List of almanacs explained

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

• List of reference tables

Printed almanacs

• Barbanera Almanac (1762–present)
• 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 (founded in 1595, and the oldest known copy of it dates back to 1596)
• Farmers' Almanac (1818–present)
• Kalnirnay – the world's largest yearly published almanac (1973–present) ^[2]
• The New York Times Almanac (1969–2011)
• Nieropper Almanak
• O Verdadeiro Almanaque Borda D'Água (1929–present)
• Old Farmer's Almanac (1792–present)
• Schott's Almanac
• A Sound Word Almanac (2023)^[3]
• TIME Almanac with Information Please, formerly Information Please Almanac (1947–2013)
• Wall Street Journal Almanac (1998^[4] and 1999^[5])
• Whitaker's Almanack (1868–present)
• The World Almanac and Book of Facts (1868–1876, 1886–present)
• (1974-2015)

Online almanacs

• American Almanac, a traditional almanac presented as a mobile app^[6]
• Canadian Almanac & Directory, Grey House Publishing Canada, an online searchable database^[7]
• CIA World Factbook ^[8]
• Information, Please! ^[9]
• Sri Lanka Almanac Vidhyuth Koshaya ^[10]

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–present)
• 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)
• Kulavruttanta (1915–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 ^[11]
• Astronomical Almanac
• Astronomical Phenomena ^[12]
• The Astronomical Pocket Diary (1987–present)
• Multiyear Interactive Computer Almanac ^[13]
• 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 ^[14]

Astrological almanacs

• Panjika: name of a number of Jyotisha almanacs:
  • Vishuddha Siddhanta Panjika
  • Gupta Press Panjika ^[15]
• 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

Satirical almanacs

• The Areas of My Expertise (2005)

Sports almanacs

• Athletic Almanac by Spalding Athletic Library

See also

• American almanacs

Notes and References

1. Web site: Canadian Almanac and Directory | Grey House Publishing Canada. greyhouse.ca.
2. Web site: Kalnirnay | India's Premier Almanac Maker | Buy Calmanac Online. Kalnirnay.
3. Web site: 14 Dec 2023 . 2023 . Herzogenrath . Bernd . A Sound Word Almanac . 2023-08-27 . Bloomsbury . en . 9798765109052.
4. Sreenath Sreenivasan, "The Old-Fashioned Almanac Thrives in the Age of the Internet", New York Times, December 22, 1997
5. Book: 978-0-345-41102-0. The Wall Street Journal Almanac 1999. Journal. Wall Street. November 1998.
6. Web site: American Almanac . March 7, 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170516225952/http://americanalmanac.net/ . May 16, 2017 . dead .
7. Web site: CIRC. circ.greyhouse.ca.
8. Web site: CIA World Factbook. https://web.archive.org/web/20070601020457/https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/. live. June 1, 2007.
9. Web site: Infoplease: An Online Encyclopedia, Almanac, Atlas, Biographies, Dictionary, and Thesaurus. www.infoplease.com.
10. Web site: Sri Lanka Almanac Vidhyuth Koshaya . March 7, 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110121055844/http://www.sri-lanka-almanac.com/ . January 21, 2011 . dead .
11. http://aa.usno.navy.mil/publications/docs/aira.php Air Almanac
12. http://aa.usno.navy.mil/publications/docs/ap.php Astronomical Phenomena
13. http://aa.usno.navy.mil/software/mica/micainfo.php Multiyear Interactive Computer Almanac
14. Web site: Star Almanac for Land Surveyors. https://web.archive.org/web/20061001062347/http://www.nao.rl.ac.uk/nao/publicat/. dead. October 1, 2006.
15. Web site: Gupta Press Panjika . February 26, 2010 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160110051820/http://guptapresspanjika.com/ . January 10, 2016 . dead .