A leap year has 366 days, as opposed to a common year, which has 365. Nearly every 4 years is a Leap Year, and we add a Leap Day, an extra – or intercalary – day on February 29.

When is the next Leap Year?

The next Leap Year is 2016 – this year, so the next Leap Day falls on February 29, 2016. (The last Leap Day was on February 29, 2012.)

Why do we have Leap Years?

Leap Years are needed to keep our modern day Gregorian Calendar in alignment with the Earth’s revolutions around the sun. It takes the Earth Continue reading DYK: What is a Leap Year? →