An economic calendar that actually includes South African releases, in South African time. One line of HTML.
Every economic calendar widget on the market covers the Federal Reserve, the ECB and the Bank of England. Almost none of them cover the South African Reserve Bank's MPC dates, the Stats SA CPI release or the quarterly labour force survey, which are the three events that move the rand most reliably. If your audience trades ZAR pairs or JSE-listed shares, a global calendar leaves out the releases they most need to plan around. This widget puts them back in.
The calendar shows the next set of scheduled releases across South Africa, the United States, the euro area and the United Kingdom, filterable by region or by impact so a reader can strip it down to the handful of events that matter to them. High-impact entries are marked, and each entry names the agency that publishes it so a reader can go to the primary source rather than a data aggregator.
An important limitation, stated plainly because a calendar that pretends to more precision than it has is worse than no calendar at all: the dates shown are derived from each agency's published release pattern rather than fetched from an official feed. They are reliable for planning a week or a month ahead, and they should be confirmed against the SARB and Stats SA calendars before a reader positions around a specific release. The widget links to both.
Like the rest of the set, it loads no tracking, writes no cookie and carries no advertising. That is unusual for a calendar widget specifically, since the commercial ones are typically funded by exactly the data collection you would rather not add to your page.
Free for any site, including commercial ones. Keep the small credit line at the bottom of the widget so readers can find the full version. Nothing is stored about the people who use it. See the disclaimer.
| Parameter | Values | What it does |
|---|---|---|
theme | auto, light, dark | Default follows the reader's own system setting, so the widget looks right on a dark site and a light one without you choosing. |
accent | Six hex digits, e.g. accent=1A56DB | Recolours the header bar and the primary button to match your brand. |
header | 1 or 0 | Set to 0 to hide the title bar when your page already has a heading above the widget. |
breakdown | 1 or 0 | Set to 0 to hide the calculation breakdown for a more compact block. |
corners | 1 or 0 | Set to 0 for square corners if your design has no rounding anywhere else. |
width | full | Removes the 520px maximum so the widget stretches to its container. |
Parameters are added to the iframe URL as a normal query string, for example
/embed/position-size-calculator.html?theme=dark&accent=1A56DB&header=0. The
widget builder lets you set all of them visually and hands you the finished code.
The widget lists upcoming releases in date order with the publishing agency and an impact marker. The South African entries cover the SARB repo rate decision, CPI, PPI, GDP, the quarterly unemployment figures, retail sales, the trade balance, foreign exchange reserves, the February Budget and the November medium term statement.
The international entries cover Non-Farm Payrolls, US CPI, FOMC decisions, ECB decisions and Bank of England decisions, which between them account for most of the imported volatility in USD/ZAR. Filters let a reader show only South African events, only US events, or only the high-impact ones across all regions.
The releases your readers care about are the ones global calendars leave out.
A forward calendar gives a news page a reason to be revisited rather than read once.
A clean, ad-free calendar of official statistical releases with the publishing agency named for each entry.
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They are generated from each agency's published release pattern: the SARB MPC meets on a regular bi-monthly cycle, Stats SA publishes CPI in the third week of each month, Non-Farm Payrolls falls on the first Friday, and so on. They are expected dates rather than confirmed ones.
For anything you or your readers intend to trade around, confirm the exact date and time against the SARB or Stats SA release calendar. The widget links to both and labels every entry as expected.
It shows dates. Times are deliberately omitted because they vary by agency and are the detail most likely to be wrong in a derived schedule. Stats SA typically publishes CPI at 10:00 SAST and the SARB announces MPC decisions in the afternoon, but a reader planning an entry around a release should take the time from the official calendar.
Yes. The reader can filter to South Africa, to the United States, or to high-impact events across all regions using the buttons at the top of the widget. The filter is client side and instant.
Roughly eighteen months of scheduled entries are built into the widget, and it always displays the next fourteen upcoming items. Past entries drop off automatically, so the widget does not go stale the way a hand-maintained list on a page does.
Yes, and it works particularly well in a sidebar on that kind of site, where a forward-looking calendar gives readers a reason to come back. Since it filters itself by date, it needs no maintenance once placed.
Not at the moment. It covers macroeconomic and central bank releases only. Company reporting dates come from the JSE and individual issuers rather than a single statistical calendar, and there is more on how to use them in the JSE earnings calendar guide.
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