Bengali calendar (Bangladesh)

Today, Saturday, 14 November 2026, is 29 Kartik 1433 (২৯ কার্তিক ১৪৩৩ বঙ্গাব্দ) in the Bengali calendar of Bangladesh.

It is the year 1433 of the Bengali era (Bangabda). The year begins on 14 April and is 593 years behind the Gregorian one from that day, 594 years before it. The year 1434 begins on Wednesday, 14 April 2027.

Pohela Boishakh, the Bengali New Year, is always on 14 April in Bangladesh: the first day of Boishakh. The next one is on Wednesday, 14 April 2027, the start of the year 1434. It is a public holiday.

In the calendar of Bangladesh the first six months (Boishakh to Ashwin) have 31 days, the next four (Kartik to Magh) 30 days, Falgun 29 days (30 in a leap year) and Chaitra 30 days. This rule dates from 2019: it put the national days on the same Bengali dates as in 1952 and 1971, so Language Martyrs’ Day is on 8 Falgun, Independence Day on 12 Chaitra and Victory Day on 1 Poush. From 1987 to 2019 only the first five months had 31 days.

No. West Bengal, Tripura and Assam use the traditional Bengali calendar, which follows the sidereal movement of the sun: its months have 29 to 32 days, and Pohela Boishakh falls on 14 or 15 April. Only the revised calendar of Bangladesh has fixed rules, and this page follows it.