Contents
The whole Almanac on one page. Set your place once and every tool below tunes itself to your nearest official station, from frost dates to tire windows to the sun overhead. Nothing is stored on a server, there is no account, and every figure is traceable to its source.
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Set it here and it follows you into every page in this index.
This week
What the sky is doing where you are, and the right days to work outside.
The garden
Every bed and every sowing, set to your own frost dates rather than a generic spring.
Frost & Planting Calendar When to start, set out, and harvest each vegetable for your station. Garden Planner Lay out a square-foot bed by hand, or let it auto-arrange tall crops north and companions together. Wood-Core Bed Calculator Layer-by-layer wood, brush, compost, and soil for a wood-core raised bed, with settling and banked water. Raised Bed Soil Mix Calculator Compost, peat or coir, vermiculite, or topsoil for a Mel’s Mix or topsoil-and-compost fill, by the bag and the yard. Garden Size Calculator How many plants of each crop, and the garden square footage, to feed your household. Chicken Coop & Run Calculator Coop and run space, nest boxes, roost, and daily feed and water for a backyard flock. Livestock Gestation Calculator Due dates and watch windows for cattle, sheep, goats, pigs, rabbits, and horses. Stocking Rate Calculator Pasture carrying capacity from forage dry matter, utilization, AUE, and grazing months. Livestock Weight Calculator Estimate live weight from heart girth and body length. Feed Ration Calculator Two-ingredient Pearson square ration balancing from user-entered feed values. Average Daily Gain Calculator ADG, required gain, projected weight, and days to target. Freezer Meat Yield Calculator Live, hanging, chilled, packaged, and share-weight estimates for freezer meat. Hay Bale Weight Calculator Round and square bale weight from dimensions and density. Winter Hay Supply Calculator Hay tons and bales to buy from animals, days, dry matter, and waste. Fence Material Calculator Fence perimeter, posts, wire, gates, and editable material cost. Electric Fence Energizer Calculator Output joules, voltage target, and grounding from energized wire length. Egg Hatch Date Calculator Hatch, lockdown, candling, and stop-turning dates for poultry eggs. Egg Cost Calculator Feed cost, monthly outlay, and cost per dozen for a laying flock. Brooder Temperature Calculator Weekly chick brooder targets from hatch day and room temperature. Fertilizer Rate Calculator Turn a soil-test nutrient recommendation into product, bags, cost, and co-applied nutrients. Lime Calculator Agricultural lime from pH, buffer pH, neutralizing index, depth, and area. Compost Calculator Compost carbon-to-nitrogen ratio from wet weights and ingredient presets. Livestock Water Calculator Daily water needs for mixed livestock groups, with hot-weather reserves. Irrigation Calculator Irrigation depth, gallons, and runtime from target inches or ET demand. Growing Degree Days Calculator GDD and crop heat units from daily high and low temperatures. Maple Syrup Calculator Maple tap count, sap-to-syrup ratio, boil-off, and syrup yield. Bee Syrup Calculator Mix 1:1 or 2:1 bee syrup from sugar weight or target volume. Varroa Mite Calculator Alcohol-wash or sticky-board mite counts turned into a threshold status. Succession Planting Keep the harvest coming with timed repeat sowings across the season. Crop Rotation What to plant where next year, grouped by plant family. Container & Balcony Planner Minimum pot depth and size per crop for a balcony or patio. Pollinator Garden A bloom calendar built from native plants, so something flowers from spring to frost. Sun & Shade Planner The sun’s path, daylight length, and golden hour for any day where you live. Drip Irrigation How long and how often to run the line for an inch a week. Growing Season Length How long your frost-free season runs, and where it ranks nationally.
House and yard
Buy the right amount, and pick the right week to do the work.
