How to Print a Monthly Calendar Cleanly

Last reviewed on May 4, 2026

The monthly calendars on this site are designed to print on one sheet of paper without any tweaking. In practice, browsers and printers occasionally have other ideas. This page walks through the settings that produce a clean print every time, the most common things that go wrong, and how to fix them.

The fastest path

  1. Open the month you want to print — for example, May 2026.
  2. Click the Print Calendar button at the top of the calendar grid (or press Ctrl+P / Cmd+P).
  3. In the print dialog, leave most settings at their defaults. The only one to verify is paper size: letter for the US and Canada, A4 for most of the rest of the world.
  4. Click Print.

The site's print stylesheet hides the navigation, footer, and ads, scales the calendar grid to the printable area, and uses high-contrast text. You should not need to "Fit to page" or change margins.

Recommended settings by browser

Chrome / Edge / Brave

Safari

Firefox

Letter vs A4: does it matter?

Letter (8.5 × 11 inches) is slightly wider and shorter than A4 (8.27 × 11.69 inches). The site's print stylesheet works on both. If you set the wrong paper size in the dialog, the print may have wider margins on one edge or get clipped on the opposite edge. The fix is in the dialog, not in the page — pick the size that matches the paper actually loaded in your printer.

Portrait or landscape?

Portrait works well when you want a slim profile to pin on a fridge or notice board. Landscape gives each weekday cell more horizontal room and is the better choice if you plan to write notes in the cells. The default print is portrait. To switch, change the orientation in the print dialog before clicking Print.

Saving ink and toner

What to do if the calendar prints on two pages

The most common cause is the print scale being set above 100%. Open the print dialog, check the preview, and if the calendar is being clipped at the bottom, lower the scale to 95% or 90%. Try "Fit to page" only as a last resort — some printers shrink so aggressively that the day numbers become hard to read.

Other things that push the layout onto a second page:

Printing several months at once

If you want to print, say, the full 2026 calendar:

  1. Open the 2026 overview page.
  2. Use middle-click (or Ctrl+click / Cmd+click) on each month link to open all twelve in background tabs.
  3. Print each tab. Some browsers also let you select multiple tabs and print them together.

Or print the 2026 quarterly views, which fit three months on each sheet — you'll get the whole year on four pages instead of twelve.

Saving as a PDF

Every modern operating system can "print to PDF" without any extra software. Choose "Save as PDF" (Chrome / Edge / Firefox) or "Save as PDF" from the PDF menu in the lower-left corner of the Safari print dialog. The result is a fixed-layout file you can email, share, or print later from a different machine.

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