I've spent more time than any person should looking at what people actually buy here, and the thing that surprises me every year is how badly a calendar can go wrong. Not because it's a bad calendar. Because it's the wrong one for that person. A generic grid of squares is a shrug. The one with their dog breed on it is a gift they mention in March.
So instead of sorting this by wall and desk and mini, I sorted it by who you're buying for. Eight kinds of people, four picks each, all of them under $25. Find your person and skip the rest.
For the one whose house already has a theme
You know the house. Roosters in the kitchen, a wreath for every season, something cross-stitched in the hallway that a real grandmother really made. I love shopping for this person, partly because she is genuinely easy and partly because this is the corner of our catalog I know best. Susan Winget alone outsells every other artist we carry, and it isn't close. If you're stuck, Heart & Home is the answer. It's our number one seller year after year, and I have never once heard of it missing.
Charles Wysocki Americana 2027 Deluxe Wall Calendar
$19.99
Snowy villages and harbor towns, with more cats hidden in the paintings than you'll find on the first look.
Heart & Home 2027 Wall Calendar by Susan Winget
$19.99
Our single best selling calendar, year after year. Warm kitchens, blue hydrangeas, and a rooster or two.
Mary Engelbreit's Happiness is a Habit 2027 Desk Calendar
$17.99
A page a day of Engelbreit's cherries and checkerboards, with a line worth reading before the coffee kicks in.
Proud Rooster 2027 Wall Calendar by Susan Winget
$19.99
More Winget, more roosters, and a lot of foxglove. If her kitchen already leans this way, this is the upgrade.
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For the one who loves an animal more than most people
There is no safer gift on this page. If somebody has a dog, they want a calendar with dogs on it, and they are not conflicted about it. But I'd push you past the obvious here, because the animal people on your list are rarely just dog people or just cat people. The ones who really light up are the birdwatchers, and the person who inexplicably loves cows. Those are the gifts that get a reaction, because nobody ever thinks to buy them.
365 Dogs 2027 Page-A-Day Desk Calendar
$17.99
A new dog every morning for a year. Good for a desk where somebody needs a reason to smile at 2pm.
Cat Page-A-Day Gallery 2027 Desk Calendar
$24.99
The upgrade cat calendar, with photography worth keeping. The priciest pick on this page and worth it.
Songbirds 2027 Wall Calendar by Susan Bourdet
$19.99
Bourdet's watercolor chickadees and cardinals. For anyone with a feeder and strong opinions about squirrels.
Cows Cows Cows 2027 Wall Calendar by Lowell Herrero
$19.99
Herrero's cows are cheerful, a little absurd, and genuinely beloved. Somebody on your list wants this.
More like this: Pets & Animals calendars
For the one who sends you the memes
Humor is the category people buy for someone else more than for themselves, which is exactly what makes it good gifting. My only advice is to be specific. "Funny" is not a personality. The person who loves Far Side and the person who loves Maxine are not the same person, and they will both know immediately if you got it wrong.
Far Side 2027 Desk Calendar
$17.99
Gary Larson's cows and cavemen, one a day. Our best selling humor calendar and not close.
Peanuts 2027 Desk Calendar
$17.99
Snoopy, Lucy, the football. Works for a nine year old and a seventy year old, which almost nothing does.
New Yorker Cartoons 2027 Desk Calendar
$17.99
For the one who reads the caption twice. Dry, a little literary, occasionally savage.
Maxine 2027 Wall Calendar
$16.99
Maxine says the thing everyone else is thinking. Beloved by a very specific and very loyal crowd.
More like this: Humor & Comics calendars
For the nerd on your list, and I mean that lovingly
This is my favorite kind of person to shop for, because what they actually want is a small daily puzzle to solve and almost nobody thinks to give them one. These are all page-a-day boxes, which is the right format here. A wall calendar gives you twelve of something. A box gives you three hundred and sixty five, and that turns into a morning habit instead of a decoration. Buy for the specific flavor of smart they are. The crossword person and the random-facts person are not interchangeable.
Jeopardy! 2027 Desk Calendar
$17.99
Six clues a day in real categories. For the one who answers from the couch before the contestants do.
Sudoku 2027 Desk Calendar
$17.99
A puzzle a day, graded easier at the start of the week and meaner by Friday.
OMG Facts 2027 Desk Calendar
$18.99
One strange true thing a day. Good for anyone who starts sentences with "did you know."
