibility into which events are happening on the individual days
It‘s weird in general how tools/ websites seem to avoid putting too much information on a screen (see also: event listings, …). Why is that? Most people have big screens nowadays, so it would be feasible to have a view like the one described here, at least for desktop calendars.
Interesting how different people's brains work. I personally cannot mentally parse a month-based calendar - the distribution of weeks and weekends is far too variable. I print one of these in A3 every year [0] - easy to see at a glance how many weekends are booked up, any gaps where you need to plan something to look forward to, how many weeks of work you can slot in before a particular commitment, etc. Interesting I've never found the same concept anywhere else.
[0] https://www.calendarpedia.co.uk/download/calendar-2025-portr...
Someone once collected how people visualize the year and wrote about it here: https://nrkbeta.no/2018/01/01/this-is-what-the-year-actually...
Quite interesting how people are so different.
I love the calendar format from https://davidseah.com/node/compact-calendar/
I found that over the holidays and wrote a cli version! https://github.com/wcampbell0x2a/compact-calendar-cli
Our local MP (I'm in Sydney) distributed a piece of magnetic calendars to every household, which can be attached to the refrigerator. All the public holidays are already marked, and I mark my own special ones with a highlighter. It's really useful, as long as you don't mind seeing the MP's photo every day.
Put a photo of someone important there instead.
How are you going to remember the birthday of that important person?
I'd have already used the year-at-once calendar and put a little photo on their day.
Do you need further instructions?
I used to save Timeanddate's calendar as HTML and adjust them so they fit A4 paper perfectly (also like to remove their logo oops), but have moved on to generating my own: https://kenrick95.github.io/calendar/ Suprisingly CSS Grid is perfect on my use case :)
You might like this static full year planner version: https://pgdash.io/2026
I have a simpler problem - I want a yearly calendar app (for Android) that just shows the yearly calendar (for any year), nothing else (no events, no reminders, no anything).
Any app I find seems to disappear from the Play Store after a couple years.
Bonus: show the weeks vertically.
https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/cal.1.html
I second cal! Also I find bsdmainutils’s calendar quite amazing in its simplicity
Package: ncal
And here is a Bash script that runs ncal to show weeks vertically.https://github.com/viviparous/showcal
Re: bonus, are you asking for 52 columns and 7 rows?
No.
3 months per row (so 4 rows).
Within each month the weeks should be shown vertically (this was common when I was a kid, now even a google image search for yearly calendar shows only horizontal weeks).
Hey.com calendar has recently shipped a very nice year view
https://world.hey.com/michelleharjani/building-hey-calendar-...
> gave that task to Claude and within 15 minutes I had a working userscript
Hate to say it but you can just tell an LLM to make the calendar for you as an html artifact that includes a print view. It can also add a .ics export.
Of course you should go over the dates and holidays to see if it got them right.
Yea I've thought about it and looked into some pre-made calendar components too but then I realized this will still take me longer to get small things like margins, font etc. right and it will just be yet another coding project on my pile of projects ;)
Right now, I'm using a Gantt chart to manage my travels.
Probably a bit overkill, since the locations only "overlap" one day max, but I like the clear spacing.
I hate to be that guy, but why not use pscal ?
It has all you want, plus moon phases!
It's admittedly harder to find these days, and someone should rewrite it in a decent language, but here it is:
https://www.panix.com/~mbh/pscal/
And I also hate to be that guy but pscal...
> someone should rewrite it in a decent language
was coded in BAGS (bash, awk, grep, sed) and Postscript circa 1987 [1], and it's still working almost 40 years later in 2026 !
Perhaps it was in fact coded decently. And licensed decently as well. ^_^
[1]
Well, I sort of agree, it’s a thing of beauty;) and yes, still works like a champ.
It’s hard to maintain though unless you really know your BAGS well.
Before vibe coding, I had tried to rewrite it in python, I believe, and it turned out not to be easier to read at all… but then I got sidetracked and put the project aside.
In my defense, pcal is a rewrite in c and seems horribly complex in comparison.
Maybe I should try to finish it. I hope Pat Wood won’t mind.