Bangla Date Today - Calendar Year 1433 Bongabda | 2026 Khristhabda

Today is Saturday, 1st Kartik 1433 Bangabda. The English date is Saturday 17th October 2026 and the Hijri date is 5 Jumada al-Awwal 1448 AH. Kartik is the 7th month of the Bangla year. It has 30 days, today is day 1, and 29 days are left. On the English calendar, Kartik runs October 17 - November 15.

All the dates on this page follow Bangladesh time and change at midnight in Dhaka. If you open the page from London, Dubai or New York, you still see what the date is back home. If you need the date for a deed, an application or a letter, copy it from the cards above in Unicode or Bijoy.

Hemonto, the late-autumn season, begins with Kartik. Dew falls at night, there is a thin mist at dawn, and the daytime sun feels pleasant. People used to call it mora Kartik, the dead month. By then the stored rice had run out while the new crop was still standing in the field, and many families went short. In the Rangpur region this lean time was known as monga. That hardship has largely passed, but the phrase is still heard. Kali Puja and Diwali fall on the new moon of Kartik, with Bhai Phota two days later. Many Hindu families light a sky lamp every evening of the month.

The current year is 1433 Bangabda. It began on Pohela Boishakh, 14 April 2026, and will end on 13 April 2027. The quick way to get the Bangla year is to subtract 593 from the English year. That only works from 14 April to December, though. From January to 13 April you have to subtract 594. So most of 1433 Bangabda falls in 2026, and its last three and a half months fall in 2027.

Where does 593 come from? Under the Mughal emperor Akbar, a harvest calendar was introduced to make tax collection easier, and his court astronomer Fathullah Shirazi worked out the details. The count was tied to 963 Hijri, which was 1556 on the English calendar, the year Akbar took the throne. Take 963 from 1556 and you get 593. From that point the Bangla year followed the sun while the Hijri year followed the moon. A lunar year is about eleven days shorter, so the Hijri count has moved ahead little by little. That is how we have Hijri 1448 and Bangabda 1433 today.

The first six months, Boishakh to Ashwin, have 31 days each. Kartik, Ogrohayon, Poush, Magh and Chaitra have 30. Falgun has 29, or 30 in a year that has a 29 February. That adds up to 365 or 366 days, the same as the English year. These lengths came in with the 2019 revision. Under the older rule Ashwin had 30 days, which put 21 February on 9 Falgun and Victory Day on 2 Poush. But 21 February 1952 was 8 Falgun, and 16 December 1971 was 1 Poush. The revision was made so that the national days fall on their original Bangla dates again. West Bengal's almanac still follows the sun's movement through the zodiac, so the Bangla date across the border can differ by a day.

Today is Saturday. The seven Bangla day names come from seven bodies in the sky. Robi is the sun and Som is the moon, the same pair behind Sunday and Monday. The other five, Mongol, Budh, Brihaspati, Shukro and Shoni, are Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Venus and Saturn. The Bangla calendar on this site starts its week on Friday. The weekend in Bangladesh is Friday and Saturday, so the two days off sit side by side at the start of each row.

In letters and deeds the day is usually written with the word roj before it, as in roj Shonibar. Roj comes from Persian and means day. The copy buttons above give you the date in that form.

In Bangla a date takes a small suffix, and which one depends on the number. The first four are 1la, 2ra, 3ra and 4tha. From 5 to 18 the suffix is i, as in 5i, 12i and 18i. From 19 to 31 it is she, as in 19she, 21she and 30she. A full date goes in this order: day of the week, date, month, year, and then the word Bangabda. Today's date written out in full is Saturday 1st Kartik 1433 Bangabda.

Government letters carry both dates side by side, with the Bangla date first. Land deeds, marriage registration papers (kabinnama) and school certificates record the Bangla date as well. A wrong suffix or a wrong year on papers like these can cause trouble later, so it is safer to copy the date from the button above than to type it by hand.

Today is 5 Jumada al-Awwal 1448 AH. A Hijri month begins when the new moon is sighted. In Bangladesh the moon is usually seen a day later than in Saudi Arabia, so the date here tends to be one day behind. The dates on this page follow the announcements of the National Moon Sighting Committee at the Islamic Foundation. For a month that has not been announced yet, the date is worked out from the earlier months and may shift by a day once the moon is sighted. For Ramadan, Eid or Shab-e-Barat, the committee's announcement is the final word.

It is Late Autumn now, which covers the months of Kartik and Ogrohayon. The Bangla year has six seasons of two months each. They are Grishmo (summer), Borsha (monsoon), Shorot (autumn), Hemonto (late autumn), Sheet (winter) and Boshonto (spring). They do not line up with the four seasons of the English calendar. Borsha and Hemonto, for example, come from this region's own rains and rice harvest. After Late Autumn comes Winter.

Look at the top of the front page of any Bangladeshi daily and you will find three dates: Bangla, English and Hijri. Land records, deeds and mutation papers carry the Bangla year. Deeds from a grandfather's time often have no English date at all. Planting and harvest, fairs, pujas and wedding dates are still fixed by the Bangla month. If you need the English year for an old deed, use the land-record date converter. To count the days between two dates, use the date-difference calculator.

The next public holiday is Durga Puja, on Tuesday 20th October 2026 (4 Kartik). That is 3 days from today. The holidays page has the full list for the year, with the Bangla date of each one.