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Printable calendar · October 2026

October 2026 calendar

October 2026 fills five week rows, opening on a Thursday and closing on a Saturday. This page prints the month at the true size of your paper, Letter or A4, with Columbus Day marked in its cell on Monday the 12th. Halloween lands on a Saturday this year and closes out the month.

SheetLetter 8.5×11 in PeriodOctober 2026 Week rows5 rows Week startsSunday Holidays1 marked
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Holidays in October 2026

The list below is worked out from the federal holiday rules for October 2026's own weekdays, with nothing carried over from another year's table. The federal holiday is also marked inside its grid cell. Observances, Halloween among them, appear in this list only, so the printed cells stay clear. October has one federal date this year, and it lands on a Monday, so no observed-day substitution applies.

How this October 2026 page works

October 2026 opens on a Thursday and has 31 days. Both week-start options use five rows. Columbus Day is marked on Monday the 12th, and Halloween falls on Saturday the 31st. The readout above the sheet shows the paper size, 5 week rows, the week start and 1 holiday marked, and it updates as you change the controls.

The sheet is an SVG drawn in real millimeter units. At print time the page gives the print dialog the dimensions of Letter or A4 paper, so the browser lays the grid onto a page whose size it knows. There is no stored PDF to rescale, and nothing is fetched when you print. The dates are computed too: the code finds that the month opens on a Thursday, counts out 31 days and places each one in turn, five week rows deep. Columbus Day is in its cell because the second-Monday rule lands on the 12th.

There are no week numbers along the edge and no lunar phases in the corners; some planners want them and others find them clutter. Non-federal observances such as Halloween are listed below the sheet and left unmarked in the cells, because a mark on the 31st would suggest a closure that the federal list does not include. If your week runs Monday to Sunday, the Monday-start option rebuilds the grid, still five rows this month. When you print, keep the scale at 100%; a fit-to-page setting shrinks the grid below the size it was drawn.

Frequently asked questions

What day of the week is Halloween in 2026?
Halloween 2026 falls on Saturday, October 31, the last day of the month. It is not a federal holiday, so it appears in the list below the sheet and its cell carries no mark. On a Sunday-start grid a Saturday Halloween sits in the bottom-right corner, the final cell of the last week row, with the rest of that week to its left for pencilled plans.
What day of the week is Columbus Day in 2026?
Columbus Day 2026 falls on Monday, October 12, and it is the only federal holiday in the month. The rule is the second Monday in October, so the date moves from year to year, and this page computes it from that rule. A Monday holiday never shifts, so the observed date is the same day. Some states and employers observe the day under a different name or not at all; the sheet marks the federal date.
What day does October 2026 start on?
Thursday. October 1, 2026 is a Thursday, and the month ends on Saturday, October 31. That gives five week rows whether the week begins on Sunday or Monday, so the grid is the same height either way. On a Sunday-start grid the 31 days fill the final row completely, so there are no empty cells at the foot of the sheet.
Is there an October 2026 calendar kids can color?
Yes. Choose Coloring top under Layout. The date grid moves into the lower part of the page, and a blank framed panel above it is left for a child's drawing. The same computed dates fill the cells, so the sheet still works as a calendar once it has been coloured. The panel prints as a thin outline with nothing inside, which keeps ink use low.
Will the October 2026 calendar print at the right size on A4?
Yes. Choose A4 and the grid is redrawn at A4 proportions, and the page passes that paper size to the print dialog. The one setting that matters is scale: leave it at 100 percent, and turn off any fit-to-page option your printer driver adds. To check the result with a ruler, measure from the left or right edge of the paper to the grid's outer line; at full size it is 12.7 mm.

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