Daily Jumble 2027 Desk Calendar
$18.99
Scrambled words and a pun at the end. The newspaper habit, minus the newspaper.
More like this: Trivia calendars
For the one with a list of places to go
Twelve months of somewhere else. These almost always end up in an office rather than a kitchen, hung across from a desk so there's a mountain to look at instead of a spreadsheet, and I think that's exactly the right use for them. Three of these are about being somewhere far away. The last one is about being exactly where you already are, which is its own kind of gift and usually the harder one to think of.
Ansel Adams 2027 Wall Calendar
$19.99
Black and white Yosemite, printed large enough to do it justice. The safest gift on this whole page.
Sierra Club Wilderness 2027 Wall Calendar
$18.95
Big landscape photography, and the purchase supports conservation work. Easy to feel good about.
National Parks 2027 Wall Calendar
$17.99
All the ones they've been meaning to get to. A reliable seller and one of our better values.
Out on the Porch 2027 Wall Calendar
$16.99
Twelve porches worth sitting on. The pick for the person whose idea of travel is a good chair and no plans.
More like this: Travel & Scenic calendars
For the superfan on your list
Some people's whole personality is one band, one show, or one studio, and honestly that makes them the easiest name on your list. You already know the answer. The only real risk is getting the era wrong, so pay attention to which version of the thing they love. These four stretch across about sixty years of pop culture, which helps if you're buying for more than one household at once.
Grateful Dead 2027 Wall Calendar
$17.99
Poster art, bears, and tour history. Already one of our strongest 2027 sellers before it has even landed.
Thomas Kinkade Disney Collection 2027 Wall Calendar
$16.99
Kinkade's painted takes on the Disney classics. Our best selling licensed title, and it reads grown-up.
The Beatles: A Day in the Life 2027 Wall Calendar
$16.99
Photography from the years it all happened. A good one for a dad with opinions about the mono mixes.
The Simpsons 2027 Wall Calendar
$16.99
Still running, still quotable. Lands anywhere between a dorm room and a cubicle.
More like this: Entertainment calendars
For the kid who is very into one specific thing
Kids do not care about calendars. They care about the thing on the calendar, and that is a completely different purchase. Get the right character and it goes straight up on the bedroom wall, which is how a seven year old accidentally learns what a month is and starts counting down to their birthday in September. My rule here is to buy for what they're into right now, not what they were into last year, because with kids that gap is enormous.
Pokemon 2027 Wall Calendar
$16.99
The safest bet for anyone between six and twelve, and a fair number of adults.
Bluey 2027 Wall Calendar
$17.99
For the preschool crowd, and the parents who know every episode by heart.
KPop Demon Hunters 2027 Wall Calendar with Decal
$17.99
New this year and moving fast. Comes with a decal, which matters more than you'd think.
LEGO 2027 Wall Calendar
$15.99
Builds and minifigures, and the cheapest pick in this section at under sixteen dollars.
More like this: Kids calendars
For the one who's weirdly particular (in the best way)
Every list has somebody who is impossible right up until you remember they are deeply into tarot, or dragons, or something beautifully gloomy. I have a soft spot for this group because I am one of them. These are the calendars nobody expects to receive, which is exactly why they get the biggest reaction. They are also the cheapest section on this page, which feels like it shouldn't be true and is.
Witches 2027 Wall Calendar
$15.99
Moon phases, sabbats, and art worth hanging. For the friend whose apartment smells like rosemary.
Boris Vallejo and Julie Bell's Fantasy 2027 Wall Calendar
$16.99
Dragons, warriors, and airbrush at full volume. A classic, and it sells every single year.
Edward Gorey 2027 Wall Calendar
$16.99
Crosshatched, deadpan, faintly sinister. The one for the person who reads a lot and laughs quietly.
Astrological 2027 Wall Calendar
$15.99
Signs, transits, and the retrogrades marked in advance so nobody is caught off guard.
More like this: Weird & Interesting calendars
If none of these eight people is quite your person, the whole lineup is worth a browse. Most titles come in more than one format, so a wall calendar you love is usually also a desk version, a mini for a locker, or a magnetic one for the fridge. And if you're shopping early, a lot of 2027 calendars run sixteen or eighteen months and start this fall, which means the gift can get used before January. Browse the complete 2027 calendar collection to see everything side by side.
