Leap year starting on Monday

Last updated July 31, 2025

A leap year starting on Monday is any year with 366 days (i.e. it includes 29 February) that begins on Monday, 1 January, and ends on Tuesday, 31 December. Its dominical letters hence are GF. The most recent year of such kind was 2024, and the next one will be 2052 in the Gregorian calendar ^[1] or, likewise, 2008 and 2036 in the obsolete Julian calendar.

Calendars

Calendar for any leap year starting on Monday,
presented as common in many English-speaking areas

ISO 8601-conformant calendar with week numbers for
any leap year starting on Monday (dominical letter GF)

Wk	Mo	Tu	We	Th	Fr	Sa	Su
	January
01	01	02	03	04	05	06	07
02	08	09	10	11	12	13	14
03	15	16	17	18	19	20	21
04	22	23	24	25	26	27	28
05	29	30	31

Wk	Mo	Tu	We	Th	Fr	Sa	Su
	February
05				01	02	03	04
06	05	06	07	08	09	10	11
07	12	13	14	15	16	17	18
08	19	20	21	22	23	24	25
09	26	27	28	29

Wk	Mo	Tu	We	Th	Fr	Sa	Su
	March
09					01	02	03
10	04	05	06	07	08	09	10
11	11	12	13	14	15	16	17
12	18	19	20	21	22	23	24
13	25	26	27	28	29	30	31

Wk	Mo	Tu	We	Th	Fr	Sa	Su
	April
14	01	02	03	04	05	06	07
15	08	09	10	11	12	13	14
16	15	16	17	18	19	20	21
17	22	23	24	25	26	27	28
18	29	30

Wk	Mo	Tu	We	Th	Fr	Sa	Su
	May
18			01	02	03	04	05
19	06	07	08	09	10	11	12
20	13	14	15	16	17	18	19
21	20	21	22	23	24	25	26
22	27	28	29	30	31

Wk	Mo	Tu	We	Th	Fr	Sa	Su
	June
22						01	02
23	03	04	05	06	07	08	09
24	10	11	12	13	14	15	16
25	17	18	19	20	21	22	23
26	24	25	26	27	28	29	30

Wk	Mo	Tu	We	Th	Fr	Sa	Su
	July
27	01	02	03	04	05	06	07
28	08	09	10	11	12	13	14
29	15	16	17	18	19	20	21
30	22	23	24	25	26	27	28
31	29	30	31

Wk	Mo	Tu	We	Th	Fr	Sa	Su
	August
31				01	02	03	04
32	05	06	07	08	09	10	11
33	12	13	14	15	16	17	18
34	19	20	21	22	23	24	25
35	26	27	28	29	30	31

Wk	Mo	Tu	We	Th	Fr	Sa	Su
	September
35							01
36	02	03	04	05	06	07	08
37	09	10	11	12	13	14	15
38	16	17	18	19	20	21	22
39	23	24	25	26	27	28	29
40	30

Wk	Mo	Tu	We	Th	Fr	Sa	Su
	October
40		01	02	03	04	05	06
41	07	08	09	10	11	12	13
42	14	15	16	17	18	19	20
43	21	22	23	24	25	26	27
44	28	29	30	31

Wk	Mo	Tu	We	Th	Fr	Sa	Su
	November
44					01	02	03
45	04	05	06	07	08	09	10
46	11	12	13	14	15	16	17
47	18	19	20	21	22	23	24
48	25	26	27	28	29	30

Wk	Mo	Tu	We	Th	Fr	Sa	Su
	December
48							01
49	02	03	04	05	06	07	08
50	09	10	11	12	13	14	15
51	16	17	18	19	20	21	22
52	23	24	25	26	27	28	29
01	30	31

Applicable years

Gregorian Calendar

Leap years that begin on Monday, along with those starting on Saturday and Thursday, occur least frequently: 13 out of 97 (≈ 13.4%) total leap years in a 400-year cycle of the Gregorian calendar. Their overall frequency is thus 3.25% (13 out of 400) of years.

