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
[edit]Printed almanacs
[edit]- 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)
- Almanaque Abril (1974-2015)
Online almanacs
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- Panjika: name of a number of Jyotisha almanacs:
- Vishuddha Siddhanta Panjika
- Gupta Press Panjika [15]
- Raphael's Ephemeris, W. Foulsham & Company Limited
Fictional almanacs
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- The Areas of My Expertise (2005)
Sports almanacs
[edit]See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Canadian Almanac and Directory | Grey House Publishing Canada". greyhouse.ca.
- ^ "Kalnirnay | India's Premier Almanac Maker | Buy Calmanac Online". Kalnirnay.
- ^ Herzogenrath, Bernd, ed. (December 14, 2023). "A Sound Word Almanac". Bloomsbury. ISBN 9798765109052. Retrieved August 27, 2023.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link) - ^ Sreenath Sreenivasan, "The Old-Fashioned Almanac Thrives in the Age of the Internet", New York Times, December 22, 1997
- ^ Journal, Wall Street (November 1998). The Wall Street Journal Almanac 1999. ISBN 978-0-345-41102-0.
- ^ "American Almanac". Archived from the original on May 16, 2017. Retrieved March 7, 2020.
- ^ "CIRC". circ.greyhouse.ca.
- ^ "CIA World Factbook". Archived from the original on June 1, 2007.
- ^ "Infoplease: An Online Encyclopedia, Almanac, Atlas, Biographies, Dictionary, and Thesaurus". www.infoplease.com.
- ^ "Sri Lanka Almanac Vidhyuth Koshaya". Archived from the original on January 21, 2011. Retrieved March 7, 2020.
- ^ Air Almanac
- ^ Astronomical Phenomena
- ^ Multiyear Interactive Computer Almanac
- ^ "Star Almanac for Land Surveyors". Archived from the original on October 1, 2006.
- ^ "Gupta Press Panjika". Archived from the original on January 10, 2016. Retrieved February 26, 2010.