Muslims will soon welcome a new year in the Islamic lunar calendar, known as the Hijri calendar. The Hijri New Year, ...

Shavuot falls on the 6th of Sivan on the Jewish calendar, which reckons days as beginning at sundown ... (The variation stems from different traditions on when to observe lunar holidays, which ...

Christmas and Hanukkah will coincide on December 25, 2024, due to the differences between the solar-based Gregorian calendar and the lunar-based Hebrew calendar. This rare alignment occurs because ...

The Jewish calendar is a lunisolar calendar, also based on lunar months, that begins with the first day of Rosh Hashanah. Here's when Easter and Passover are this year and why they fall "late" in ...

And the date of the Passover is determined by the moon, in the Jewish lunar calendar. The first month of this calendar, Nisan, is set by the spring equinox, the day that the sun rises due east and ...

This would give a lunar year 354 days. But the solar aspect of the calendar forces the holiday of Pesach to be celebrated in spring. It is also called, חג האביב, the Holiday of Spring.

Easter's date is based on the lunar calendar. Easter is observed on the first Sunday after the first full moon following the spring equinox. Easter can be as early as March 22 or as late as April 25.

The Jewish calendar is also lunisolar, and the Jewish new year is celebrated often in the fall and will be held starting on September 22 this year. How Long Does the Lunar New Year Last?

Since 1900, this has happened only four other times: in 1910, 1921, 1959 and 2005. Hanukkah starting on Christmas this year was the result of two calendars intersecting.