When is Lag BaOmer 2026?
Tuesday,
May 5
141 days ago. Hebrew year 5786.
- Day of week
- Tuesday
- Against 2025
- 11 days earlier
- Hebrew year
- 5786
- Days ago
- 141
Why Lag BaOmer falls when it does in 2026
Lag BaOmer is fixed in the Hebrew calendar, which is lunisolar: twelve lunar months fall about eleven days short of a solar year, so a leap month is added seven times in every nineteen. That is why the Gregorian date swings rather than drifts — 11 days earlier than 2025, and why it always lands in roughly the same season.
Lag BaOmer 2026 on the calendar
| ISO week | Sun | Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri | Sat |
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| 19 | Lag BaOmer | ||||||
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Within a week of Lag BaOmer in 2026
Which dates fall near Lag BaOmer changes every year, because the calendars move against each other.
- BeltaneFriday, Fri, May 1
- Cinco de MayoTuesday, Tue, May 5
- Mother's DaySunday, Sun, May 10