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Printable calendar · December 2026

December 2026 calendar

December 2026 fills five week rows, opening on a Tuesday and carrying the year out on a Thursday. This page prints the month at the honest size of your paper — Letter or A4 — with Christmas Day marked in its cell on Friday the 25th. The year's last sheet tends to go up early; this one is ready before the wrapping paper is.

SheetLetter 8.5×11 in PeriodDecember 2026 Week rows5 rows Week startsSunday Holidays1 marked
December 2026SundayMondayTuesdayWednesdayThursdayFridaySaturday12345678910111213141516171819202122232425Christmas Day262728293031

Holidays in December 2026

Every date in the list below is computed against December 2026's real weekdays from the federal holiday rules — nothing is carried over from a previous year's table. Entries flagged federal are also marked inside their grid cell; observances appear in this list only, leaving the printed cells uncluttered. December keeps the rules simple this year: a single federal date, landing on a weekday, so no observed-day substitution applies.

How this December 2026 page works

December is the month a calendar sheet earns its keep twice. First as a working surface: 31 days of school concerts, travel plans, and shipping deadlines, each needing a cell to land in before Friday the 25th arrives. Second as a beginning — this is when households set up the wall for the year ahead or tuck printed sheets into a gift. The coloring-top layout leans into that double life: the grid compresses to the lower part of the page and a blank framed panel opens above it, so a child fills the space with a December drawing and the finished sheet outlives the month as a keepsake. Parents tend to print two — one to use, one to keep.

The sheet in the preview is the sheet that leaves the printer. It is drawn as SVG whose units are real millimeters, and when the print dialog opens, the page declares the exact dimensions of Letter or A4 stock — the browser then acts as its own PDF generator, laying the grid onto a surface whose size it knows precisely. Nothing here is transcribed. The code asks which weekday opens the month — a Tuesday — counts out 31 days, and places each in turn, wrapping five week rows deep. Christmas Day appears in its cell because the federal holiday rules, evaluated against this particular December, put it there, not because a template carried a mark over from some other year.

Know what the sheet leaves out. There are no week numbers along the edge and no lunar phases in the corners — additions that suit some planners and clutter others. Non-federal observances, New Year's Eve among them, are listed below the sheet for reference but never marked inside the cells; the grid reserves its ink for the federal set. If your week runs Monday to Sunday, the Monday-start option rebuilds the grid accordingly — still five rows for this month either way. And one setting decides whether the millimeters survive the trip to paper: the print dialog's scale must stay at 100%, sometimes labeled Actual size. Any fit-to-page or shrink-to-fit option scales the drawing down, and a scaled calendar is a different object from the one this page drew.

Frequently asked questions

What day of the week is Christmas Day in 2026?
Christmas Day 2026 falls on Friday, December 25, and it is the only federal holiday in the month. Because it lands on a weekday, the federal observed date is the same day — no substitution rule applies. On the sheet, the 25th carries the holiday mark inside its cell, and since it is a Friday, the holiday runs straight into the weekend for most schedules.
Is New Year's Eve 2026 a federal holiday?
No. New Year's Eve — Thursday, December 31, 2026 — is an observance rather than a federal holiday, so no closure rule attaches to it. On this page it appears in the computed list under the sheet but is not marked inside the grid; cell marks are reserved for federal dates. Plenty of workplaces close early that day by their own choice, but that is a matter for your employer's calendar, not something a printed grid can decide.
What day does December 2026 start on?
December 1, 2026 falls on a Tuesday, and the month runs 31 days to end on Thursday the 31st — so the year finishes mid-week rather than tidily on a weekend. Laid into a grid, those dates occupy five week rows, and the row count happens to stay at five whichever day you set the week to begin on, so switching layouts does not change how tall the sheet's grid is.
Is there a December 2026 calendar kids can color?
Yes — the coloring-top option. It moves the full December grid to the lower portion of the page and frames a blank panel above it, sized for crayons or markers. The dates, the Christmas mark, and the print accuracy are unchanged; only the proportions shift. It suits the gift season well: a child draws the scene, the family uses the calendar through the month, and the drawing is what gets kept in January.
Will the December 2026 calendar print at the right size on A4?
Yes. Choose A4 in the paper-size control and the sheet is redrawn for 210 × 297 mm before printing — it is not a Letter design squeezed onto metric stock. The only setting to watch is the print dialog's scale: it needs to read 100% or Actual size. If margins clip the edge on your printer, reduce the margin value on the page rather than letting the dialog shrink the whole drawing.

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