The Best Google Sheets Calendar Templates

Tired of printed calendars that you can’t customize? Try Google Sheets calendar templates instead. Choose from a large variety of purposes, customize colors, formats, and much more. Whether you need something to keep track of daily appointments or stay on top of your New Year’s resolutions, there’s a calendar template for you. All templates on this list are free to download and customize.

1. Google Sheets Monthly Calendar – Smartsheet

If you’re looking for a more traditional calendar, it’s hard to beat the Google Sheets Monthly Calendar from Smartsheet. It looks like your standard monthly wall calendar with large empty blocks to add notes on anything you want. What’s nice is that it’s simple and works for almost any purpose. Sure, it’s minimal, but that also makes it easy to customize. If you don’t like the Portrait version linked above, try the Landscape version instead. You can also opt for Google’s Annual Calendar template with a monthly layout.

Highlights:

• Simple layout makes it easy to customize
• Add images to blocks to make special days stand out
• Only provides month-by-month views

2. Yearly, Monthly, and Weekly Planner – Medium

The Yearly, Monthly, and Weekly Planner from Gracia Kleijnen on Medium is one of the more surprisingly well-laid-out Google Sheets calendar templates for tracking goals, daily tasks, meetings, and anything you could possibly think of. Using a small box at the bottom of each tab, you can easily add extra rows to better customize the calendar. Every week is laid out in a scrollable list in a single tab. You can even set and track goals by month or year. Despite its usefulness, it’s still a minimalistic calendar template.

Highlights:

• Track goals, important dates, milestones, and more by week, month, and year
• Only four tabs to deal with
• Set statuses using keyboard shortcuts
• Simple color coding without distractions

3. Multicolor Calendar Schedule – The GooDocs

Hate having to start over with a new calendar every year? The Multicolor Calendar Schedule from The GooDocs automatically adjusts using a drop-down list for years 2022-2030. This could be the last calendar template you need through 2030. Each week is laid out from 7 AM to 9:30 PM in 30-minute increments. It’s perfect for businesses, working from home, goal tracking, school activities, homework, and anything else where you have to track hour by hour.

Highlights:

• Simply expand the desired week to use it
• Easily customize colors, fonts, times, etc.
• Ideal for busy schedules and time blocking

4. Budget Calendar – Smartsheet

Need something to help keep your finances in order? Try the Budget Calendar by Smartsheet. Use this template to set budget goals and track how you compare month by month. With separate sections for income and expenses, it’s easy to track what’s coming in and out. This means it also works well for personal use, freelancers, and small businesses. It’s simple, yet an effective way to see budget trends. If you need more budgeting templates, try our list of Google Sheets budgeting templates.

Highlights:

• Features an overview section
• Only one tab to focus on
• Customize categories as needed

5. Daily Planner – Smartsheet

For those with the most hectic schedules, only the Daily Planner from Smartsheet will do. It’s one of the top Google Sheets calendar templates to help you track anything and everything going on in 15-minute increments from 7 AM through 11 PM. One feature that really impresses me is that all you have to do is set your start date on the first tab, and the dates automatically generate for the rest of the week. Students, parents, businesses, and anyone tracking projects/goals will find this template useful. If you need more help staying productive, try these free Notion templates.

Highlights:

• Focuses on a single week at a time
• Each day has its own tab, except for the weekend
• Notes and Tasks sections

6. 2024 Calendar – You Exec

If you need a Google Sheets calendar template with a simple lined layout, the 2024 Calendar from You Exec has you covered. The free version of this template is rather basic, but it’s a monthly calendar layout with lines for each day to take notes or list important events. There’s also a handy notes section. While it’s just grayscale, you can easily customize the colors.

Helpful extras, like a task list, charts, color coding, and checklists, are only in the premium version. (Access all resources on You Exec starting at $20/month. Delete these tabs if you want to only keep the free version.)

