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The Maya date, right now

Every Classic Maya reckoning below is derived from one running tally of days since the Long Count era-base, using the GMT (584283) correlation.

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Tzolk'in

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Haab'

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Calendar Round

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Lord of the Night

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Cosmic wheel

The interlocking cycles

The 13 numbers and 20 named days of the Tzolk'in mesh like gears into a 260-day sacred count, turning independently of the 365-day Haab' solar year shown on the outer ring. Tap a day sign to open its record in the Tzolk'in reference.

Where we are

The next period endings

Classic monuments overwhelmingly commemorate period endings — the completion of a tun, a five-tun hotun, or a k'atun. These are the next ones from the date shown above.

Date converter

Convert between systems

Enter a Gregorian date or a Long Count to see its equivalents. Converting also updates the reading and wheel above.

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Long Count — b'ak'tun.k'atun.tun.winal.k'in

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Proleptic Gregorian dates and Julian Day Numbers are given for continuity across the whole range; the Long Count era-base falls in 3114 BCE, long before the Gregorian calendar existed.