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Nowruz

New year of the Solar Hijri calendar: haft-sin table, spring cleaning, visits and gifts. UNESCO Representative List; UN International Day of Nowruz, 21 March.

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Saturday, 21 March 2026
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  1. Ali Shariati (2017). Nowruz. Iranian Studies. DOI 10.5040/9798216184843.0040
  2. Amin Karimnia, Shidak Rahbarian (2017). Rouhani’s and Obama’s Persian New Year messages: A systemic functional grammar perspective. ExELL. DOI 10.2478/exell-2018-0002
  3. Purnima Sharma, Nazir Ahmad Yosufi (2018). Nowruz – New Year. Zenodo. DOI 10.5281/zenodo.7904972
  4. Rizoi Bakhromzod (2024). Nowruz, Umar Khayyam, Calendar and Constellations. arXiv. DOI 10.48550/arxiv.2410.04053
  5. Nowruz, n. (2023). Oxford University Press eBooks. DOI 10.1093/oed/1186463510

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01Dates

Computed for 2026 to 2030.

GregorianSolar HijriLunar HijriNote
Farvardin 1, 1405 APShawwal 2, 1447 AHEquinox at 14:45 UTC (18:15 in Tehran)
Farvardin 1, 1406 APShawwal 13, 1448 AHEquinox at 20:24 UTC (23:54 in Tehran)
Farvardin 1, 1407 APShawwal 24, 1449 AHEquinox at 02:17 UTC (05:47 in Tehran)
Farvardin 1, 1408 APDhuʻl-Qiʻdah 5, 1450 AHEquinox at 08:01 UTC (11:31 in Tehran)
Farvardin 1, 1409 APDhuʻl-Qiʻdah 16, 1451 AHEquinox at 13:51 UTC (17:21 in Tehran)

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02How the date is set

1 Farvardin in the Solar Hijri calendar. Its Gregorian date moves by a day between years. The year turns at the moment of the March equinox.

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03Where it is observed

Iran, Afghanistan, Central Asia, the Caucasus, Kurdish regions and diaspora communities

04In the Academy

Faculties
Faculty of Iranian and Persianate Studies, Faculty of Humanities, Faculty of Natural Sciences
Disciplines
Iranian food and everyday culture, Ancient Iran, Heritage studies, Astronomy and astrophysics

  • Iranian food and everyday culture · Foundations

    Nowruz and the Iranian calendar

    Nowruz, its customs and the solar calendar that sets it, shared by many peoples and faiths.

    Wave 1 · 6 h Outline drafted

05Convenings on this day

No convening is announced for this day yet. Chapters list theirs here once confirmed.

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06Sources

07Other festival days

  • Wednesday, 18 March 2026 · Community day

    Chaharshanbe Suri

    Jumping over bonfires to leave the year’s ills behind.

    چهارشنبه‌سوری

  • Thursday, 2 April 2026 · Community day

    Sizdah Bedar

    Picnics outdoors; knotted sabzeh is cast into running water.

    سیزده‌بدر

  • Saturday, 4 July 2026 · Community day

    Tirgan

    Water festival; its organisers describe the Toronto Tirgan festival as the largest Iranian cultural festival outside Iran.

    تیرگان

  • Thursday, 8 October 2026 · Community day

    Mehregan

    Autumn festival of friendship, of Zoroastrian origin.

    مهرگان

  • Tuesday, 22 December 2026 · Community day

    Yalda (Shab-e Chelleh)

    Longest night: pomegranates, watermelon, nuts and Hafez divination; UNESCO inscription 2022.

    شب یلدا

  • Friday, 30 January 2026 · Community day

    Sadeh

    Midwinter fire festival of Zoroastrian origin.

    سده

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APA

Iranian Diaspora Cooperation & Development Council. (2026). Nowruz. iranians.global. https://iranians.global/heritage/calendar/nowruz/

Chicago

Iranian Diaspora Cooperation & Development Council. 2026. “Nowruz.” iranians.global. https://iranians.global/heritage/calendar/nowruz/.

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	title = {Nowruz},
	url = {https://iranians.global/heritage/calendar/nowruz/},
	howpublished = {https://iranians.global/heritage/calendar/nowruz/},
}

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08Research and sources

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  1. Nowruz

    Ali Shariati · 2017 · Iranian Studies

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  2. Rouhani’s and Obama’s Persian New Year messages: A systemic functional grammar perspective

    Amin Karimnia, Shidak Rahbarian · 2017 · ExELL

    ArticleOpenAlexCrossrefDOAJOpen accessCC-BY-NC-ND

  3. Nowruz – New Year

    Purnima Sharma, Nazir Ahmad Yosufi · 2018 · Zenodo

    ArticleDataCiteZenodoOpen accessCC-BY-4.0

  4. Nowruz, Umar Khayyam, Calendar and Constellations

    Rizoi Bakhromzod · 2024 · arXiv

    PreprintDataCitearXivOpen accessCC-BY-4.0

  5. Nowruz, n.

    2023 · Oxford University Press eBooks

    OtherOpenAlexCrossref

  6. The Naturalistic Settings and Socially Construction of Peace and Friendship in the Iranian Nowruz Ritual

    D. Gharayagh Zandi, S. Makouee · 2019 · Taḥqīqāt-i Farhangī-i Īrān

    ArticleDOAJOpen access

  7. Media Diplomacy in the Cultural Convergence of the Nowruz Region

    A. Basir Mesbah, Ghawsuddin Hafid, Sayed Borhan Altafe · 2026 · Multidisciplinary Journal of Education , Economic and Culture

    ArticleOpenAIREOpen access

  8. The Comparative Study of Benefits Distribution Between Parrties of Buy Back, Production Sharing Contract and Iran Petrouleum Contracts (IPC) (A Case Study of Soroush and Nowruz Oil Fields)

    Sharareh Kavosi, Mohammad Ali Falahi, Mohammad Javad Razmi · 2018 · Pizhūhishnāmah-i Iqtiṣād-i Inirzhī-i Īrān

    ArticleDOAJOpen access

  9. Nowruz at SemEval-2022 Task 7: Tackling Cloze Tests with Transformers and Ordinal Regression

    Mohammadmahdi Nouriborji, Omid Rohanian, David Clifton · 2022 · arXiv

    PreprintDataCitearXivOpen accessCC-BY-4.0

  10. The Revival of Nowruz and Mehregan Celebrations in the Abbasi Court 132-220 AH)

    2021 · دانشگاه تبریز

    ArticleOpenAIRE

  11. Persian New Year, 1958.

    Hecht [Photographer] · 2012 · University of Southern California Digital Library (USC.DL)

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  12. What is Nowruz, the Iranian new year?

    Darius Sepehri · 2026 · The Conversation Media Group Ltd

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