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Sizdah Bedar

The thirteenth day of Nowruz, spent outdoors: families picnic by the water and throw the sprouted wheat into a stream.

Sizdah Be-dar
Photo: PersianDutchNetwork, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

When is Sizdah Bedar in 2027?

Sizdah Bedar 2027 is on Friday, 2 April 2027. Other years: 2026, Thursday, 2 April 2026; 2028, Saturday, 1 April 2028.

About Sizdah Bedar

Sizdah Bedar, "getting rid of thirteen", is the last day of the Nowruz holiday, on the 13th of Farvardin, around 2 April. Thirteen is considered unlucky, so Iranians leave their homes and spend the whole day outdoors in parks, gardens and by rivers and lakes with picnic baskets of food, sweets and nuts, playing games, sing and dance. The sabzeh, the dish of sprouted wheat or lentils from the haft-sin table, which has absorbed the bad luck of the year, is thrown into running water. Unmarried girls tie blades of the grass in knots to wish for a husband. It is customary to play jokes, and the lies of the thirteenth, dorugh-e sizdah, are an Iranian counterpart of April Fools' Day. Roads and parks are crowded.

Sizdah Bedar dates: 2026, 2027, 2028

YearSizdah Bedar date
2026Thursday, 2 April 2026
2027Friday, 2 April 2027
2028Saturday, 1 April 2028

What is eaten

  • kuku sabzi
  • ash reshteh
  • sweets

Traditions of Sizdah Bedar

Haft-sinThe Nowruz table.PicnicThe outdoor meal.

Also part of it, and being written: Sabzeh (The sprouts thrown into the stream.).

About this page

Written by the EveryParampara desk with AI assistance. Background: "Sizdah Bedar" on Wikipedia. Customs differ from place to place and family to family. If this is your tradition and we have it wrong, tell us.

Photo credits on this page

The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.

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