Free Catholic calendar PDF

A beautiful printable Catholic wall calendar — one month per page in landscape format with the complete USCCB liturgical calendar, saint feast days, holy days of obligation, and season colors. No email. No signup. No cost.

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A live preview of the current month, generated from the official USCCB calendar. Click the arrows to flip through the year.

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Free printable Catholic calendar PDF for 2026 — landscape wall-calendar grid showing May 2026 with feast days, Ascension, Pentecost, Mother's Day, Memorial Day, and liturgical season colors from the USCCB calendar
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Generated from the official USCCB liturgical calendar.

A traditional Catholic wall calendar PDF

Twelve landscape pages — one per month — with the full USCCB liturgical calendar laid out as a classic wall-calendar grid you can print and hang.

Every feast day, Sunday, liturgical color, and Holy Day of Obligation is computed from the official USCCB calendar — the same data your parish uses. No static graphics, no outdated dates. Generate for any year.

Want a planner with daily writing space instead? Get the free printable Catholic planner. Want the calendar on your phone? Subscribe to the liturgical calendar feed.

Liturgical Season Colors

Each Sunday and feast day shows the proper liturgical color — violet, gold, green, red, rose, or white — as a color band on the day cell.

Every Saint Feast Day

Solemnities, feasts, and memorials from the General Roman Calendar plus US proper saints — including all national feast days observed by the USCCB.

Holy Days of Obligation

Each Holy Day of Obligation is shaded and clearly labeled, with the option to follow the Ascension on Thursday or transferred to Sunday.

Print-Ready Landscape

Designed at 8.5×11 landscape for any home printer. A4 and 11×17 tabloid sizes available for international or oversized wall display.

Configure your Catholic calendar PDF

Print-ready PDF, generated instantly. First-time configurations may take up to 20 seconds.

How to print your Catholic wall calendar

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Open in Adobe Reader

Open the PDF in Adobe Acrobat Reader for the most accurate print results. Avoid printing from your browser — it may resize the calendar.

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Print at 100% / Actual Size

Select your paper size (Letter or A4), set orientation to landscape, and choose 100% / Actual Size. Heavier paper (24–32lb) gives the calendar a more substantial, wall-mounted feel.

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Bind or hang each month

Three easy options: staple the stack at the top, hole-punch and use a calendar wire/ring binding, or simply tape each new month to the wall as the year progresses.

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Live the liturgical year

Watch the seasons unfold at a glance — violet Advent, gold Christmas, green Ordinary Time, purple Lent, white Easter — with every solemnity, feast, and memorial in its place.

Holy Days of Obligation & liturgical colors

2026 Holy Days of Obligation (United States)

These are the days that, in addition to all Sundays, US Catholics are obligated to attend Mass. Each is highlighted on the printable PDF calendar.

Holy DayDate2026 Day
Solemnity of Mary, Mother of GodJanuary 1Thursday — observed
Ascension of the LordMay 17 (transferred)Sunday — observed in most US dioceses
Assumption of the Blessed Virgin MaryAugust 15Saturday — obligation lifted in most US dioceses
All Saints' DayNovember 1Sunday — observed at Sunday Mass
Immaculate Conception of the BVMDecember 8Tuesday — always obligatory (Patronal feast)
The Nativity of the Lord (Christmas)December 25Friday — always obligatory

Liturgical colors

The Catholic Church marks each season of the liturgical year — and each feast — with a proper color. The calendar PDF shows these as a color band at the top of each day's cell.

Violet — Advent & Lent
White / Gold — Christmas, Easter, Marian feasts
Green — Ordinary Time
Red — Martyrs, Pentecost, Palm Sunday
Rose — Gaudete & Laetare Sundays

The liturgical year at a glance

The Catholic liturgical year begins on the First Sunday of Advent — four Sundays before Christmas. It cycles through Advent (violet, preparation), Christmas (gold, joy), Ordinary Time (green, growth), Lent (violet, repentance), the Sacred Triduum (red, the Lord's Passion), and Easter (gold, resurrection). The 2025–2026 year uses Lectionary Year C; 2026–2027 begins with Year A.

Frequently asked questions

Yes. No email signup, no payment, no account. Choose your options, download the PDF, and print it. This is a free resource for the Catholic community — built and maintained as a gift.

One month per landscape page with the complete USCCB liturgical calendar: saint feast days, Holy Days of Obligation, liturgical season colors (Advent violet, Christmas gold, Lent purple, Easter white, Ordinary Time green), Sundays color-coded by season, and optional US civil holidays. There's a clean cover page at the front (which you can turn off).

Landscape Letter (8.5 × 11 inches) is the default — works on any US home printer. A4 (210 × 297 mm) is available for international printing. For a larger wall display, Tabloid (11 × 17 inches) prints beautifully on a copy-shop or office printer.

Yes. Under Advanced Options, switch to the 1962 Calendar to get the traditional sanctoral cycle — Septuagesima, Ember Days, and the pre-Vatican II ranking system. This is the calendar used by communities that celebrate the Traditional Latin Mass (Extraordinary Form).

Yes. The Catholic calendar PDF is free for personal, parish, and classroom use. Print as many copies as you need for your bulletin board, school hallway, religious-ed classroom, or family fridge.

The USCCB publishes a date-list PDF of the liturgical year, useful for clergy and liturgists who need exact rank and Lectionary references. This site generates a traditional wall-calendar grid — one month per page, easy to glance at and hang on your wall. Both use the same authoritative USCCB calendar data.

Yes. The generator supports any year — 2026, 2027, 2028, and beyond. Pick a year from the dropdown and download a fresh PDF. The liturgical calendar is computed from the General Roman Calendar plus the USCCB national calendar, so it stays accurate for future years.

The official USCCB liturgical calendar via the LitCal API — the same General Roman Calendar and US proper saints (St. Elizabeth Ann Seton, Our Lady of Guadalupe, and others) that your parish follows. For the 1962 calendar, data comes from the missalemeum project.

Yes — three free companion products. The free printable Catholic planner has monthly + weekly spreads with writing space; the free digital Catholic planner is a hyperlinked PDF for iPad and Android; the free Catholic calendar subscription adds feast days to Google Calendar, Apple Calendar, or Outlook.

A Solemnity is the highest rank — Christmas, Easter, the Immaculate Conception, and other major celebrations of the Lord, the Virgin Mary, or saints of universal importance. A Feast is the next highest, often for apostles or major saints (e.g., the Transfiguration, St. Mary Magdalene). A Memorial commemorates a saint — either obligatory or optional. Memorials yield to Sundays and Solemnities. On the calendar PDF, solemnities and feasts appear in bold.

The Catholic liturgical year begins on the First Sunday of Advent — four Sundays before Christmas. For 2025–2026 that's November 30, 2025 (Lectionary Year C). The 2026–2027 liturgical year begins November 29, 2026 (Year A). Although the calendar PDF runs January through December, each page shows which liturgical seasons it covers.