Days until calendar events

[tebrown (Travis)]

I was using the calendarific plugin, but it looks like that hasn’t been updated in quite a while and no longer works with 2025.6. The nice thing that it provided was entities that provided number of days until a specific event. For instance, I would have entity.christmas_day and it would just be a number which was days until the holiday. This made my automations for configuring my outdoor lights super easy. I know I could use hard coded dates for most things, but of course, things like Easter are not on the same day every year.

Is there a way to do this with a helper or blueprint?

TIA!

[Didgeridrew]

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Selection of Sensor Configurations with 'Days Until' as an attribute

It’s been a while since I set these up, and the template integration has had a lot of upgrades, so there’s probably a better way to do the “days until” part, but I haven’t gotten around to updating them.

template:
  - trigger:
      - platform: time
        at: "00:01:00"
      - platform: homeassistant
        event: start

# FIXED DATE

    sensor:
      - name: "New Years Day"
        unique_id: "37319374975705055206"
        state: >
          {% from 'easy_time.jinja' import month_day %}
          {{ (month_day(1, 1)|as_datetime).date() }}
        attributes:
          days_until: >
            {%- from 'easy_time.jinja' import month_day %}
            {%- set x = ((month_day(1, 1)|as_datetime) - today_at()).days %}
            {{ iif(x < 1, x + 365, x) }}
        availability: "{{ now() is defined }}"

      - name: "Dia de Los Reyes"
        unique_id: "1984497531937520705056"
        state: >
          {% from 'easy_time.jinja' import month_day %}
          {{ (month_day(1, 6)|as_datetime).date() }}
        attributes:
          days_until: >
            {%- from 'easy_time.jinja' import month_day %}
            {%- set x = ((month_day(1, 6)|as_datetime) - today_at()).days %}
            {{ iif(x < 1, x + 365, x) }}
        availability: "{{ now() is defined }}"

      - name: "Valentines Day"
        unique_id: "22719844595073910047"
        state: >
          {% from 'easy_time.jinja' import month_day %}
          {{ (month_day(2, 14)|as_datetime).date() }}
        attributes:
          days_until: >
            {%- from 'easy_time.jinja' import month_day %}
            {%- set x = ((month_day(2, 14)|as_datetime) - today_at()).days %}
            {{ iif(x < 1, x + 365, x) }}
        availability: "{{ now() is defined }}"

      - name: "Saint Patricks Day"
        unique_id: "44595073912271980047"
        state: >
          {% from 'easy_time.jinja' import month_day %}
          {{ (month_day(3, 17)|as_datetime).date() }}
        attributes:
          days_until: >
            {%- from 'easy_time.jinja' import month_day %}
            {%- set x = ((month_day(3, 17)|as_datetime) - today_at()).days %}
            {{ iif(x < 1, x + 365, x) }}
        availability: "{{ now() is defined }}"

      - name: Halloween
        unique_id: "947396278926815041"
        state: >
          {% from 'easy_time.jinja' import month_day %}
          {{ (month_day(10, 31)|as_datetime).date() }}
        attributes:
          days_until: >
            {%- from 'easy_time.jinja' import month_day %}
            {%- set x = ((month_day(10, 31)|as_datetime) - today_at()).days %}
            {{ iif(x < 1, x + 365, x) }}
        availability: "{{ now() is defined }}"

      - name: Dia de Muertos
        unique_id: "9750858485431103467"
        state: >
          {% from 'easy_time.jinja' import month_day %}
          {{ (month_day(11, 2)|as_datetime).date() }}
        attributes:
          days_until: >
            {%- from 'easy_time.jinja' import month_day %}
            {%- set x = ((month_day(11, 2)|as_datetime) - today_at()).days %}
            {{ iif(x < 1, x + 365, x) }}
        availability: "{{ now() is defined }}"

      - name: Rex Manning Day
        unique_id: "4690662543745975107"
        state: >
          {% from 'easy_time.jinja' import month_day %}
          {{ (month_day(4, 8)|as_datetime).date() }}
        attributes:
          days_until: >
            {%- from 'easy_time.jinja' import month_day %}
            {%- set x = ((month_day(4, 8)|as_datetime) - today_at()).days %}
            {{ iif(x < 1, x + 365, x) }}
        availability: "{{ now() is defined }}"

      - name: Christmas
        unique_id: "14318885502034384968"
        state: >
          {% from 'easy_time.jinja' import month_day %}
          {{ (month_day(12, 25)|as_datetime).date() }}
        attributes:
          days_until: >
            {%- from 'easy_time.jinja' import month_day %}
            {%- set x = ((month_day(12, 25)|as_datetime) - today_at()).days %}
            {{ iif(x < 1, x + 365, x) }}
        availability: "{{ now() is defined }}"

      - name: "Veterans Day"
        unique_id: "31975705053740693752"
        state: >
          {% from 'easy_time.jinja' import month_day %}
          {{ (month_day(11, 11)|as_datetime).date() }}
        attributes:
          days_until: >
            {%- from 'easy_time.jinja' import month_day %}
            {%- set x = ((month_day(11, 11)|as_datetime) - today_at()).days %}
            {{ iif(x < 1, x + 365, x) }}
        availability: "{{ now() is defined }}"

