Blank monthly calendar grid: six weeks × seven days, ready to fill in for any month of any year.

Free blank monthly calendar PDF. Six-week grid, Sunday start, generous cells for handwritten dates and events. Works for any month of any year.

Monthly Calendar | Free Printable PDF (Blank, Sunday Start)

Monthly Calendar

Look up the actual day-of-week for the 1st of the month before filling in dates. Getting this wrong by one day cascades through the entire month, and the error is the most common mistake people make when handwriting a monthly grid. Use a phone calendar or a wall calendar as the source of truth.

Fill in the dates from a calendar, not from memory

Convention is the date number in the upper-left corner, with events written below. This leaves the bulk of each cell for content rather than for the date itself. Consistent placement makes the calendar scannable.

Date in the top-left of each cell

Draw a diagonal line through each day as it ends. At a glance you can see how much of the month is behind you and how much remains, which is surprisingly useful for pacing longer projects.

Cross out passed days

Family events in one colour, work deadlines in another, social plans in a third. The cells are small, so you want to encode information visually rather than packing more text in. Three or four colours is usually the sweet spot before it gets noisy.