Highlights:

• Lines to list tasks, events, etc.
• Check off daily tasks
• Each month has its own tab

7. Project Plan Template – eFinancialModels

If you’re tracking goals, projects, or even planning events, you may need a more complex calendar, like the Project Plan Template from eFinancialModels. It’s a highly detailed sheet that tracks projects by task, day, and month. With conditional formatting and automatic calculations, it’s easier to see if you’re staying on track or falling behind. Plus, it’s easy to customize the sheet for your project. The Instructions tab is a nice touch to better understand the template.

Highlights:

• Dates automatically adjust once you fill out the first date
• Create a nearly unlimited number of tasks
• Set the calendar dates for as long or short as your project needs
• Assign team members to tasks. (Use these project management tools to help your team stay on track.)

8. Editorial Calendar Template – Smartsheet

If you’re a content creator, you need an Editorial Calendar template. Smartsheet’s template gives you a yearly and monthly overview. Everything’s nicely color-coded to make it easier to use. While the calendar is just on two sheets, you also get Archive and Brainstorming sheets to help keep track of past content. Based on the layout, this calendar could easily be customized for social media posting, goal tracking, and managing a website.

Highlights:

• Color-coded sections
• Links to each month on the monthly overviews
• Worksheets to track past content and plan out new content
• A notes section for each month in the yearly overview

9. Habit Tracker – Hello Metrics

If you’ve set multiple goals or resolutions to help change your habits, it’s not always easy to keep track of them. The Habit Tracker from Hello Metrics is one of the easiest-to-use Google Sheets calendar templates that lets you track as many habits as you want. What’s unique is that you can customize which days of the week you want to do your habit, such as going for a run on Saturdays. Track habits one month at a time, and easily add more tabs to create a yearly calendar.

Highlights:

• Add checkboxes just on the days you plan to do your habit
• Quick row add button at the bottom of each tab
• Includes overall progress chart

10. Bullet Journal Calendar – Vertex42

If you love bullet journaling, try the Bullet Journal Calendar template from Vertex42. While it’s an Excel template, all you have to do is upload it to Google Sheets after downloading, and it works perfectly. Just like a paper bullet journal, you have multiple sheets (tabs). Plan for six months at a time, along with having detailed weekly and monthly overviews. My favorite feature is the date changer to the right of each tab to automatically generate dates on the rest of the tab.

If you enjoy using Excel templates, check out these Excel budget templates.

Highlights:

• Track anything you want for the year (six-month advanced view)
• Each week features a to-do list, goals, and daily lists
• Each month includes a bullet section, tasks, and a calendar for that month

11. Automatic Mini-Calendar by SpreadsheetClass.com

I’m a huge fan of automatic Google Sheets calendar templates that keep you from manually adding in dates every year. The Automatic Mini-Calendar shows you 12 months at a time. It works more as a general purpose calendar to quickly check dates. Consider color-coding special dates to customize it. Simply enter your start and end date, and the calendar automatically adjusts all the dates.

If you prefer a larger version with each month on its own tab, try the Automatic Full-Size Calendar.

Highlights:

• Display any 12 consecutive months
• No room for notes
• Change the conditional formatting to highlight with your preferred colors

12. Monthly Calendar List by SpreadsheetClass.com

Want to track several tasks for each day in a month? Monthly Calendar List gives every month its own tab. The lined calendar separates each day, showing you the entire month in a list format. Add up to six tasks per day by default, or expand the calendar with more columns for additional tasks.

Highlights:

• Includes a Notes section
• Weekends are highlighted
• Use color-coding to highlight important dates/plans

Create Calendars That Work for You

While all the templates are free to use, they can’t be used for commercial purposes. You can even print them and hang them on your wall. Feel free to customize them as much as you want. If you can’t edit a template, read the instructions with the template, or once it’s loaded in Google Sheets, go to File -> Make a Copy to create your own copy.

If you don’t like any of the above, learn how to create your own calendar in Google Sheets. Or, if you’d rather just use a calendar app, check out these Google Calendar app alternatives.

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