The Jewish Calendar 2024/2025

Jewish festivals are celebrated on dates which are determined according to a lunar calendar which does not synchronise with the solar calendar. In order to ensure that seasonal festivals, such as celebrations of harvests, fall in the correct season, the calendar is adjusted.

Seven times in every nineteen years, we add an extra month to the year. How do we do this? When we reach the last month of the year, Adar, we just repeat it! The Jewish day begins at sunset, which means that all Jewish festivals begin in the evening before the festival day, rather than beginning immediately after midnight. This reflects the origin of the festivals in times when there were no clocks. At least everyone knew when it was dark or light. So a day ended (and the next one began) when the sun set.

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• Jewish Year 5784

  Shavuot

  Tisha B’Av (fast of the ninth of Av)

  Tuesday 11th June 2024

  Monday 12th August 2024

• Jewish Year 5785

  Erev Rosh Hashanah

  Rosh Hashanah

  Rosh Hashanah second day

  Shabbat Shuvah

  Erev Yom Kippur (kol nidrei)

  Yom Kippur

  Erev Sukkot

  Sukkot

  Erev Shmini Atzetet/Simchat Torah

  Shmini Atzetet/Simchat Torah

  First Chanukah light

  Shabbat Chanukah

  Eighth Chanukah light

  Tuesday 1st October 2024

  Wednesday 2nd October 2024

  Thursday 3rd October 2024

  Saturday 5th October 2024

  Friday 11th October 2024

  Saturday 12th October 2024

  Wednesday 16th October 2024

  Thursday 17th October 2024

  Wednesday 23rd October 2024

  Thursday 24th October 2024

  Wednesday 25th December 2024

  Saturday 28th December 2024

  Wednesday 2th December 2024

• 2025

  Tu BiSh’vat (New Year for Trees)

  Purim

  First seder night

  First Day Pesach (Passover)

  Seventh Day Pesach

  Shavuot

  Tisha B’Av (fast of the ninth of Av)

  Thursday 13th February 2025

  Friday 14th March 2025

  Saturday 12th April 2025

  Sunday 13th April 2025

  Sunday 20th April 2025

  Monday 2nd June 2025

  Sunday 3rd Aug 2025