Days Until Hanukkah (reference)
Days until Hanukkah (reference)
Actual date follows the Hebrew lunisolar calendar and shifts every year; treated here as a reference/awareness page, not a fixed recurring date.
About Hanukkah (reference)
Hanukkah, the Jewish Festival of Lights commemorating the rededication of the Second Temple in Jerusalem, follows the Hebrew lunisolar calendar and typically falls in late November or December, with its exact Gregorian start date shifting every year.
Unlike the Islamic calendar's roughly 11-day-per-year drift, the Hebrew calendar periodically inserts a leap month specifically to keep its holidays anchored to the same general season — so Hanukkah's date wanders less wildly year to year, but still doesn't land on a single fixed Gregorian date, which is why it's kept as a reference/awareness page here.
The Hebrew calendar's leap-month insertion happens in 7 of every 19 years under a fixed cycle devised in antiquity, a genuinely different mechanism from the Gregorian calendar's simpler every-4-years leap day rule covered on this site's Leap Year Checker.
The eight-night festival commemorates the rededication of the Second Temple and the associated legend of a single day's supply of oil lasting eight days, the origin of the holiday's distinctive eight-branched menorah.
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