Name

Number

Length in a Deficient Year

Length in a Regular Year

Length in a Complete Year

Gregorian Equivalent

Important Feast Days

Nisan

1 or 7

30 days

30 days

30 days

March-April

Passover and Feast of Unleavened Bread

Iyar

2 or 8

29 days

29 days

29 days

April-May

Sivan

3 or 9

30 days

30 days

30 days

May-June

Feast of Pentecost

Tammuz

4 or 10

29 days

29 days

29 days

June-July

Av

5 or 11

30 day

30 day

30 day

July-August

Elul

6 or 12

29 days

29 days

29 days

August-September

Tishri

7 or 1

30 days

30 days

30 days

September-October

Feast of Trumpets(a) Feast of Ingathering

Cheshvan (b)

8 or 2

29 days

29 days

30 days

October-November

Kislev(b)

9 or 3

29 days

30 days

30 days

November-December

Tevet

10 or 4

29 days

29 days

29 days

December-January

Shevat

11 or 5

30 days

30 days

30 days

January-February

Adar(c)

12 or 6

29 or 30 days

29 or 30 days

29 or 30 days

February-March

Adar II(d)

13

29 days

29 days

29 days

February-March

  1. Trumpets, Feast of: was celebrated at the beginning of the month Tishri, the first month of the civil year. It received its name from the circumstances that the trumpets usually blown at the commencement of each month were on that occasion blown with unusual solemnity (Lev. 23:23-25; Num. 10:10; 29:1-6). It was one of the seven days of holy convocation.
  2. The length of Cheshvan and Kislev are determined by complex calculations involving the time of day of the full moon of the following year's Tishri and the day of the week that Tishri would occur in the following year. There are plenty of easily accessible computer programs that will calculate the Jewish calendar for more than a millennium to come (Download Page see Fourmilab's Hebrew calendar converter).
  3. In leap years, Adar has 30 days. In non-leap years, Adar has 29 days.
  4. Adar II: Also called "Adar Sheni," or "Veadar," this month of 29 days is added about once every three years in order to adjust the Jewish calendar of 354 days to the solar calendar. Adar II falls between Adar and Nisan in late February and early March.

Note: The number of days between Nissan and Tishri is always the same. Because of this, the time from the first major festival (Passover in Nissan) to the last major festival (Ingathering in Tishri) is always the same.