Today in the Persian calendar
4 Mehr 1405
Saturday
Zodiac: Libra ♎
Year of the Horse
Today: Saturday, 4 Mehr 1405
Persian Calendar 1405
Today's date in the Persian (Solar Hijri), Gregorian and Islamic calendars, this month's calendar with Iran's public holidays and occasions, a date converter and the countdown to Nowruz 1406.
Day
4
Month
Mehr
Year
1405
Today in the Gregorian calendar
26 September 2026
Saturday
Today in the Islamic calendar
14 Rabi' al-Thani 1448
Today in the Imperial calendar
4 Mehr 2585
Years counted from the start of the reign of Cyrus the Great
Mehr 1405 calendar
September – October 2026Date converter
Pick a date in any of the calendars to see it in the other three.
Today's occasions
4 Mehr 1405-
international
International Stuttering Awareness Day
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countries
Jidai Matsuri (Japan)
On this day: September 26
Events
- 46 BC Julius Caesar dedicates a temple to Venus Genetrix, fulfilling a vow he made at the Battle of Pharsalus.
- 1905 (121 years ago) Albert Einstein publishes the third of his Annus Mirabilis papers, introducing the special theory of relativity.
- 2024 (2 years ago) Hurricane Helene makes landfall in Perry, Florida as a Category 4 hurricane, killing over 250 people, causing US$78.7 billion in damage and becoming the deadliest hurricane in the mainland United States since Katrina.
Births
- 1888 (138 years ago) T. S. Eliot, English poet, playwright, critic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1965)
- 1889 (137 years ago) Martin Heidegger, German philosopher and academic (died 1976)
- 1897 (129 years ago) Pope Paul VI,
Deaths
- 1945 (81 years ago) Béla Bartók, Hungarian pianist and composer (born 1881)
- 2008 (18 years ago) Paul Newman, American actor, director, producer, and businessman (born 1925)
- 2019 (7 years ago) Jacques Chirac, French politician, President of France (born 1932)
Countdown to Nowruz 1406
See the moment of the new year in your city's time; details and the years ahead.
Location: Tehran, Iran
Date: Saturday 29 Esfand 1405
Gregorian: 20 March 2027
Time: 23:54:41
Local time in the chosen city
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About the calendars on this site
The Persian (Solar Hijri) calendar
The Solar Hijri calendar is Iran's official calendar, in use since 1304 (1925). It counts its years from the Prophet Muhammad's migration to Medina, but its year is solar: each year begins at Nowruz, at the moment of the March equinox. If that moment falls before noon in Tehran, that day is 1 Farvardin; if after, the next day is.
The first six months have 31 days, the next five 30, and Esfand 29, or 30 in a leap year. A leap year usually comes every four years and sometimes after five: the last leap year was 1403, and the next leap year is 1408.
Gregorian calendar
The Gregorian calendar is solar too, and spring begins around 20 March every year. It has a leap year every four years, except century years not divisible by 400 (such as 1900).
The Islamic (lunar Hijri) calendar
A lunar year is about 354 days, some 11 days shorter than a solar year, so religious occasions come about 11 days earlier in the Persian calendar each year. In Iran, each lunar month begins with the sighting of the new crescent and an official announcement. The Islamic dates on this site follow Iran's official calendar; for months not yet announced, the date is an astronomical estimate and may move by a day.
The Imperial (Shahanshahi) calendar
From Esfand 1354 to Shahrivar 1357 (1976–1978), Iran counted its years from the start of the reign of Cyrus the Great: 1355 was the Imperial year 2535. The months are those of the Solar Hijri calendar; only the year number is 1180 higher. This year is 2585 in the Imperial calendar.