# gpbl/react-day-picker

DayPicker is a customizable date picker component for React. Add date pickers, calendars, and date inputs to your web applications.

Repository: https://github.com/gpbl/react-day-picker
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/react-day-picker
Homepage: https://daypicker.dev
Language: TypeScript
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: react, datepicker, react-component, calendar-component, calendar, calendar-widget, component, date-fns, date-picker, date-picker-range
Last push: 2026-08-26T07:34:48+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 94/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 99, release rhythm 84, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4266, "days_push": 7, "days_rel": 110, "gap_med": 7.0, "n_releases_24m": 43}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 6846, forks 777 (observed 2026-08-28T04:09:50.857857+00:00)

## What it is
React DayPicker is a customizable date picker component library for React, supporting single, multiple, and range date selections with extensive calendar customization props. It is written in TypeScript, uses date-fns for date handling, and supports localization, multiple calendar systems, and WCAG 2.1 AA accessibility.

## Use cases
- add a date picker to a react form
- build a calendar with date range selection
- create a booking widget with selectable date ranges
- localize a calendar into another language or calendar system
- style a date picker with tailwind css
- make an accessible date input for screen readers
- display multiple months in a calendar view
- limit selectable dates to a specific range

## When to choose
- you need a highly customizable, accessible date picker in a React app
- you need range or multi-day selection out of the box
- you need non-Gregorian calendar support like Persian, Hijri, or Hebrew
- you want a minimal, styleable component with CSS variables or Tailwind

## When to avoid
- your project does not use React
- you need a full-featured date-time picker with time-of-day selection
- you want a zero-dependency solution since it relies on date-fns

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: stable
- function: ui-components, date-time, form-handling, internationalization, accessibility
- domain: web-development, frontend, accessibility
- platform: cross-platform
- tags: react, date-picker, calendar, date-fns, typescript, react-component, localization, web-server, nodejs

## Member repositories
- gpbl/react-day-picker (main) score 94

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:50.857857+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T17:41:50.501627+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/gpbl/react-day-picker (fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:50.857857+00:00, sha 3dae6d110b67)
  - homepage: https://daypicker.dev (fetched 2026-08-29T08:38:12.465483+00:00, sha 5a9ba5ade35d)
  - site_page: https://daypicker.dev/docs/anatomy (fetched 2026-08-29T08:38:12.473465+00:00, sha be1e43b4b328)
  - site_page: https://daypicker.dev/docs/styling (fetched 2026-08-29T08:38:12.475311+00:00, sha 75a33db7051a)
  - site_page: https://daypicker.dev/docs/appearance (fetched 2026-08-29T08:38:12.477348+00:00, sha 531cdc0e8e1f)
  - site_page: https://daypicker.dev/docs/caption-and-nav-layouts (fetched 2026-08-29T08:38:12.479193+00:00, sha 7077199134a9)
  - site_page: https://daypicker.dev/docs/grid-and-months (fetched 2026-08-29T08:38:12.481104+00:00, sha 1f2578b2d0b4)
  - site_page: https://daypicker.dev/docs/week-numbers-and-footer (fetched 2026-08-29T08:38:12.482866+00:00, sha d78b0125507d)
  - site_page: https://daypicker.dev/docs/navigation (fetched 2026-08-29T08:38:12.484762+00:00, sha a32782483778)
  - site_page: https://daypicker.dev/changelog (fetched 2026-08-29T08:38:12.469098+00:00, sha 39cbaaf1f5a2)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.