      - name: Independence Day
        unique_id: "9084317551034684857"
        state: >
          {% from 'easy_time.jinja' import month_day %}
          {{ (month_day(7,4)|as_datetime).date() }}
        attributes:
          days_until: >
            {%- from 'easy_time.jinja' import month_day %}
            {%- set x = ((month_day(7, 4)|as_datetime) - today_at()).days %}
            {{ iif(x < 1, x + 365, x) }}
        availability: "{{ now() is defined }}"


# VARIABLE DATE

  ## MONTH WEEK DAY

      - name: "Martin Luther King Jr"
        unique_id: "496217893819475026"
        state: >
          {% from 'easy_time.jinja' import month_week_day %}
          {{ (month_week_day(1, 3, 1)|as_datetime).date() }}
        attributes:
          days_until: >
            {%- from 'easy_time.jinja' import month_week_day %}
            {%- set x = ((month_week_day(1, 3, 1)|as_datetime) - today_at()).days %}
            {{ iif(x < 1, x + 365, x) }}
        availability: "{{ now() is defined }}"

      - name: "Mothers Day"
        unique_id: "749819475062189326"
        state: >
          {% from 'easy_time.jinja' import month_week_day %}
          {{ (month_week_day(5, 2, 7)|as_datetime).date() }}
        attributes:
          days_until: >
            {%- from 'easy_time.jinja' import month_week_day %}
            {%- set x = ((month_week_day(5, 2, 7)|as_datetime) - today_at()).days %}
            {{ iif(x < 1, x + 365, x) }}
        availability: "{{ now() is defined }}"

      - name: "Fathers Day"
        unique_id: "962741899473268150"
        state: >
          {# third Sunday of June #}
          {% from 'easy_time.jinja' import month_week_day %}
          {{ (month_week_day(6, 3, 7)|as_datetime).date() }}
        attributes:
          days_until: >
            {%- from 'easy_time.jinja' import month_week_day %}
            {%- set x = ((month_week_day(6, 3, 7)|as_datetime) - today_at()).days %}
            {{ iif(x < 1, x + 365, x) }}
        availability: "{{ now() is defined }}"

      - name: Thanksgiving
        unique_id: "69425309251060427914"
        state: >
          {# 3rd Thursday in November #}
          {% from 'easy_time.jinja' import month_week_day %}
          {{ (month_week_day(11, 4, 4)|as_datetime).date() }}
        attributes:
          days_until: >
            {%- from 'easy_time.jinja' import month_week_day %}
            {%- set x = ((month_week_day(11, 4, 4)|as_datetime) - today_at()).days %}
            {{ iif(x < 1, x + 365, x) }}
        availability: "{{ now() is defined }}"

      - name: Memorial Day
        unique_id: "20611770923315821822"
        state: >
          {# last Monday in May #}
          {% from 'easy_time.jinja' import last_day_in_month %}
          {{ (last_day_in_month(5, 1)|as_datetime).date() }}
        attributes:
          days_until: >
            {%- from 'easy_time.jinja' import last_day_in_month %}
            {%- set x = ((last_day_in_month(5, 1)|as_datetime) - today_at()).days %}
            {{ iif(x < 1, x + 365, x) }}
          availability: "{{ now() is defined }}"

      - name: Labor Day
        unique_id: "78754309251267813130"
        state: >
          {# 1st Monday in September #}
          {% from 'easy_time.jinja' import month_week_day %}
          {{ (month_week_day(9, 1, 1)|as_datetime).date() }}
        attributes:
          days_until: >
            {%- from 'easy_time.jinja' import month_week_day %}
            {%- set x = ((month_week_day(9, 1, 1)|as_datetime) - today_at()).days %}
            {{ iif(x < 1, x + 365, x) }}
        availability: "{{ now() is defined }}"

  ## LUNAR-DERIVED

      - name: "Mardi Gras"
        unique_id: "734459509122779462132"
        state: >
          {% from 'easy_time.jinja' import easter %}
          {{ (easter()|as_datetime - timedelta(days=47)).date() }}
        attributes:
          days_until: >
            {% from 'easy_time.jinja' import easter %}
            {% set x = ((easter()|as_datetime 
            - timedelta(days=47)) - today_at()).days%}
            {{ iif(x < 1, x + 365, x) }}
        availability: "{{ now() is defined }}"

      - name: "Easter"
        unique_id: "189497506268132794"
        state: >
          {% from 'easy_time.jinja' import easter %}
          {{ easter() }}
        attributes:
          days_until: >
            {% from 'easy_time.jinja' import easter %}
            {% set x = ((easter()|as_datetime) - today_at()).days %}
            {{ iif(x < 1, x + 365, x) }}
        availability: "{{ now() is defined }}"

[jasondefuria]

@Didgeridrew

Selection of Sensor Configurations with ‘Days Until’ as an attribute

Does this go in configuration.yaml, or somewhere else?

[Didgeridrew]

@jasondefuria

Does this go in configuration.yaml, or somewhere else?

Yes…

The template sensor configuration shown above does follow the proper syntax to be used in configuration.yaml. But, it could also be placed, as-is, in a different file as long as that file used the appropriate method when it was split from configuration,yaml.