How is the Jewish calendar compared to your calendar?

Answer 1

The Jews' calendar was better.

Answer:Most of the Western world uses a solar calendar, in which the lunar phases are a mere curiosity. Islam takes a different approach, using a calendar which is exclusively lunar.

The Jewish calendar is lunisolar; meaning that the months are lunar months but the holidays always come out in their specified solar seasons. This is done by adding a leap-month every second or third year.

Answer 2

Physically, a Jewish calendar looks pretty much like a Gregorian one -- months in a grid with the name of the month on the top, numbers of the days, and days of the week written across the top.

How the calendar is set up:

The Hebrew calendar is based on cycles of the moon. Our Gregorian calendar is a solar calendar -- it ONLY cares about the time that it takes the earth to go around the sun. Our months are CLOSE to a lunar cycle in length, but not THAT close. And the moon doesn't really have much importance in the Gregorian calendar. But it's VERY important in the Hebrew calendar. Every month starts on the new moon. There are twelve months in the Hebrew year: Nisan, Iyar, Sivan, Tammuz, Av, Elul, Tishri, Cheshvan, Kislev, Tevet, Shevat, Adar. Every month has either 29 or 30 days; the whole year lasts 354 days. That's 11 and a quarter days short of the solar year of 365.25 days. In a pure lunar calendar, like the Muslim calendar, that's just how it works -- your calendar year is shorter than the solar year, so, every year, seasons come 11 days earlier. Over the course of 32 years, the same date will happen in every single season. But the Hebrew calendar doesn't do that. It adjusts the lunar calendar to stay relevant to the seasons. So, in 7 out of 19 years, an extra MONTH is added, Adar II, right after the regular Adar. That brings the cycle to just about 365 days or so; every once in a while, an extra leap day is added, as well. Between those -- the leap month of Adar II and the occasional leap day -- the Hebrew calendar stays matched to the solar year, while remaining a lunar calendar.

Answer 3

The Jewish calendar is a lunar/solar hybrid calendar.