List of almanacs
This article gives a list of various almanacs. Note that almanac can also be spelled almanack, and some of the publications listed use this form.
Wikipedia almanac-type data
Printed almanacs
- Canadian Almanac & Directory, Grey House Publishing Canada, a comprehensive resource[1]
- Canadian Global Almanac (1992–2005), a book of facts about Canada and the world
- Deventer Almanak
- Encyclopædia Britannica Almanac (not the Yearbook, which is an annual update to the multi-volume encyclopedia; the almanac is a standalone publication)
- Enkhuizer Almanak
- Farmers' Almanac (1818–present)
- Kalnirnay – the world's largest yearly published almanac (1973–present) [2]
- The New York Times Almanac
- Nieropper Almanak
- O Verdadeiro Almanaque Borda D'Água (1929–present)
- Old Farmer's Almanac (1792–present)
- Schott's Almanac
- TIME Almanac with Information Please, formerly Information Please Almanac (1947–present)
- Wall Street Journal Almanac (1998[3] and 1999[4])
- Whitaker's Almanack (1868–present)
- The World Almanac and Book of Facts (1868–1876, 1886–present)
Online almanacs
- American Almanac, a traditional almanac presented as a mobile app[5]
- Canadian Almanac & Directory, Grey House Publishing Canada, an online searchable database[6]
- CIA World Factbook [7]
- Information, Please! [8]
- Sri Lanka Almanac Vidhyuth Koshaya [9]
Special-purpose almanacs
- The Almanac for Farmers & City Folk
- Almanach cracoviense ad annum 1474 (1473)
- Baer's Agricultural Almanac (1825–present)
- Blum's Farmer's and Planter's Almanac (1828-presnt)
- Grier's Almanac (1807–present)
- Harris' Farmer's Almanac (1692-present)
- J. Gruber's Hagerstown Town & Country Almanack (1797–present)
- Jewish Year Book (1896–present)
- Old Moore's Almanack (1699–present)
- Places Rated Almanac (1982–present)
- Poor Richard's Almanack (1733–1758)
- Thackers Indian Directory (1864–1960)
- Wisden Cricketers' Almanack (1864–present)
- Your Name Almanac (1934–present)
Astronomical almanacs
- Air Almanac [10]
- Astronomical Almanac
- Astronomical Phenomena [11]
- The Astronomical Pocket Diary (1987–present)
- Multiyear Interactive Computer Almanac [12]
- The Nautical Almanac (1767–present under various titles; prepared by U.S. Naval Observatory and Her Majesty's Nautical Almanac Office since 1958)
- Star Almanac for Land Surveyors [13]
Astrological almanacs
- Panjika: name of a number of Jyotisha almanacs:
- Vishuddha Siddhanta Panjika
- Gupta Press Panjika [14]
- Raphael's Ephemeris, W. Foulsham & Company Limited
Fictional almanacs
- Ankh-Morpork Almanack and Book of Days, from various Discworld novels (a version has been published as The Discworld Almanak)
- Gray's Sports Almanac, featured in Back to the Future Part II
- Klepp's Almenak, a travel guide to the islands of the Abarat from The Books of Abarat novels by Clive Barker
Almanac calculators
- Kanippayyur Shankaran Namboodiripad
- Jacob de Gelder
- Isaac Haringhuysen
- Dirck Jansz van Dam
- J. van Dam
- Jan Albertsz van Dam
- Meyndert van Dam
- Dirck Rembrantsz van Nierop
- Pieter Rembrantsz van Nierop
- Mattheus van Nispen
See also
References
- ^ Canadian Almanac & Directory
- ^ Kalnirnay
- ^ Sreenath Sreenivasan, "The Old-Fashioned Almanac Thrives in the Age of the Internet", New York Times, December 22, 1997
- ^ ISBN 978-0-345-41102-0
- ^ American Almanac
- ^ Canadian Almanac & Directory
- ^ CIA World Factbook
- ^ Infoplease
- ^ Sri Lanka Almanac Vidhyuth Koshaya
- ^ Air Almanac
- ^ Astronomical Phenomena
- ^ Multiyear Interactive Computer Almanac
- ^ Star Almanac for Land Surveyors
- ^ Gupta Press Panjika