OzikoroHistory & Archive

Gregorian date + four-day cycle

Igbo Calendar

Check today, look up another date, or follow Eke/Eken, Orie/Oye, Afọ/Afor and Nkwọ/Nkwor across a month or full year. Below the calendar: the Nri year those days make up, its thirteen months, and the archive’s own records behind them.

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Eke Eken

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Orie Oye

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Afọ Afor

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Nkwọ Nkwor

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    Community context matters

    This page reckons the cycle from a fixed anchor: 1 January 2026 taken as Orie, repeating the four-day cycle. Communities do not all keep the same anchor, so a town that keeps another one keeps another market day.

    The account of the calendar followed here is the Nri one. The four market days and the thirteen months below are the Nri reckoning, taken from the archive's own catalogued records. Other Igbo communities keep other reckonings, and those records say so themselves: the calendar varies across communities, and the four-day market week is the part they share.