Calendar Maker

How to make a calendar

SlideModel's calendar maker builds weekly, monthly and yearly calendars for any date, right in your browser. Pick the calendar type, set the dates, click a day to add an event, and choose a style. The preview is the page you'll download, so there's nothing to fix up afterwards.

1. Pick the calendar type. Weekly gives you one week per page, with writing lines or an hourly schedule. Monthly gives you one month per page. Yearly puts the whole year on one page, one month on each slide, or both.
2. Set the dates. Choose the month, year or week, and whether weeks start on Sunday or Monday.
3. Add your events. Click any day to add a color-coded event or to highlight it. An event shows up on every page that includes its date, so you'll see it on the month page and as a marked day on the year at a glance.
4. Style it. Choose Classic, Minimal, Bold, Soft or Dark, then a color theme or your own brand color, a font, and a slide or paper size.
5. Download. With a free account you can download any page as a PNG. SlideModel Pro downloads every page as a printable PDF or an editable PowerPoint deck.

One page or a whole deck

A calendar can be a single page or a multi-page document. You'll see every page in the thumbnail strip under the preview.

• Monthly: just this month, or several months in a row (up to 24), like January to December or a school year from August to July.
• Yearly: the whole year at a glance on one slide, one month per slide (12 slides), or both with the overview first (13 slides). You can add a cover slide with the year and your title.
• Weekly: this week, every week of a month, or the next few weeks, up to a full year of weekly pages.

The PowerPoint and PDF downloads include every page in order, so a 13-slide yearly calendar goes straight into your planning deck.

Printable and editable

Most calendar sites give you a PDF you can only print. Most PowerPoint calendar templates are built for a single year and a single week start, so each January someone ends up retyping the dates. This tool makes the calendar for the dates you actually need, in two forms:

• Printable: choose Letter or A4, portrait or landscape. PNGs are rendered at print resolution, and the Pro PDF is vector, so text stays sharp at any size.
• Editable: in the Pro PowerPoint download, every month and week is a native PowerPoint table, which makes it a fillable calendar. Click into any day to type, restyle the table with PowerPoint's own tools, or change the font. It imports into Google Slides and Keynote with the grid intact.

If you'd rather build a calendar by hand, our guides on how to insert a calendar in PowerPoint and how to insert a calendar in Google Slides walk you through the manual method.

Sunday or Monday?

In the United States, calendars start on Sunday. That's the US English default in Google Calendar, Outlook, Apple Calendar and Windows, it's how most printed US calendars are laid out, and it's the default here too. Most of Europe, and the ISO 8601 standard, start the week on Monday. Switch under Days & weeks and every page redraws.

Week numbers come in both versions. In US numbering, week 1 is the week that contains January 1. In ISO numbering, weeks start on Monday and week 1 is the one that contains the year's first Thursday.

Ideas for your calendar

• Team and project planning: one month per slide with launches, deadlines and reviews color-coded by type, for a quarterly business review or a planning deck.
• School and classroom: a school-year calendar from August to July with term dates and breaks, printed for the classroom wall or shared with families.
• Events and content: an editorial or social media calendar, an event schedule, or a training timetable in the weekly hourly view.
• Personal: a printable wall or desk calendar with birthdays and holidays marked, in your own colors.

When the calendar is just the start of a bigger plan, pair it with a timeline template or a roadmap template, or browse SlideModel's calendar templates for a fully designed year.