Leap year starting on Friday


A leap year starting on Friday is any year with 366 days that begins on Friday 1 January and ends on Saturday 31 December. Its dominical letters hence are CB. The most recent year of such kind was 2016, and the next one will be 2044 in the Gregorian calendar or, likewise, 2000 and 2028 in the obsolete Julian calendar.
Any leap year that starts on Friday has only one Friday the 13th: the only one in this leap year occurs in May. Common years starting on Saturday share this characteristic. This is also the only year in which February has five Mondays, as the leap day adds that extra Monday.
This year has two months which begin on a weekend-day. Since at least one month begins on each day of the week in all years, this is the fewest possible number of months to begin on a weekend-day in a given year; this also occurs in a common year starting on Friday, in which case the two months are May and August.

Applicable years

Gregorian Calendar

Leap years that begin on Friday, along with those starting on Sunday, occur most frequently: 15 of the 97 total leap years in a 400-year cycle of the Gregorian calendar. Thus, their overall occurrence is 3.75%.
For this kind of year, the ISO week 10 and all subsequent ISO weeks occur later than in all other leap years.
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100–199112140168196
200–299208236264292
300–399304332360388

Julian Calendar

Like all leap year types, the one starting with 1 January on a Friday occurs exactly once in a 28-year cycle in the Julian calendar, i.e. in 3.57% of years. As the Julian calendar repeats after 28 years that means it will also repeat after 700 years, i.e. 25 cycles. The year's position in the cycle is given by the formula + 1).
Decade1st2nd3rd4th5th6th7th8th9th10th
15th century1412144014681496
16th century152415521580
17th century1608163616641692
18th century172017481776
19th century1804183218601888
20th century1916194419722000
21st century202820562084
22nd century2112214021682196

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