Pembrook 16-Month Wall Calendar

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Our family makes a lot of use of a wall calendar. It’s where we put our doctor’s appointments, our days off school, and our vacation plans. It helps keep us organized, with an easy place where everyone can see our schedule at a glance. We’ll use digital calendars, too, but the wall calendar still is really valuable to us.

Come December, many retailers start stocking calendars for the coming new year. If you’re a longtime Aldi shopper, you might be aware that the grocer has been quietly selling wall calendars for years.

The Pembrook 16-Month Wall Calendar is an Aldi Find, which means stores only get one shipment. Once it’s sold out, you won’t be able to get it again until it comes back … which in this case means you’ll have to wait until next year to get the next year’s calendar. You can’t order the calendar online from Aldi if it’s sold out at your local store.

In 2025, the calendars cost $3.99. That price has held steady going back to at least 2020. It’s a lot less than most other calendars.

Aldi typically sells a few styles, which vary from year to year. We’ve seen a little bit of everything over the years. For 2025, we got a beaches theme.

The calendar’s features include:

• Measures 12″ x 11″ when folded; 12″ x 22″ when open
• Printed on embossed paper
• Includes metal grommet for reinforced hanging ability

The calendar is sold in a protective sleeve. Both the sleeve and calendar are made with thick paper that has a plastic-like feel, so at first glance this calendar seems like a durable one that will hold up well over the course of a year.

In our experience, the embossed paper does not appear to keep you from writing important dates and memos on the calendar.

The hole on the front cover has a metal grommet that will hopefully keep the calendar from ripping (a problem I often have with other calendars that don’t have a grommet) as it hangs on its nail through the year as well. The front cover is the only place that has a grommet, though; the holes in the pages for all the months are not reinforced. We usually put hole protectors on those.

These have long been advertised as a 16-month calendar. In reality, they’re not.

Yes, they do have 16 months of dates on them, but 4 of those months — September through December of the previous year — are on one page. What’s more, since the calendars usually come out in December, at least three of those months are obsolete by the time you get the calendar. In other words, this is really just a standard 12-month calendar, but since it’s a budget calendar and you do get a full 12 months in the year you care the most about, it’s maybe not a huge deal.

The rest of the pages look like you’d expect them to. Each month has some of the usual features of wall calendars, like major holidays and moon phases. There’s also ample space to write down what you need to, which is the main reason people get these calendars in the first place.

The Verdict:

We’ve used Aldi’s Pembrook 16-Month Wall Calendar in the past and have found it to be a competent, inexpensive wall calendar. It isn’t the most flashy calendar, but with a grommet and reinforced paper, it gets the job done.