The Ethiopian calendar, which is still in use today, has thirteen months, begins in September, and right now it is 2018 by Jorge Álvarez | April 21, 2026 Traditional New Year's Flowers in Ethiopia. Credit: Tewodros Kassa / Wikimedia Commons There are many people, especially those who have underage children, who follow the school calendar rather than the regular one, and for them in many European countries, the year begins with the start of the school term in the first half of September. In that sense, it is curious that they coincide with the Ge’ez , that is, the civil calendar used by Christians in Ethiopia , which starts on September 11 or 12 in the Gregorian calendar and comes from the Coptic . It also differs from ours in that it consists of twelve months of thirty days plus a thirteenth with another five or six epagomenal days. In Amharic —the official ...