You may have heard of the ISO week calendar, or just "the ISO calendar". Using weeks beginning on Monday,
it defines a week-year, and sets the first week in a year to be the first one with a majority of its days in January.
However, it has a problem: consider the date 2025W34-3, on which I am writing this text.
What month is it in? You can't tell just by looking at it... but we can combine it with months! So we get the "month-week" calendar.
The rule for the month-week calendar is that the first week of a month is the first week that a majority of
that month, or, equivalently, the first week that has its Thursday in the month.
Year start | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Total |
Mon | 01 (4) | 05 (4) | 09 (5) | 14 (4) | 18 (5) | 23 (4) | 27 (4) | 31 (5) | 36 (4) | 40 (4) | 44 (5) | 49 (4) | 52 |
05 (5) | 10 (4) | 40 (5) | 45 (4) | ||||||||||
Tue | 01 (5) | 06 (4) | 10 (4) | 14 (4) | 18 (5) | 23 (4) | 27 (4) | 31 (5) | 36 (4) | 40 (5) | 45 (4) | 49 (4) | 52 |
27 (5) | 32 (4) | ||||||||||||
Wed | 01 (5) | 06 (4) | 10 (4) | 14 (4) | 18 (5) | 23 (4) | 27 (5) | 32 (4) | 36 (4) | 40 (5) | 45 (4) | 49 (4) | 52 |
14 (5) | 19 (4) | 49 (5) | 53 | ||||||||||
Thu | 01 (5) | 06 (4) | 10 (4) | 14 (5) | 19 (4) | 23 (4) | 27 (5) | 32 (4) | 36 (4) | 40 (5) | 45 (4) | 49 (5) | 53 |
36 (5) | 41 (4) | ||||||||||||
Fri | 01 (4) | 05 (4) | 09 (4) | 13 (5) | 18 (4) | 22 (4) | 26 (5) | 31 (4) | 35 (5) | 40 (4) | 44 (4) | 48 (5) | 52 |
09 (5) | 14 (4) | 22 (5) | 27 (4) | ||||||||||
Sat | 01 (4) | 05 (4) | 09 (5) | 14 (4) | 18 (4) | 22 (5) | 27 (4) | 31 (4) | 35 (5) | 40 (4) | 44 (4) | 48 (5) | 52 |
31 (5) | 36 (4) | 44 (5) | 49 (4) | ||||||||||
Sun | 01 (4) | 05 (4) | 09 (5) | 14 (4) | 18 (4) | 22 (5) | 27 (4) | 31 (5) | 36 (4) | 40 (4) | 44 (5) | 49 (4) | 52 |
18 (5) | 23 (4) |