hebrewdate 2.0.1

A Python package for handling Hebrew dates

hebrewdate

A comprehensive Python library for working with the Hebrew calendar, providing date conversions, calendar generation, and holiday information.

It offers four main classes:

• HebrewDate: Represents a specific date in the Hebrew calendar, with support for conversions to/from Gregorian dates, manipulation of dates (e.g., adding or subtracting days, months, or years), and various date-related attributes such as day, month, year, and weekday in the Hebrew calendar.
• HebrewYear: Represents a Hebrew year, managing leap year calculations, month lengths, and determining the first weekday of the year.
• HebrewCalendar: Extends Python's built-in Calendar class to provide Hebrew calendar functionality, including methods for iterating over month days and converting between Hebrew and Gregorian dates.
• HTMLHebrewCalendar: Provides HTML formatting of Hebrew calendar data with support for both Hebrew and Gregorian date display, selection layers for holidays, festive days, and fasts, custom CSS styling.

Key Features:

• Conversion between Hebrew and Gregorian dates.
• Support for Hebrew holidays, festive days, and fasts.
• Computation of weekdays, month lengths, and leap years for Hebrew dates.
• Operations for date arithmetic, such as adding and subtracting days, months, and years.
• Methods for getting today's Hebrew date or constructing a Hebrew date from a Gregorian date.
• Calendar iteration and formatting for Hebrew dates in HTML format.
• Generate HTML calendars with customizable styling.
• Support for generating complete calendar pages for months and years.

Limitations:

• Supported Python versions: 3.9 and later
• Date conversions before 1752 CE may be inaccurate due to historical and calendar system variations.
• Dates far in the past may not be convertible to Gregorian dates

Installation

pip install hebrewdate

Usage

>>> from hebrewdate import HebrewDate, HTMLHebrewCalendar
# Get today's Hebrew date
>>> today = HebrewDate.today()
>>> print(today)
e.g. יום ראשון א ניסן ה'תשפ"ה
# Convert to Gregorian
>>> print(today.to_gregorian())
e.g. 2025-03-30

# Convert from Gregorian to Hebrew
>>> h = HebrewDate.from_gregorian(13, 4, 2025)
# Check holiday
>>> if h.is_holiday:
...     print(pesach.holiday)
...
יו"ט ראשון של פסח

# Generate an HTML calendar
cal = HTMLHebrewCalendar(with_gregorian=False)
html = cal.formatmonth(5785, 1) # תשרי ה'תשפ"ה

Contribution

Contributions are welcome! Feel free to submit a Pull Request.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License. See the LICENSE file for details.

Author

Isaac Dovolsky © 2025