Mexica / Aztec
Tonalpohualli · XiuhpohualliYour Nahua day sign and its traditional qualities will appear here.
Enter a date to see the Gregorian, Mexica, and Maya calendar results together.
Your Nahua day sign and its traditional qualities will appear here.
The corresponding Maya day name, solar position, and Long Count will appear here.
The same day in the Gregorian calendar, which numbers years and uses months of varying lengths.
The Tonalpohualli and Tzolk’in each combine 13 numbers with 20 day names. Their solar partners contain 365 days. A sacred and solar pairing repeats every 18,980 days—about 52 years.
These traditions share Mesoamerican cycle structures, but their day names, ceremonies, histories, and communities are distinct. The page compares their mathematical rhythms without treating one as a translation of the other.
The Mexica result preserves this project’s August 13, 1521 ≈ 1 Coatl anchor. Maya Long Count results use the widely used GMT 584283 correlation. Ancient-calendar correlations are scholarly reconstructions and can vary.