Tzolk'in
Glossary · Last updated: 2026-07-26
The Tzolk'in is a 260-day cycle. It joins 20 day-signs (nawales) with 13 tones. Popular Mayan day-sign tools usually map your Gregorian birth date into this count.
Living Maya communities hold the Tzolk'in as sacred. This site uses a steady day count so you can compare it with the other traditions.
Example: see it on a birth date
The Tzolk'in day-sign for March 24, 2020 is 12 Ben (Reed).
Tzolk'in is the Maya 260-day count. It is not a sun-sign month.
Enter your own date on the Zodiac Sign Calculator.
Day-sign vs year-sign
Our Mayan card uses the Tzolk'in day-sign for your birth date. It does not use the Haab civil month. It does not use the Long Count. That is one calendar among several in Maya timekeeping.
Related
Main reading and tools
These are the main reading and calculator pages. Use them for a daily note, a birth-sign tool, or a pair check.
- Today's Horoscope hubAll twelve Western sun-sign daily pages, plus links to the seven-tradition reader.
- Horoscope & Zodiac CompatibilityTwo birth dates for Western, Chinese, and Indian Vedic pairing, plus every sun-sign hub.
- Zodiac Sign CalculatorWestern sun sign from birth date, with element, modality, and ruler.
- Rising Sign CalculatorIndian Vedic Lagna estimate when you have birth date, time, and place.
- Moon Sign CalculatorIndian Vedic Janma Rashi and nakshatra when birth time and city are available.