Bangla Calendar

The Bangla Calendar is the traditional calendar used in Bangladesh and Bangla (Bengali)-speaking regions of India. The calendar is based on the solar year. New Year's Day falls between 13 April and 15 April.

Rule of Leap Year

According to the new calendar system, Choitro has 31 days every four years. To keep pace with the Gregorian calendar, the leap years are not years that are divisible by four. They are the years where the corresponding Gregorian Calendar year is leap year. (e.g., 2004 was a leap year, so the corresponding year 1410 was a leap year. (The month of February in 2004 falls in 1410 according to the Bengali Calendar.)

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The first of Boishakh, Pôhela Boishakh, is the Bengali New Year's Day. In Bangladesh, it is celebrated on April 14 every year according to the reformed calendar prepared by the Bangla Academy. However, since the people of the West Bengal follow the previous non-reformed calendar (which is not fixed with respect to the Western calendar), it celebrates the Bengali New Year's Day (Pôhela Boishakh) on April 15.

Related Topics:
Pôhela Boishakh - April 14 - Bangla Academy

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