Kadmi New Year · Navroz-e Qadimi

Culture of origin: Zoroastrian · Cultural

Holiday sources: Zoroastrianism

The Kadmi or Qadimi ("old") calendar counts the same 365-day year as the Shahenshahi, but one month ahead of it. Some Parsis of Surat took it up in 1745, and a minority of Parsis keep their feasts by it today. In Iran it was the old reckoning: many orthodox Zoroastrians, especially the Sharifabadis of Yazd, went on using the Qadimi after the seasonal Bastani calendar was promoted from 1930. Because no leap day is added, the Kadmi and Shahenshahi years keep starting earlier, a day every four years.