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Occasion packages

Zij never forces an occasion on you. Each package is an open, sourced list you can switch on or off in the app. Here you can browse them all.

Iranian festivals

Ancient Iranian festivals and cultural events

29 occasions · 1 official holidays in Iran · Version 2.0.0 · CC-BY-4.0

Contemporary Iran

Everything on a standard Iranian calendar: official holidays like Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha, alongside named civic days like Teachers' Day. For example, if 14 Khordad or 22 Bahman shows as a public holiday this year, it comes from this package.

119 occasions · 23 official holidays in Iran · Version 3.1.0 · CC-BY-4.0

Sky

Equinoxes, solstices, moon phases and meteor showers, computed by the app's own astronomical engine. The vernal equinox is the exact moment of the Iranian new year, and the Perseids peak every summer. Full and new moons are marked every month too.

22 occasions · Version 3.0.0 · CC-BY-4.0

World days

Halloween, commercial Christmas, and popular international observance days. 31 October is Halloween, 25 December is Christmas with its Santa Claus imagery, and throughout the year a handful of UN-style international days like World Environment Day are marked too.

36 occasions · Version 3.1.0 · CC-BY-4.0

Islamic

Islamic lunar observances on the Hijri calendar, covering both Shia and Sunni tradition. Ashura, Eid al-Fitr, Eid al-Adha and Ghadir Khumm are all computed from the lunar calendar, arriving about ten days earlier each Gregorian year.

49 occasions · 16 official holidays in Iran · Version 3.1.0 · CC-BY-4.0

Christian

Christian liturgical observances on the Gregorian calendar, covering both Western and Orthodox tradition. Christmas falls on a fixed 25 December each year, but Easter is computed anew every year, with Lent beginning forty-six days before it.

39 occasions · Version 3.1.0 · CC-BY-4.0

Jewish

Jewish observances on the Hebrew calendar. Rosh Hashanah opens the Jewish new year, Yom Kippur — the holiest day — follows ten days later, and Passover in spring celebrates the exodus from slavery in Egypt.

23 occasions · Version 3.1.0 · CC-BY-4.0

Zoroastrian

Zoroastrian religious feasts based on day-name and month-name correspondences on the Fasli calendar. Nowruz opens the religious year, Mehregan is the greatest feast after it, and the six Gahambars mark the agricultural seasons through the year.

24 occasions · Version 3.1.0 · CC-BY-4.0