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Printable calendar · May 2027

May 2027 calendar

May 2027 opens on a Saturday, closes on Memorial Day, and its 31 days need six week rows to lie flat — an unusually tall month. This page prints it at the exact size of your paper, Letter or A4, with the federal holiday already marked and every date computed in your browser the moment the sheet is drawn.

SheetLetter 8.5×11 in PeriodMay 2027 Week rows6 rows Week startsSunday Holidays1 marked
May 2027SundayMondayTuesdayWednesdayThursdayFridaySaturday12345678910111213141516171819202122232425262728293031Memorial Day

Holidays in May 2027

A single federal holiday lands in May 2027, and it takes the month's final cell. The list beneath the sheet is computed from the federal definitions — the same rules the sheet itself uses to place its mark — so the list and the grid cannot disagree. The familiar May observances are included alongside it for reference, with one distinction to keep in mind: they appear in this list but are never marked inside the cells.

How this May 2027 page works

Most months fit five week rows; May 2027 does not. It opens on a Saturday, runs 31 days, and finishes on a Monday, so the grid spills into a sixth row whichever day heads the columns — a shape the calendar only produces when a 31-day month begins on a Saturday. That alone makes it worth seeing on paper: the extra row changes every cell's proportions, and a planner ruled for five rows will misjudge this month. The people who print it are working the seam between spring and summer — teachers pacing the closing weeks of the school year, families slotting graduations and end-of-season games, anyone sketching plans around the long weekend that ends the month and, by custom, opens the summer.

The sheet is an SVG drawn in millimeters: when the layout calls for a 12.7 mm margin, that number is written into the geometry, not approximated in pixels. A print stylesheet declares the physical page to the dialog — 215.9 × 279.4 mm for Letter, 210 × 297 mm for A4 — so the browser lays the drawing onto paper whose size it already knows, and because the browser itself is the PDF engine, Print / Save as PDF produces the file locally. The dates are built the same way: May's Saturday opening, Monday close, and six-row span all fall out of date computation when the page loads, and Memorial Day lands where the federal last-Monday-of-May rule puts it, not where a stored list says.

What the sheet leaves off is deliberate. There are no week numbers and no lunar phases, and observances without federal standing — Mother's Day and Cinco de Mayo among them — stay in the list below rather than in the grid squares, where an unofficial mark could pass for an official one. Two options change the sheet's character. The Monday-start layout rebuilds the grid with the weekend paired at the far edge; May still needs its six rows either way. The coloring-top layout draws the same grid shorter, low on the page, and frames a blank panel above it for a child's artwork — the calendar becomes a keepsake once the month is done. Leave the dialog's scale at 100%, or "Actual size"; every fit-to-page setting redraws the month smaller than true.

Frequently asked questions

Why does May 2027 need six week rows?
Because it opens on a Saturday and holds 31 days. In the Sunday-start grid, May 1 sits alone at the end of the first row, and the 30th and 31st spill into a sixth; shift the week's first day and the count still lands on six rows, with the month's closing Monday alone on the final one. Six rows is as tall as a month grid gets, so each day cell gives up a little height — the trade a month this shape demands.
When is Memorial Day in 2027?
Memorial Day falls on Monday, May 31, 2027 — the final day of the month, so its mark sits in the last cell of the grid. Defined as the last Monday of May, it never needs an observed date the way fixed-date holidays do when they land on a weekend. It also closes the school-year stretch and, by long habit, opens summer, which is why this page pairs naturally with June on the same clipboard or fridge.
Are Mother's Day and Cinco de Mayo marked on this calendar?
Both appear in the list under the sheet — Mother's Day falls on Sunday, May 9, 2027, and Cinco de Mayo on Wednesday, May 5 — but neither gets a mark in the printed boxes. The grid reserves ink for federal holidays, whose dates follow a single statutory rule; observances are kept differently from household to household. The day cells are sized for handwriting, so if either date matters in your house, write it in after printing.
What is the coloring-top layout on the May 2027 sheet?
The same six-row grid, drawn at reduced height and set at the bottom of the page, with an empty framed panel taking the space above. The panel is for a child to fill — a drawing up top, the family's plans below, one sheet on the refrigerator that ends up saved rather than recycled. Nothing is dropped to make room: every date, the weekday header, and the Memorial Day mark all survive; only the row height gives.
Does the May calendar print at the right size on Letter and A4?
Yes. Choose the paper size before you print and the sheet is regenerated for that page's true dimensions — nothing is squeezed from one format into the other. In the dialog itself, confirm the scale control reads "Actual size" rather than any fit or shrink option; with those, the drawing scales down and its millimeters stop being millimeters — and a six-row May has less cell height to spare than an ordinary month.

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