Bangla Date Today
As of Tuesday, May 19, 2026 at 11:31 PM, today's Bangla / Bengali (Bangabda) date is:
Today's Bangla / Bengali (Bangabda) date — full detail
- Date
- 4 Jyoishtho 1433 BS
- Bengali
- ৪ জ্যৈষ্ঠ ১৪৩৩
- Short form
- Jyoishtho 4, 1433
- Year
- 2026 Bangabda (বঙ্গাব্দ) — "the Bengal year"
- Weekday
- Sombar (Monday)
- Gregorian
- Tuesday, May 19, 2026
- Current Bangabda year
- 1433 BS
- Era name
- বঙ্গাব্দ (Bangabda) — "Bengal year"
- Year conversion
- Gregorian − 593 = Bangabda year (approximate)
- New Year
- Pohela Boishakh — 14 April (Bangladesh civil) / 14–15 April (West Bengal sidereal)
- Twelve months
- Boishakh, Jyoishtho, Asharh, Shrabon, Bhadro, Ashshin, Kartik, Ogrohayon, Poush, Magh, Falgun, Choitro
- Two variants
- Bangladesh civil (1987 reform, fixed lengths) and West Bengal sidereal (variable)
Why today matters
Today is the 4th of Jyoishtho (৪ জ্যৈষ্ঠ) — the second month of the Bengali year and the season of mangoes (aam) and jackfruit (kathal). In Bengal, Jyoishtho is the month when the famous aam-kathal-ilish trinity (mango, jackfruit, and hilsa fish) is at peak — and family elders are traditionally invited for the season's first mangoes. The month also contains Buddha Purnima (the full moon, commemorating the Buddha) and, in some years, the early days of the Kala-baisakhi nor'westers — Bengal's famously violent pre-monsoon thunderstorms.
জ্যৈষ্ঠ মাসে আম পাকে — <em>Jyoishtho mase aam paake</em> — "In Jyoishtho, mangoes ripen." — Bengali proverb
How we compute this
Bangla / Bengali (Bangabda) is a solar (sidereal, with regional variations) calendar. Each year contains 365 days; 366 in leap years (Bangladesh civil version), with each month averaging 30–31 days (Bangladesh 1987 reform); 29–32 days (West Bengal sidereal version). Years are counted from 593–594 CE — traditional starting year, linked to either King Shashanka of Gauda or to Mughal-era tax reforms (era: Bangabda (বঙ্গাব্দ) — "the Bengal year").
The Bengali calendar was formalized during the reign of the Mughal emperor Akbar (1556–1605 CE) by his court astronomer Fathullah Shirazi, who reconciled the existing Hindu sidereal solar calendar with the Islamic Hijri calendar for tax-collection purposes — aligning the harvest season with the agricultural tax year. The era count itself is older, traditionally linked to either the 7th-century King Shashanka of Gauda or directly to the Hijri year of Akbar's accession (594 CE was identified as the Hijri year 963, which Akbar adjusted to be year 963 Bangabda — and the count has continued from there in solar years rather than lunar). In 1987, the Bangladesh government formally reformed the calendar to fix month lengths at standardized 30 or 31 days, dropping the older sidereal variability — this is now the official Bangladeshi civil calendar. West Bengal in India preserved the older sidereal version, where month boundaries are set by sidereal solar transits and can vary by a day from year to year. So today's Bangla date may differ by a day between Dhaka and Kolkata.
Used by: ~280 million Bengali speakers — the world's sixth most-spoken language. Regions: Bangladesh (where it shares official civil use with Gregorian), West Bengal and Tripura (India), the Bengali diaspora across the UK, USA, Canada, Middle East, and elsewhere.