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Hebrew Calendar vs Non-Working Days

Hebrew Calendar

Hebcal converts between Gregorian and Hebrew dates and computes Shabbat start/end times, holiday dates, Torah readings, and the Daf Yomi study cycle for any location, driven by the same open-source engine (@hebcal/core) that runs the hebcal.com website. Every endpoint is keyless JSON (or RSS/iCal on other routes) under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license, so results can be reused commercially as long as Hebcal is credited. It's rate-limited to keep the free service polite — no more than 90 requests per 10-second window — and the once-http-only backend now serves over HTTPS as well.

Non-Working Days

isdayoff.ru answers one narrow question extremely cheaply: for a date or date range, is it a working day, a weekend, or an official non-working holiday. Responses are bare digit strings (0/1 per day, or 2 for a shortened day) rather than JSON, which keeps payloads tiny for the batch/range endpoint. It documents Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, and the US as supported country codes, but live probes this run found only Russia (the default), Belarus, and Kazakhstan return genuinely varying data — the Ukraine and US codes are accepted (HTTP 200) but answered every single day of several different months with a flat, undifferentiated "0". It's free, keyless, and has no published rate limit, built for production-calendar bookkeeping rather than general holiday metadata.

Hebrew CalendarNon-Working Days
AuthenticationNoneNone
Pricingfreefree
FormatsJSONText
CORSyesyes
HTTPSYesYes

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