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Fiscal calendars that match your books, not the wall

Monthly, quarterly, and yearly templates for the fiscal year your business actually runs on — not just January through December. Built for accountants, controllers, FP&A teams, and budget planners who close on a different schedule than the calendar.

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Countries
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Public Holidays
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Pay Periods
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Planning Guides
A printed fiscal year planner with monthly and quarterly templates laid out on a desk.

Browse fiscal calendars by country

Every country runs its fiscal year differently. The United States federal government starts on October 1; the United Kingdom uses April 6 for personal tax and April 1 for government accounting; Australia and many Asia-Pacific economies start in July; India and Canada align on April 1. Pick a country to see its fiscal year structure, public holidays mapped onto the fiscal calendar, and ready-to-print monthly and quarterly templates labelled by fiscal month (FM1–FM12) and fiscal quarter (Q1–Q4).

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Quick monthly templates

Each monthly template renders the calendar grid in fiscal-year context — labelled FM1 through FM12 for the country you choose, with public holidays highlighted in the grid and printable in black on plain paper. Use the Sunday-start week convention (US standard) or fold to a Monday-start grid via your browser's print settings.

Pay period planners

The US federal pay calendar runs on 26 biweekly pay periods per year, anchored to the OPM-published schedule. We turn that schedule into a clean year-at-a-glance reference with start, end, and payday for every period — useful for any business that mirrors federal pay-period conventions or that runs payroll on a Sunday-start, biweekly cadence.

Quarterly budget tracker templates

Quarter-level views combine three consecutive monthly grids on one page. Each quarterly template shows the three fiscal months in calendar order with all public holidays highlighted, plus a header strip showing the FM range, total business days, and the quarter's role in the planning cycle (open, reforecast, defend, close).

Guides for budget planners

Background reading on how fiscal years work, why they differ across countries, and how to map them onto your own books — written for finance teams, controllers, and operations managers.

What Is a Fiscal Year?

A plain-language definition of fiscal year and why governments and companies pick non-calendar boundaries.

The 4-4-5 Retail Calendar

How retail chains and their suppliers split a fiscal year into 4-week, 4-week, 5-week monthly periods.

The US Federal Fiscal Year

October 1 to September 30: history, naming convention, and what FY versus CY means in federal contracting.

Fiscal Quarter Conventions

Q1 of a non-calendar fiscal year is not the same as Q1 of the calendar year. Here is what each quarter means.

How US Federal Pay Periods Work

26 biweekly pay periods per year, anchored to the OPM-published schedule. How payday is computed and what happens at year-end.

Budget Cycle vs Fiscal Year

A budget cycle starts six to twelve months before the fiscal year. Here is how the two clocks interact.

Fiscal Year vs Tax Year

The fiscal year is the company's operating calendar; the tax year is what the revenue authority cares about. They may or may not match.

Closing the Books at Year-End

A practical timeline for a clean year-end close, anchored to fiscal months FM10 through FM12 and FM1 of the new year.

How to Print a Monthly Template

Browser print settings that produce a clean black-and-white monthly grid suitable for posting on a wall or photocopying.

Why Fiscal Years Differ Across Countries

Historical, agricultural, and legislative reasons behind the patchwork of national fiscal year start dates.

Mapping Holidays to Fiscal Months

A holiday on July 4 falls in fiscal month FM10 for the US federal calendar, not FM7. Here is why that matters.

ISO Week vs Fiscal Week

ISO 8601 weeks start on Monday; US retail fiscal weeks start on Sunday. They diverge by one day and produce different week numbers.

Why a fiscal calendar is not a calendar calendar

If your fiscal year ends June 30, the calendar on your wall is lying to you about which quarter it is. Q1 starts in July, not January; year-end falls in early summer; and budget planning windows land in spring while the rest of the world is thinking about Q2 of the calendar year. FiscalGrid exists because accountants, controllers, and operations managers shouldn't have to mentally translate every date.

We compile fiscal year start dates, public holidays, and pay period schedules from public sources — including the US Office of Personnel Management's pay-period administration data, the US Treasury's Bureau of the Fiscal Service datasets, the Wikipedia list of fiscal year start dates by country, and Wikidata's structured holiday records — and render the result as plain HTML that prints cleanly on standard letter and A4 paper. No login. No popups. No app to install.

Source for this build: live_partial · last refreshed 2026-05-03T02:34:39+00:00. Read more on our methodology page.

Need a calendar that isn't here? The data files driving every page are plain JSON. Open our methodology to see how we curate fiscal year starts, holidays, and pay periods, and how to read the source attribution on every page.