Ethiopian to Samaritan Date Converter

Enter a date in the Ethiopian calendar and the tool returns the equivalent date in the Samaritan calendar using the standard relationship between the two systems.

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   Step 1

   Enter the complete Ethiopian date — day, month, and year.

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   Step 2

   We anchor each system's epoch, then convert day by day — Ethiopian: it runs 7–8 years behind the Gregorian; Samaritan: a 13th leap month lands 7 times in each 19-year cycle.

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   Step 3

   Read the exact Samaritan date: a year spanning 353–385 days, counted month by month.

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  Ethiopian and Samaritan dates do not map one-to-one — the two systems start from different epochs and count leap years differently, so enter the full Ethiopian date and read the Samaritan equivalent instead of shifting the year by a fixed offset.

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  Enter the Ethiopian–Samaritan dates in YYYY-MM-DD format to avoid ambiguity — some conventions read 03/04 as March fourth and others as April third, and a swapped month and day silently shifts every result this page derives.

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  Leap rules differ between the calendars behind Ethiopian–Samaritan, so a span that looks like whole years in one system can land a day or two off in another; trust the converted result rather than a fixed mental offset.

• The Ethiopian and Samaritan calendars differ in year length and leap pattern, so a fixed-day offset — 365, 354, any memorized constant — drifts the Samaritan date badly. Convert the complete date so both leap rules apply.

• Reversing the direction is a silent trap: converting from the Samaritan calendar back to the Ethiopian calendar needs the inverse relation, and off-by-one errors cluster at month boundaries where the systems disagree. Verify the round trip returns your original date.