--- title: "Jewish Calendar" description: "Jewish Calendar is a built-in integration for Home Assistant. It has 816 installs sharing analytics and works locally." canonical: "https://vulpo.app/integrations/core/jewish-calendar" url: "https://vulpo.app/integrations/core/jewish-calendar.md" last-updated: "2026-10-22" version: "1.4" --- # Jewish Calendar > Jewish Calendar is a built-in integration for Home Assistant. It has 816 installs sharing analytics and works locally. Jewish Calendar is a built-in integration that provides Jewish calendar dates, holidays and halachic times. It works locally and is set up in the UI, with choices for location, elevation, time zone, language and whether the location is outside of Israel. It adds sensors for the date, holidays, Daf Yomi, the Omer count and halachic times such as dawn, midday, sunset and the latest time for Shma. Binary sensors show Erev Shabbat or Hag, Motzei Shabbat or Hag, and whether Issur Melacha is in effect. Three calendars cover daily events, yearly events and the learning schedule, and options choose which entries each one shows. Options also set the minutes before sunset for candle lighting and the minutes after sunset for Havdalah, and an action returns the phrase for counting the Omer on a given date. Automatic summary of Home Assistant's source code. Something wrong? [Get in touch](https://vulpo.app/contact) [Open in My Home Assistant](https://my.home-assistant.io/redirect/config_flow_start/?domain=jewish_calendar) ## Supports - **Works locally**: Talks to your devices on your own network. No vendor cloud in between. - **Set up in the UI**: Add it in Settings, Devices and services. Nothing to download. - **Change settings later**: Its connection settings can change without removing it. - **Updated with Home Assistant**: Ships and updates with every Home Assistant release. ## Setting it up It is added under Settings, Devices and services, with Add integration. ### Connect - **Outside of Israel?**: Is the location outside of Israel? - **Elevation**: Elevation in meters above sea level. This is used to calculate the times correctly. - **Language**: Language to use when displaying values in the UI. - **Location**: Location to use for the Jewish calendar calculations. By default, the location is set to the Home Assistant location. - **Time zone**: If you specify a location, make sure to specify the time zone for correct calendar times calculations Also asked when changing the connection. ### After setup - **Minutes before sunset for candle lighting**: Defaults to 18 minutes. In Israel you probably want to use 20/30/40 depending on your location. Outside of Israel you probably want to use 18/24. - **Daily events to display**: Select which daily Jewish calendar events should be displayed in the Daily Events calendar - **Minutes after sunset for Havdalah**: Setting this to 0 means 36 minutes as fixed degrees (8.5°) will be used instead - **Learning schedule to display**: Select which learning schedules should be displayed in the Learning Schedule calendar - **Yearly events to display**: Select which yearly Jewish calendar events should be displayed in the Yearly Events calendar Texts from Home Assistant's source code, [Apache License 2.0](https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0). ## Entities - **Binary sensors**: Erev Shabbat/Hag, Issur Melacha in effect, Motzei Shabbat/Hag - **Calendars**: Daily events, Learning schedule, Yearly events - **Sensors**: Halachic dawn (Alot Hashachar), Halachic midday (Chatzot Hayom), Daf Yomi, Date, Holiday, Mincha Gedola, Mincha Ketana, Halachic sunrise (Netz Hachama), Day of the Omer, Plag Hamincha, Sunset (Shkia), Latest time for Shma Gr"a, and 11 more ## Actions - **Count the Omer**: Returns the phrase for counting the Omer on a given date. Fields: After sunset, Date, Language, Nusach ## Troubleshooting - **Diagnostics**: Downloads a diagnostics file to attach to a bug report. ## At a glance - Kind: Built-in integration - Category: [Productivity and information](https://vulpo.app/integrations/category/productivity-and-information.md), Calendars and to-dos - Number: 816 installs sharing analytics - Connection: Works locally - Upkeep: Part of Home Assistant - Needs: Built into Home Assistant - Domain: `jewish_calendar` - Source: In Vulpo: Calendar card, Chart card, Apple Watch Independent directory, made by the developer of Vulpo. Not affiliated with Home Assistant or the Open Home Foundation. [About these numbers](https://vulpo.app/integrations/about) Last updated 2026-10-22. Source: https://vulpo.app/integrations/core/jewish-calendar --- - HTML version of this page: https://vulpo.app/integrations/core/jewish-calendar - Site index for agents: https://vulpo.app/llms.txt - Everything in one document: https://vulpo.app/llms-full.txt - All pages: https://vulpo.app/sitemap.xml