A leap year starting on Tuesday is any year with 366 days (i.e. it includes 29 February) that begins on Tuesday, 1 January, and ends on Wednesday, 31 December. Its dominical letters hence are FE. The most recent year of such kind was 2008, and the next one will be 2036 in the Gregorian calendar or, likewise 2020 and 2048 in the obsolete Julian calendar.

Any leap year that starts on Tuesday has only one Friday the 13th; the only one in this leap year occurs in June. Common years starting on Wednesday share this characteristic.

Any leap year that starts on Tuesday has only one Tuesday the 13th: the only one in this leap year occurs in May.

Any leap year that starts on Tuesday has only one Friday the 17th: the only one in this leap year occurs in October.

From August of the common year preceding that year until October in this type of year is also the longest period (14 months) that occurs without a Friday the 17th.

This year has three months (March, June and November) which begin on a weekend-day.

Calendars

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Applicable years

Gregorian Calendar

Leap years that begin on Tuesday, along with those starting on Wednesday, occur at a rate of approximately 14.43% (14 out of 97) of all total leap years in a 400-year cycle of the Gregorian calendar. Thus, their overall occurrence is 3.5% (14 out of 400).

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