How to sync Trello with Google Calendar (and actually keep it in sync)

You set due dates on your Trello cards. You live in Google Calendar. The obvious question: can you get the two to talk to each other, so a card with a Friday deadline shows up next to your Friday meetings?

Yes. There are a few ways to do it, and they are not equal. Some are read-only. Some need a third-party tool. One of them updates the date in both places when you drag a card. This guide walks through each option so you can pick the one that matches how you actually work.

Can I connect Trello to Google Calendar?

You can. Trello gives every board an iCalendar feed (an ICS link). Google Calendar can subscribe to that link and show your Trello card due dates as events. This is the official, no-plugin path, and it is free.

The important thing to understand up front: a subscribed ICS feed is one-way and read-only. Trello card due dates flow into Google Calendar. Nothing flows back. If you drag an event in Google Calendar to a different day, it does not touch the Trello card, and the change is overwritten on the next refresh. Google also refreshes subscribed calendars on its own schedule, which can lag several hours behind.

How to get the Trello ICS calendar feed

The feed lives behind the Calendar Power-Up. The steps:

1. Open the board, click the menu, go to Power-Ups and enable Calendar.
2. Open the Calendar Power-Up, find its settings, and enable the iCalendar feed.
3. Copy the ICS URL it generates.
4. In Google Calendar, go to Other calendars, click the +, choose From URL, and paste the link.

That gives you one board's due dates inside Google Calendar. Repeat per board if you run several. This is the Trello ICS calendar feed method, and it is the cleanest free option when you only need to see deadlines.

Is there a calendar on Trello? How does the calendar work in Trello?

Trello does have a calendar, but it is a Power-Up rather than a core view. Once you enable the Trello calendar Power-Up, a Calendar button appears in the board header. It plots every card that has a due date or start date onto a month or week grid. You can drag a card to a new day inside that calendar and the Trello card due date updates.

The limit is scope. The Trello calendar Power-Up shows one board at a time. If your work is split across boards, you are flipping between calendars, and there is no combined view in Trello itself.

Does Trello have a master calendar?

Not natively. Trello has no built-in view that merges every board into one calendar. The closest official option is enabling the iCal feed on each board and stacking all of those feeds inside Google Calendar, which gets you a combined picture but stays read-only and a bit fiddly to maintain.

This is the gap that pushes people to a dedicated calendar layer. Xello was built for exactly this: it merges 100+ Trello boards into a single drag-and-drop calendar, colour-coded by board, so a week reads as one timeline instead of twenty tabs.

Connect Trello to Google Calendar with a two-way sync

If you want changes to flow both directions, the read-only ICS feed is not enough. Here are the routes to a real Trello to Google Calendar two-way sync:

Zapier (or Make). You can build a Zapier Trello Google Calendar automation: when a card gets a due date, create a Google Calendar event. With more zaps you can mirror updates. The trade-off is that it is rule-based, runs on a schedule or trigger, and true bidirectional editing takes several zaps to wire up and maintain. It also counts against your task quota.

A dedicated Trello calendar tool. Tools built around the Trello calendar handle the sync as a feature instead of a recipe you assemble yourself. This is where Xello fits.

How Xello handles Trello Google Calendar sync

Xello is a calendar built on top of Trello. Instead of one board on a grid, every board you choose lands in one calendar.

• Drag to reschedule. Move a card to a new day and the due date updates in Trello instantly. No zap, no refresh delay.
• Every view has its own ICS feed. Subscribe from Google, Apple or Outlook, and your cards sit next to your meetings. The feed refreshes on its own.
• Smart Inbox. Capture a task from email or your phone, drop it into the inbox, and schedule it onto the calendar later.
• Natural-language search. Type "overdue marketing cards" and get them, across every board.
• Works with Trello Free. No paid Trello plan required.

So the honest split: the Trello ICS feed -> Google Calendar route shows deadlines in your calendar for free, one-way. Xello gives you one calendar across all boards where rescheduling writes back to Trello, plus an ICS feed into Google on top. If you only want to glance at deadlines, the free feed is fine. If you actually plan and reschedule across many boards, the unified calendar saves the tab-hopping.

Can I use Trello as a calendar?

Yes, with the Trello calendar Power-Up for a single board, or with a tool like Xello for a unified view across boards. Trello stores the date on the card; the calendar is just a different lens on the same data. The card stays the source of truth, which is why moving an event around should ideally write back to the card rather than drift out of sync.

How do I create a content calendar in Trello? Does Trello have a content calendar?

Trello does not ship a content calendar template as a separate product, but it makes a solid one. The usual setup:

1. Create a board for your content pipeline with lists like Ideas, Drafting, Review, Scheduled, Published.
2. Give each post a card with a due date equal to its publish date.
3. Enable the Calendar Power-Up to see the publishing schedule as a month grid.
4. Drag cards between days to reschedule posts.

For a team running content across multiple channels or clients, the single-board limit bites quickly. A multi-board calendar lets you see every channel's publishing schedule in one place. See our roundup of the best Trello calendar power-ups for how the options stack up for content planning.

Can Google Tasks sync with Google Calendar?

Yes, but that is a separate thing from Trello. Google Tasks appears in Google Calendar natively when you turn on the Tasks calendar in the sidebar. It does not connect to Trello, though. If your tasks live in Trello, the ICS feed or a tool like Xello is the bridge to Google Calendar, not Google Tasks.

Picking the right method

• Just want to see Trello deadlines in Google Calendar, for free: use the Trello ICS calendar feed per board. Read-only, slight refresh lag.
• Want event automation and you already use Zapier: build a Zapier Trello Google Calendar zap. Flexible, but you maintain the recipes.
• Run many boards and want to reschedule from one calendar with changes saved back to Trello: use Xello's Trello calendar view. 14-day trial, then Solo at 3.99 EUR per month.

The right choice comes down to one question: do you need to read your Trello dates in Google Calendar, or do you need to plan in a calendar and have Trello stay correct? The free feed answers the first. A purpose-built calendar layer answers the second.