Common year

This article is about a 365-day year. For the calendar era, see Common Era. For the fictional date system in Dungeons & Dragons, see Common Year (Greyhawk).

A common year is a calendar year with 365 days. More generally, a common year is one without intercalation. The Gregorian calendar, (like the earlier Julian calendar), employs both common years and leap years to keep the calendar aligned with the tropical year, which does not contain an exact number of days.

The common year of 365 days has 52 weeks and one day, hence a common year always begins and ends on the same day of the week (for example, January 1 and December 31 fell on a Sunday in 2017) and the year following a common year will start on the subsequent day of the week. In common years, February has four weeks, so March will begin on the same day of the week. November will also begin on this day.

In the Gregorian calendar, 303 of every 400 years are common years. By comparison, in the Julian calendar, 300 out of every 400 years are common years, and in the Revised Julian calendar (used by Greece) 682 out of every 900 years are common years.

Calendars

• Common year starting on Sunday
• Common year starting on Monday
• Common year starting on Tuesday
• Common year starting on Wednesday
• Common year starting on Thursday
• Common year starting on Friday
• Common year starting on Saturday