Year grid
A compact 53-week calendar grid for spotting weekends, public holidays, today, and the custom dates that matter to your team.
United States holidays
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Weekends
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The year grid lays out a full calendar as weeks across the page and days down the page, so patterns that are hard to see in a month view become obvious. Each square is one date. Weekends are shaded light gray, public holidays for the selected country are highlighted in emerald, today is marked with a ring and dot, and any date you click is saved as a custom amber marker for the current view. Switch the week start between Monday and Sunday to match your team calendar, payroll rules, or regional convention.
Use it for annual planning, content calendars, launch blackout windows, leave planning, school-year sketches, or checking how much of the year has passed. The totals below the grid count working days, weekend days, and holidays for the chosen country and year. Holiday data is loaded through ClockOrbit's existing holiday API, backed by the same source used by the working-days calculator. The PNG export creates a 1280 by 800 image that is easy to drop into planning documents, status updates, and social cards. The embed option produces a small version for dashboards, intranets, and project pages that need a live calendar without rebuilding this logic.
A calendar year is 52 weeks plus one day, or plus two days in a leap year. That remainder decides everything the totals report. In a common year, one weekday occurs 53 times and the other six occur 52 times; the doubled day is whatever weekday 1 January falls on. Take a common year that opens on a Thursday: it has 53 Thursdays, 52 of everything else, exactly 104 weekend days, and therefore 261 weekdays before any public holidays are removed. If the same year opened on a Saturday, the extra day would land on the weekend and the weekday count would drop to 260.
Leap years widen the spread because two weekdays get doubled. A leap year that starts on a Saturday doubles both Saturday and Sunday, giving 106 weekend days and only 260 weekdays, while one that starts midweek can reach 262. This is why two consecutive years with identical holiday lists can still differ by a working day or two, and why the grid recomputes the totals instead of assuming a fixed number.
Fifty-two columns would hold only 364 days, so every year spills into at least one extra week column. Because the grid aligns days to your chosen week start, 1 January usually sits partway down the first column and 31 December partway down the last, with the empty cells at each end left blank. Switching the week start between Monday and Sunday re-flows every column, which is worth knowing before you export an image for a team that reads calendars the other way.
Holiday shading is national, so a date that is a public holiday only in one state or province will show as a plain working day. Countries also differ on what happens when a holiday falls on a weekend: some substitute the next Monday, some do nothing, and the grid reflects whatever the holiday source lists for that country and year. Custom markers are deliberately lightweight; they live in the page until you reload, so treat the PNG export as the way to keep an annotated year. And if you compare two countries, remember the working-day totals always describe the single country selected above the grid.
Between 260 and 262 weekdays before subtracting public holidays. A common year has 261 weekdays when its one extra day beyond 52 weeks falls on a weekday, and 260 when it falls on a weekend. Leap years range from 260 to 262. The totals under the grid do this count for the exact year and country you pick.
No. Clicked dates are kept only for the current view and clear when you reload the page. Export a PNG if you need a lasting copy of a marked-up year.
ISO 8601 defines Monday as the first day of the week, and most of Europe and much of Asia follow it. Calendars in the United States, Canada, and several other countries traditionally start on Sunday. Pick whichever matches the calendars your team already reads, since it changes which column each date sits in.
The grid highlights nationwide public holidays for the selected country. Holidays observed only in certain states, provinces, or cities may not appear, and observance-shift rules, where a weekend holiday moves to a weekday, vary by country.
The PNG export is 1280 by 800 pixels, sized to drop into slides, documents, and social cards without resizing.