Bangla Date Today - Calendar Year 1433 Bongabda | 2026 Khristhabda

Today is Saturday, 28th Bhadra 1433 Bangabda. On the English calendar that is Saturday 12th September 2026, and on the Hijri calendar 29 Rabi' al-Awwal 1448 AH. Bhadra is the 5th month of the Bengali year and has 31 days; today is day 28, with 3 days left in the month. In Gregorian terms Bhadra runs August 16 - September 15.

Every date on this page follows Bangladesh time and turns over at midnight in Dhaka, so you see Bangladesh's date wherever you open it from. The cards above let you copy the date in Unicode or Bijoy for a deed, an application or a letterhead.

Bhadra is the first month of autumn, but the heat lingers; the sticky warmth has its own name, the palm-ripening heat of Bhadra. Palm fruit ripens now and palm-pulp fritters and cakes are made at home. White clouds sail overhead and kash grass begins to flower along the riverbanks. Janmashtami and Vishwakarma Puja fall here, and by the month's end the water starts to recede and the aman fields turn green.

The current year is 1433 Bangabda. It began on Pohela Boishakh, 14 April 2026, and ends on 13 April 2027. Subtracting 593 from the Gregorian year gives the Bengali year, but only from 14 April onward; from January to 13 April you subtract 594. That is why the first three and a half months of 2026 belong to 1432 Bangabda and the rest to 1433.

The number 593 goes back to Emperor Akbar. When the harvest year was introduced with 963 AH as its base, the lunar Hijri count and the solar count were set equal at that point. From then on the Bengali year advanced by the sun and the Hijri year by the moon, and because a lunar year is about eleven days shorter, the gap between them has widened a little every year. That is why Hijri 1448 and Bangabda 1433 sit so far apart today.

Boishakh to Ashwin, the first six months, have 31 days. Kartik, Ogrohayon, Poush and Magh have 30. Falgun has 29, or 30 in a year that contains 29 February. Chaitra has 30. That makes 365 or 366 days, the same as the English year. These fixed lengths date from the government's 2019 revision. Before it, Ashwin had 30 days and Falgun 30, or 31 in a leap year, which is why 21 February fell on 8 Falgun in some years and 9 Falgun in others. The revision was made to stop that drift. West Bengal's almanac still follows the older reckoning based on the sun's entry into each sign, so dates across the border can differ by a day.

Today is Saturday. The seven Bengali day names come from the seven classical planets: Robi is the sun, Som the moon, then Mongol, Budh, Brihaspati, Shukro and Shoni, in the same order that puts the sun and moon in Sunday and Monday. Printed Bengali almanacs start the week on Friday, because the weekend in Bangladesh is Friday and Saturday, and the Bengali calendar on this site does the same.

In letters and deeds the day is written in the form roj Shonibar, where roj is a Persian loanword meaning day. The copy buttons above give the date in exactly that pattern.

A Bengali date number takes a suffix that changes with the number: 1la, 2ra, 3ra, 4tha, then i from 5 to 18 (5i, 12i, 18i), and she from 19 to 31 (19she, 21she, 30she). The usual order for a full date is day name, date, month, year, then the word Bangabda. Today's date written out in full: Saturday 28th Bhadra 1433.

Official correspondence carries the Bengali and English dates side by side, Bengali first. Land deeds, marriage registrations and school certificates still record the Bengali date, so copying it from the button above is the safest way to avoid a wrong suffix or a wrong year.

Today is 29 Rabi' al-Awwal 1448 AH. Hijri months depend on the sighting of the moon, so in Bangladesh a month usually begins one day after it does in Saudi Arabia. The date shown here follows the announcements of the Islamic Foundation's moon-sighting committee; for a month not yet announced it is a projection from the previous months and can shift by a day on the 29th or 30th. For fasting, Eid or Shab-e-Barat, the Foundation's announcement is final.

It is Autumn, made up of Bhadra and Ashwin. The Bengali year has six seasons of two months each: Grishmo, Borsha, Shorot, Hemonto, Sheet and Boshonto, or summer, monsoon, autumn, late autumn, winter and spring. They do not map onto the four English seasons; late autumn and the monsoon come from Bengal's own weather, timed to harvest and rain. After Autumn comes Late Autumn.

Newspaper mastheads print three dates: Bengali, English and Hijri. Land records, deeds and mutation papers carry the Bengali year, and older deeds carry nothing else. Farming seasons, fairs, religious festivals and wedding dates are all reckoned by the Bengali month. To convert the year on an old deed there is the land-record date converter, and the date-difference calculator gives the gap between any two dates.

The next public holiday is Durga Puja on Tuesday 20th October 2026 (4 Kartik), 38 days from today. The full list, with the Bengali date of each holiday, is on the holidays page.