Mulch & Soil Calculator Cubic yards and bag counts of mulch, soil, compost, or gravel for any bed. Paint & Stain Calculator Gallons for the job, the temperature window, and the best season to paint outside. Lawn Calculator Grass-seed and fertilizer amounts, with the best week to seed and feed. Lawn Calendar The year of lawn care, timed to your local season. Crabgrass Preventer Timing The week to put pre-emergent down, before the soil warms enough for crabgrass to sprout. Concrete & Sealer Calculator Cubic yards and bags for a slab, plus the pour-and-cure temperature window. Knots by the Job The two or three knots each home job needs, drawn step by step: tie-downs, tarps, tree stakes. Rain Barrel & Water Capture Gallons a roof catches from a given rain, and when to set up and drain it. Furnace & AC Sizing A rough heating and cooling size, read from your local climate. Solar Panel Payback Yearly output, savings, and the years until panels pay for themselves. Off-Grid Solar Calculator Solar array, battery storage, and inverter size worked from your daily power use. Wood & Pellet Stove Calculator A rough stove size in BTU, and the cords of wood or tons of pellets a winter takes. Backyard Pond Calculator Volume in gallons, liner size, pump flow, a safe fish load, and the depth to overwinter fish. Canning Altitude Adjuster Correct a tested recipe for your elevation: the added boiling-water time, or the right pressure. Pool Calendar When to open and close the pool for your local season. Home Maintenance Cost Calculator Annual upkeep budget, monthly set-aside, and repair categories from home value, age, and size. Flooring & Tile Calculator Area, waste, boxes, and underlayment rolls before you buy flooring or tile. Deck Material Calculator Deck boards, joists, screws, and stain from the deck size. Pool Chemical Calculator Chlorine, pH, alkalinity, and stabilizer doses from your pool volume and test readings.
Winter
The cold half of the year, handled before it arrives.
Ice Melt & Salt Calculator The right amount of de-icer, with a warning when it runs too cold for rock salt. Firewood & Cord Calculator Measure a stack into cords, compare the heat in each wood, and size a heating season. When to shut off the taps Drain the outdoor lines before the first hard freeze. When to service the snow blower Get it running before the first storm, not during it.
Know your place
The shape of your year, and how it compares to everywhere else.
Your Home’s Year The whole year on one wheel: frost, planting, pool, tires, and the upkeep that follows. Your Year, In Order The same year written out as a followable plan, in order, each task linked to the tool that times it. Climate Twin Finder The town whose year of temperatures runs almost exactly like yours. Winter & Summer Index Two scores for how hard your winter bites and how lush your summer grows. The Frost Atlas Frost dates and growing seasons mapped across the country. Your State The home year for each of the fifty states. Planting Zone Guide What your USDA zone does and does not tell you.
Moving
A move resets the whole home calendar. See exactly what changes before you go.
Relocation Planner What shifts when you move: climate, seasons, and the rules that follow you. Moving Climate Match Set two places side by side and see exactly how their weather differs. Moving to Florida The home year, rewritten for the Gulf and the heat. Moving to Arizona A desert home calendar, with the seasons turned inside out. Moving to Texas Long summers, short winters, and what that means for the house. United States to Canada What a colder, longer winter does to the calendar. Packing checklist The order to pack a house so the truck and the first night both work.
The home year
The whole house, month by month, and a calendar you can carry.
The Home Year Month by month, the maintenance and seasonal tasks for your climate. Your Year Subscribe the whole calendar to your phone, or print the one-page fridge sheet. When to start seeds indoors Counted back from your last frost. When to clean the gutters After the leaves drop, before the freeze. When to change furnace filters On a rhythm that matches your heating season. Frost dates The last spring and first fall frost for your place.
About the Almanac
How it is built, where every figure comes from, and how it stays free.
All Tools & Calculators The interactive tools, gathered on one page. Data & Methodology Which government sources feed each number, and how the dates are computed. Rebates & Programs Home and energy rebates worth knowing about. How it is funded Why the whole Almanac is free, and how it pays for itself. Privacy Nothing stored on a server, no account, your place stays in your browser. About What the Almanac is, and who it is for. Request a Tool Tell us what to build next. The tools here grow from what people ask for. Colophon The type, the build, and the credits.
Everything here is free and always will be, built on NOAA and U.S. government data, refreshed on a schedule. How it stays free. Up north? There is a Canadian edition.