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Wheel of the Year calendar feed
A calendar you can subscribe to, so the eight festivals appear in the calendar app you already use. The dates come from the same rules as the festival pages here, and the page below says exactly how they are worked out.
4 min read · Updated 11 November 2026 · Last checked 11 November 2026
Choose your feed #
Your feed address
Subscribe (opens your calendar app) · Open or download the .ics file
It runs from this year to 2100 and refreshes itself, so you subscribe once. If you only want the dates once, download the file instead.
What you will see next
- Yule, Monday 21 December 2026 (the solstice falls at about 20:50 UTC)
- Imbolc, Monday 1 February 2027
- Ostara, Saturday 20 March 2027 (the equinox falls at about 20:25 UTC)
- Beltane, Saturday 1 May 2027
- Litha, Monday 21 June 2027 (the solstice falls at about 14:11 UTC)
- Lughnasadh, Sunday 1 August 2027
- Mabon, Thursday 23 September 2027 (the equinox falls at about 06:02 UTC)
- Samhain, Monday 1 November 2027
Add it to your calendar #
Menus differ between versions, so treat these as a guide.
- Apple Calendar. Choose File, then New Calendar Subscription, and paste the address. On an iPhone, open Settings, then Calendar, Accounts, Add Account, Other, Add Subscribed Calendar. The Subscribe link above may do this for you.
- Google Calendar. On a computer, next to ‘Other calendars’ choose the plus sign, then ‘From URL’, and paste the address. Google refreshes subscribed calendars on its own schedule, which can take many hours, and it does not offer the reminder in the feed, so set one in Google if you want it.
- Outlook. Choose Add calendar, then Subscribe from web, and paste the address.
- Anything else. Download the .ics file and import it. Importing gives you the dates once, without updates.
How the dates are worked out #
Each festival has one of two kinds of rule, and they are the same rules used for the dates on the Wheel of the Year and the festival pages.
- Solstices and equinoxes
- Yule, Ostara, Litha and Mabon follow the sun, so they move by a day or so from year to year. The dates are astronomical. The table behind them runs from 2026 to 2100, and the moment of each is given in UTC in the description of the event.1
- Cross-quarter festivals
- Samhain, Imbolc, Beltane and Lughnasadh use the traditional calendar days: 1 November, 1 February, 1 May and 1 August.2
In the Southern Hemisphere every festival falls six months later, so Yule is at the June solstice and Samhain is on 1 May. The festival names stay the same, and so does the season each one marks: Yule is the winter solstice in both.
What it does not do #
- It keeps one calendar. The feed is the eightfold wheel. Hellenists, Heathens and Kemetists mostly follow other calendars. See the paths for how each keeps time.
- The day can differ where you live. Events are all-day and dated by the UTC calendar day. A solstice that falls late in the evening in UTC may be the next day in Australia or the day before in California, so check the time in the event description.
- Some groups begin the evening before. Many keep the Gaelic festivals from sunset on the previous day, and the feed does not.
- It uses fixed days for the cross-quarters. A few groups calculate them as the astronomical halfway points between solstice and equinox, which fall some days later. This feed does not.
- It stops in 2100. The astronomical table ends there, and I would rather stop than guess.
If a date looks wrong to you, please say so. The corrections list is on the changelog.
Notes
- The moments were computed with the PyEphem astronomy library and checked against published tables for 2026 to 2030. For later years I checked them against a second, independent calculation (Meeus), which agrees to within about a minute and a half. After about 2050 the exact minute becomes less certain, because the Earth’s rotation cannot be predicted precisely, and three moments fall within minutes of UTC midnight (23 September 2026, 22 December 2043 and 23 September 2059), so their UTC day could be one off. The rules live in
inc/wheel.php. ↩ - These are the usual dates in modern practice. Where the Gaelic festivals came from, and how uncertain the early evidence is, is covered on the history page. ↩
Cite this page. The Garden, ‘Wheel of the Year calendar feed’, https://camelmaps.org/garden/calendar.php, last updated 11 November 2026, last checked 11 November 2026. What has changed.
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