✦ zenith calendar · the sikh almanac
the nanakshahi calendar in one quiet layer of your sky, each day explained in its own tradition's words.
sikh is one of the holiday almanacs that come with zenith calendar. it holds the gurpurabs and days of the nanakshahi calendar as it is published each year. some sangats keep the original 2003 nanakshahi dates instead, and the almanac's own page says so.
its dates come from that published calendar, not worked out on your phone. tap a day and read three short paragraphs: what it is, where it comes from, and how it is kept.
the nanakshahi calendar, as published year by year
the day of liberation
kept on diwali
the day of liberation: sikhs remember guru hargobind sahib ji coming home to amritsar after freeing fifty-two kings from prison.
sri harimandar sahib and gurdwaras everywhere are lit with lamps and lights; sangats gather for kirtan, ardas and langar, and homes are lit too.
the full moon of kattak
the birth of guru nanak dev ji, the first guru: the most widely kept gurpurab, the remembrance of the light that began the sikh path.
sangats sing through the streets at dawn in prabhat pheris in the weeks before; on the day an akhand path ends, asa di var is sung, kirtan goes on late into the night, langar is shared, and gurdwaras and homes are lit.
the first of magh, the winter sangrand
the gathering at sri muktsar sahib, remembering the chali mukte, the forty liberated ones.
great crowds come to sri muktsar sahib for the jor mela, bathing in the sarovar, listening to kirtan and dhadi songs, and sharing langar.
zenith calendar draws the year as an orbit round the sun. lit, sikh puts its days on their dates on that ring, in ice blue. its mark is ☬, the khanda.
each day carries three short paragraphs in its notes: what it is, where it comes from as its own tradition tells it, and how it is kept.
sikh arrives locked, so nothing in it changes by accident. the lock guards your hand, not your eye: you can still read it, shine it or eclipse it. one tap unlocks it, and then it is yours to rename, recolour or add to.
tap its chip in the legend to eclipse it (kept, but not drawn) and tap again to bring it back. nothing is deleted either way.
sikh shares one sky with your own commitments. like every almanac that comes with the app, it never counts toward the almanacs you can make for free, and it lives on your phone: zenith calendar has no server of its own.
✦ zenith calendar · the sky around it
sikh is a single layer. beneath it is a whole calendar drawn as the sky, your year an orbit round the sun, and every part of it answers your touch.
the sun stands at the centre and the year rings round it, with today's earth riding at today's place, its small moon beside it. tap the ring anywhere else and a faint ghost earth waits on that day.
drag along the ring and the days pass under your finger, the big date and the day's list following as you go. lift, and the day you stopped on stays picked.
tap the small moon beside today's earth and you dive into the week. the moon above shows its phase, named underneath; swipe the dates and each week brings its own.
tap the sun and the ring tips on its edge into a ladder of years. in the week, pull the moon firmly down and the month opens, the moon resting half off its foot.
zenith calendar has no server of its own. tap the gear and switch on "nothing comes in" or "nothing leaves this phone"; lift them, and every almanac is back exactly as it was.
sikh is waiting in the app, and the rest of the sky comes with it.
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The Prakash Gurpurab of Sri Guru Nanak Dev Ji falls on 24 November 2026, the full moon of Kattak, by the published Nanakshahi calendar.
Bandi Chhor Divas falls on 8 November 2026. It is kept on Diwali, for Guru Hargobind Sahib Ji's return to Amritsar.
Maghi falls on 14 January 2027, the first of Magh, with the great gathering at Sri Muktsar Sahib.
The sikh almanac follows the Nanakshahi calendar as it is published each year. Some sangats keep the original 2003 Nanakshahi dates instead, so a gurpurab can fall on another day there.
Zenith Calendar for Android comes with an almanac called sikh: the gurpurabs and days of the Nanakshahi calendar, drawn on the ring of your year beside your own days. Turning it on costs nothing.
Every date is the one the published Nanakshahi calendar prints for that day, not worked out on your phone. The calendar is released one year at a time each March, so the almanac reaches the end of the latest one.