Birthdays and holidays are automatically added to your calendar so you'll never miss an opportunity to celebrate. You can also add other calendars, including Phases of the moon, or sports team schedules.
Important: Starting in March 2019, you won't be able to find birthdays of people in your Google+ Circles on your calendar due to the upcoming sunset of Google+. You'll still be able to find birthdays of people in your contacts. Learn more.
Birthdays
Turn off or hide birthdays from your calendarHide all birthdays
- Open Google Calendar on a computer. If you need directions for a mobile device, choose your device at the top of the page.
- Under "My calendars," uncheck Contacts. Calendars with an empty box next to them are hidden.
Hide birthdays from your calendar list
You can hide the Contacts calendar so that it doesn't show up under "My calendars."
- Open Google Calendar on a computer. If you need directions for a mobile device, choose your device at the top of the page.
- On the left, find "My calendars". You may need to click to expand it.
- Point your mouse at "Contacts" and click Options
Hide from the list.
Hide from the list.Birthdays come from details in your Google Contacts.
If the person is in your Google Contacts, you can edit or remove the person's birthday at google.com/contacts.
Add the person to Google Contacts and include their birthday. Your calendar will update birthdays from Google Contacts every time it runs a sync.
Right now, you can't add birthdays from Facebook to Google Calendar on your computer.Tip: If you want notifications about a birthday, create a recurring event.
- Open Google Calendar.
- On the left, find "My calendars". You may need to click to expand it.
- Next to "Contacts," click Options
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- Choose a new color.
Holidays & other calendars
Add or remove national or religious holidays & other calendars- Open Google Calendar.
- On the left, next to "Other calendars," click the
- Find a calendar and check or uncheck the box next to it to remove.
- Open Google Calendar.
- On the left under "Other calendars," uncheck Holidays. Calendars with an empty box next to them are hidden.
- Open Google Calendar.
- On the left, next to "Other calendars", find the holiday calendar.
- Click Options
- Choose a new color.
Sports and other calendars
If you're using Google Calendar on your computer, you can also add other calendars, like sports. Once you add them on your computer, they'll also show up in the Google Calendar app.