Gregorian leap years starting on Monday^[1]
Decade	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	7th	8th	10th
16th century	prior to first adoption (proleptic)								1596
17th century			1624			1652		1680
18th century		1720			1748			1776
19th century		1816			1844			1872
20th century		1912		1940			1968		1996
21st century			2024			2052		2080
22nd century		2120			2148			2176
23rd century		2216			2244			2272
24th century		2312		2340			2368		2396
25th century			2424			2452		2480
26th century		2520			2548			2576
27th century		2616			2644			2672

400-year cycle
0–99	24	52	80
100–199	120	148	176
200–299	216	244	272
300–399	312	340	368	396

Julian Calendar

Like all leap year types, the one starting with 1 January on a Monday occurs exactly once in a 28-year cycle in the Julian calendar, i.e. in 3.57% of years. As the Julian calendar repeats after 28 years that means it will also repeat after 700 years, i.e. 25 cycles. The year's position in the cycle is given by the formula ((year + 8) mod 28) + 1).

Julian leap years starting on Monday
Decade	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	7th	8th	9th	10th
14th century	1308			1336			1364			1392
15th century		1420			1448			1476
16th century	1504			1532		1560			1588
17th century		1616			1644			1672		1700
18th century			1728			1756			1784
19th century		1812		1840			1868			1896
20th century			1924			1952		1980
21st century	2008			2036			2064			2092
22nd century		2120			2148			2176

Holidays

International

Valentine's Day falls on a Wednesday
The leap day (February 29) falls on a Thursday
World Day for Grandparents and the Elderly falls on its latest possible date, July 28
Halloween falls on a Thursday
Christmas Day falls on a Wednesday

Roman Catholic Solemnities

Epiphany falls on a Saturday or, in places when it is transferred to a Sunday, January 7
Candlemas falls on a Friday
Saint Joseph's Day falls on a Tuesday
The Annunciation of Jesus falls on a Monday
The Nativity of John the Baptist falls on a Monday
The Solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul falls on a Saturday
The Transfiguration of Jesus falls on a Tuesday
The Assumption of Mary falls on a Thursday
The Exaltation of the Holy Cross falls on a Saturday
All Saints' Day falls on a Friday
All Souls' Day falls on a Saturday
The Feast of Christ the King falls on November 24 (or on October 27 in versions of the calendar between 1925 and 1962)
The First Sunday of Advent falls on December 1
The Immaculate Conception falls on a Sunday, thus transferred to Monday, December 9.
Gaudete Sunday falls on December 15
Rorate Sunday falls on December 22

Australia and New Zealand

Australia Day falls on a Friday
Waitangi Day falls on a Tuesday
Daylight saving ends on its latest possible date, April 7 – the period of daylight saving which ends on April 7 of a leap year starting on Monday is the only period ending in any year to last 27 weeks in Australia and 28 weeks in New Zealand; in all other instances, the period of daylight saving lasts only 26 weeks in Australia and 27 weeks in New Zealand
ANZAC Day falls on a Thursday
Mother's Day falls on May 12
Father's Day falls on its earliest possible date, September 1
Daylight saving begins on September 29 in New Zealand and October 6 in Australia

United States

Martin Luther King Jr. Day falls on its earliest possible date, January 15
President's Day falls on February 19
Daylight saving begins on March 10
Mother's Day falls on May 12
Memorial Day falls on May 27
Father's Day falls on June 16
Juneteenth falls on a Wednesday
Independence Day falls on a Thursday
Labor Day falls on September 2
Grandparents' Day falls on September 8
Columbus Day falls on its latest possible date, October 14 (this is the only year when Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Columbus Day are 39 weeks apart) They are 38 weeks apart in all other years
Daylight saving ends on November 3
Election Day falls on November 5
Thanksgiving Day falls on its latest possible date, November 28 (this is also the only year when Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Thanksgiving are 318 days apart) They are 311 days apart in all other years

References

1 2 Robert van Gent (2017). "The Mathematics of the ISO 8601 Calendar". Utrecht University, Department of Mathematics. Retrieved 20 July 2017.

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[math-1] 1 2 Robert van Gent (2017). "The Mathematics of the ISO 8601 Calendar". Utrecht University, Department of Mathematics. Retrieved 20 July 2017.

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Leap year starting on Monday

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