About this calendar
A calendar on a screen tells you what day it is. A calendar on the wall is where the family writes *dentist, 3pm* and everyone sees it on the way past. This one is built for the second job: the day cells are as big as the paper allows, because a cell you cannot write in is just decoration.
Pick a month, press Download PDF, print it. There is nothing to sign up for and nothing is sent anywhere.
Two layouts
- A month to a page — the wall calendar. The grid takes whatever height is left on the page, so on A4 landscape each day is a box you can genuinely write three or four words in. Print one month, or three, six or twelve in one go.
- A year on one page — the sheet you pin up in January. Twelve small months, day numbers only, with any dates you marked picked out in bold. Good for planning leave, term dates, or counting how many Fridays are left.
Mark your own dates
Type them in the box, one per line:
- 25 Rent due — a bare day number, so it repeats on the 25th of every month
- 2026-12-25 Christmas — a full date, so it appears on that day only
The label prints small inside the day. Up to three fit in a cell; more than that and the cell would be unreadable rather than useful. On the year sheet there is no room for words, so a marked day is printed in bold instead.
Your dates stay in this browser, on this computer, so next time you come back they are still there. Nothing leaves the machine — a family calendar carries names, appointments and who is away when.
The settings that matter on paper
- Week starts — Monday or Sunday.
- Orientation — landscape gives wider day cells and more room to write; portrait fits a taller grid and suits a narrow space.
- Text size — nudges everything together, for a calendar read across a kitchen or close up at a desk.
- Show days from the months either side — the greyed-out numbers that fill the first and last rows. On by default; turn them off for a cleaner grid.
- Week numbers — off by default. They mean nothing to most people and a great deal to the people who need them.
- Print lines to write on — faint rules inside each empty day. They appear only where there is no marked date, because a ruled cell with an event already in it reads as a mistake.
- Shade the weekend — a very light tint so Saturday and Sunday are findable at a glance.
Nothing is uploaded
The PDF is built in your browser with a real PDF library, so it is crisp at any print size and Latin text stays selectable in a PDF reader. The preview is the finished PDF rendered page by page, not a mock-up of it, so what you see is what prints.
What people print
- A family calendar for the fridge or the kitchen wall
- A shift or rota sheet with the month's pattern written in
- A term planner with the holidays already marked
- A year-to-view sheet for booking leave
- A project month with deadlines on the days they fall
Good to know
- Output is a real PDF — vector lines and text, not a picture of a calendar, so it is crisp at any print size
- It is laid out to print whole at Actual size (100%), so the boxes come out at the millimetres you chose. You do not need “fit to printable area” — that setting shrinks the page by a few per cent and takes the measurements with it.
- There is a Word version too, as a real editable table, for when the sheet has to be changed by someone who only has Word
- Print opens the PDF in its own tab and starts the print dialog, so the paper size and orientation come from the calendar itself
- Every page carries a small grey line at its foot — *Created at https://appandtools.com/tool/…* — with a QR code for the same address, so a sheet on a wall leads back to what made it. Turn it off in one click.
- Japanese, Korean and Chinese work. Month and day names come from your language, and the page fetches a font that can draw them
- For tasks against days rather than a calendar grid, use Printable Monthly Checklist
- To count working days between two dates, use Business Days Calculator
How to use it
- Pick the starting month with the arrows, or press *This month*
- Choose a month to a page or a year on one page
- Give it a title if it needs one — a family name, a project, a room
- Type any dates to mark, one per line
- Set the orientation and text size to suit where it will hang
- Press Download PDF and print it, or Print to go straight to the dialog
Related tools
- Printable Monthly Checklist — tasks against every day of the month
- Printable Weekly Checklist — a week per page, a box for every day
- Printable Checklist Maker — a plain list with tick boxes
- Business Days Calculator — working days between two dates
- Date Calculator — add or subtract days from a date
- Countdown to Date — how long until the day
