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February 2026 is a rare "rectangular month" with 28 days starting on Sunday and ending on Saturday, creating a perfect 4-week grid not seen since 2015.

Put down your planners and look at the calendar. We are living through a "Perfect February," a rare temporal phenomenon where the chaotic march of time briefly organizes itself into a flawless, satisfying rectangle of symmetry.
This is not merely a quirk of the printing press; it is a mathematical rarity. February 2026 begins on a Sunday and ends on a Saturday. It contains exactly 28 days. This creates a "rectangular month"—four perfect weeks, four Sundays, four Mondays, four Saturdays. No spillover, no orphan days, no messy half-weeks. For productivity gurus and symmetry lovers, this is the calendar equivalent of a solar eclipse.
The Gregorian calendar is notoriously messy, a patchwork of leap years and uneven months designed to keep us in sync with the sun. A "Perfect February" occurs only when a non-leap year (28 days) aligns perfectly with the start of the week. This specific alignment happens in a 6-11-11 year cycle.
The last time we saw this Sunday-start perfection was in 2015. After this month concludes, we will not see another Sunday-start perfect rectangular February until 2037. It is a fleeting moment of order in a universe defined by entropy.
The internet has seized on this anomaly with predictable enthusiasm. "It feels like a clean slate," one viral post reads. Psychologists suggest that such visual order provides a subconscious sense of calm and control. In a world of unpredictability, knowing that February 1st is a Sunday and February 28th is a Saturday offers a strange, comforting stability.
So, enjoy the symmetry while it lasts. For the next 28 days, time is not just passing; it is marching in perfect formation.
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