Mayan Date Today
As of Tuesday, May 19, 2026 at 11:30 PM, today's Mayan (Long Count + Tzolkin + Haab) date is:
Today's Mayan (Long Count + Tzolkin + Haab) date — full detail
- Date
- Long Count 13.0.13.10.17
- Classical Maya
- 13.0.13.10.17
- Short form
- 13.0.13.10.17
- Year
- 2026 Long Count — continuous day-count from the creation
- Gregorian
- Tuesday, May 19, 2026
- Long Count
- 13.0.13.10.17
- Tzolkin
- 13 Kab'an
- Haab
- 10 Sip
- Today's Long Count
- 13.0.13.10.17
- Today's Tzolkin
- 13 Kab'an
- Today's Haab
- 10 Sip
- Long Count epoch
- 11 August 3114 BCE (Goodman-Martínez-Thompson correlation)
- Calendar Round length
- 52 years (18,980 days) — Tzolkin × Haab least common multiple
- 20 Tzolkin day names
- Imix, Ik', Ak'b'al, K'an, Chikchan, Kimi, Manik', Lamat, Muluk, Ok, Chuwen, Eb', B'en, Ix, Men, K'ib', Kab'an, Etz'nab', Kawak, Ajaw
- 18 Haab months + Wayeb
- Pop, Wo', Sip, Sotz', Sek, Xul, Yaxk'in, Mol, Ch'en, Yax, Sak, Keh, Mak, K'ank'in, Muwan, Pax, K'ayab, Kumk'u, Wayeb'
Why today matters
Today's Mayan Long Count is 13.0.13.10.17. Today's Tzolkin (sacred 260-day count): 13 Kab'an. Today's Haab (365-day civil): 10 Sip. The three calendars run independently and interlock to produce the Calendar Round — a 52-year cycle (18,980 days) after which the same Tzolkin-Haab combination repeats. For the classical Maya of the 3rd-9th centuries CE, every date had three names: a Long Count position (linear time from creation), a Tzolkin signature (ritual energy), and a Haab signature (agricultural-civil season). All three were carved on stelae, painted in codices, and used in divination, agriculture, and historical record-keeping.
"The Mayan calendar did not 'end' in 2012. It ticked over from 12.19.19.17.19 to 13.0.0.0.0 — like an odometer rolling from 999999 to 1000000. The world did not need to end for that."
How we compute this
Mayan (Long Count + Tzolkin + Haab) is a astronomical / mythological calendar. Each year contains Haab (civil): 365 days exactly (18 × 20 + 5 Wayeb' days, no leap year); Tzolkin (ritual): 260 days (13 × 20), with each month averaging 20 days for each of the 18 Haab months; 5 days for the final Wayeb' "unlucky" period. Years are counted from 11 August 3114 BCE — the mythological date of the current creation (4 Ahau 8 Kumk'u in the Maya reckoning) (era: Long Count — continuous day-count from the creation).
The Maya were among history's greatest astronomical observers. They produced one of the world's most sophisticated calendar systems, used continuously from at least the 4th century BCE (the earliest known Long Count date is from a stela dated 36 BCE) through the Spanish conquest in the 16th century. The classical Maya kept three interlocking cycles: Long Count, a linear day count from creation, used for historical record-keeping on stelae; Tzolkin, a 260-day sacred round combining 13 numbers with 20 day-names — used for divination, naming children, agriculture, and ritual scheduling; and Haab, a 365-day civil calendar of 18 × 20-day months plus a final 5-day "unlucky" period called Wayeb'. The interlock of Tzolkin and Haab produces the Calendar Round, a 52-year cycle. The Long Count uses 5 positions counted in vigesimal (base-20) units: kin (1 day), winal (20 days), tun (360 days), katun (7,200 days), and baktun (144,000 days). The famous 2012 "doomsday" was simply the rollover from baktun 12 to baktun 13 — no Maya source ever predicted destruction; this was a modern misreading of Mayan eschatology. Today, Mayan calendar specialists (aj kij) continue to keep the Tzolkin count in Guatemalan highland communities, advising on naming, agriculture, and ritual timing — an unbroken transmission of over 2,000 years.
Used by: ~6 million speakers of Mayan languages still living in their ancestral lands. Regions: Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, El Salvador, southern Mexico (Yucatán, Chiapas, Quintana Roo, Tabasco) — and the global Maya diaspora.