12/09/2026
Happy New Year, Ethiopia! The country has officially entered the year 2019, celebrating Enkutatash while much of the world remains in 2026. 🇪🇹
Ethiopia follows its own ancient calendar, which runs seven to eight years behind the Gregorian one because of a different calculation of the birth of Christ.
Known as Enkutatash, meaning "gift of jewels," the New Year falls on 11 September and marks the end of the long rainy season, when the highlands turn green and golden adey abeba flowers bloom.
The Ethiopian calendar is also uniquely structured, with 13 months, twelve of 30 days each and a short 13th month of five or six days.
Families gather to feast, sing and exchange well-wishes, opening a festive stretch that leads into Meskel just sixteen days later.
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