Bahai Date Today
As of Tuesday, May 19, 2026 at 11:31 PM, today's Bahá'í (Badí') date is:
Today's Bahá'í (Badí') date — full detail
- Date
- 3 'Aẓamat 183 BE
- Arabic transliteration
- 3 'Aẓamat 183 BE
- Short form
- 183-4-3
- Month
- 'Aẓamat
- Year
- 183 BE — Badí' (بديع, literally 'wonderful', 'new', or 'unprecedented')
- Gregorian
- Tuesday, May 19, 2026
- Current BE year
- 183 BE — the 183th year of the Badí' era
- 19 months
- Bahá, Jalál, Jamál, 'Aẓamat, Núr, Raḥmat, Kalimát, Kamál, Asmá, 'Izzat, Mashíyyat, 'Ilm, Qudrat, Qawl, Masá'il, Sharaf, Sulṭán, Mulk, 'Alá'
- 19 days per month
- Same names as the months (Bahá, Jalál, Jamál...) — each day is named after the same divine attribute, on a rotating basis
- New Year
- Naw-Rúz — vernal equinox (20 or 21 March)
- Intercalary days
- Ayyám-i-Há — 4 or 5 days between months 18 and 19 — dedicated to hospitality and charity
- Fasting period
- Final 19-day month ('Alá') — dawn-to-sunset fast for those aged 15–70 in normal health
Why today matters
Today is 3 'Aẓamat 183 BE. The Bahá'í calendar is unique among the world's major calendar systems: every month and every day is named after an attribute of God, transforming the very act of dating into an act of remembrance. Each month begins with the Nineteen-Day Feast — a triple gathering of devotion (prayers and readings from Bahá'í scripture), consultation (community business and decision-making), and fellowship (food and conversation) — held in every Bahá'í community worldwide at the start of each 19-day month. The day-name attribute also rotates: this same calendar structure means today is sacred to a particular divine quality, with the prayers and meditations of observant Bahá'ís oriented toward that attribute.
"The new Day of God hath dawned, and the morn of His ancient promise hath broken." — Bahá'u'lláh, <em>Kitáb-i-Aqdas</em>
How we compute this
Bahá'í (Badí') is a solar (astronomical) calendar. Each year contains 365 or 366 days, structured as 19 months × 19 days + 4 or 5 intercalary <em>Ayyám-i-Há</em> days, with each month averaging 19 days exactly — the only major world calendar with a 19-day month. Years are counted from 21 March 1844 CE — the declaration of the Báb in Shiraz, marking the start of the Bahá'í era (era: BE — Badí' (بديع, literally 'wonderful', 'new', or 'unprecedented')).
The Badí' ("wonderful") calendar was instituted by the Báb (Sayyid 'Alí Muḥammad Shírází, 1819–1850) in 1844, and refined by Bahá'u'lláh (1817–1892) — the founder of the Bahá'í Faith. The calendar marks the start of a new spiritual era: year 1 of the Badí' calendar corresponds to 21 March 1844, the date the Báb made his initial declaration in Shíráz, Persia. The structure of 19 months × 19 days is mystically significant: 19 is the number of letters in the Arabic Bismillāh (بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم), and was a central numerical symbol in the early Bábí and Bahá'í movements. The four or five intercalary days, Ayyám-i-Há, are placed between the 18th and 19th months and are dedicated to hospitality, gift-giving, service to others, and preparation for the Nineteen-Day Fast that occupies the final month. The Bahá'í New Year — Naw-Rúz — falls on the spring equinox (20 or 21 March), inheriting the ancient Persian astronomical tradition. The Universal House of Justice — the supreme governing body of the Bahá'í Faith, based in Haifa, Israel — formalized the modern calendar\'s astronomical basis in 2014, anchoring Naw-Rúz to the actual moment of the vernal equinox observed in Tehran.
Used by: Approximately 8 million Bahá'ís worldwide. Regions: Practiced in over 200 countries and territories — the most geographically widespread independent religion after Christianity.