When Does Ramadan Begin and End?

Selected calendar: first fasting day 8 Feb 2027; final fasting day 8 Mar 2027; Eid 9 Mar 2027. Dates remain provisional and depend on the calendar authority you follow.

The first fasting day, last fasting day and Eid ul-Fitr date above belong to the calendar selected for your location. Ramadan begins with an evening before its first daytime fast. That is why the first Taraweeh is normally the evening before the date marked as day one in the timetable. Keep the evening date and the first Sehri in view when arranging work, travel or a family gathering.

A Ramadan month has twenty-nine or thirty days. A date labelled provisional is an expectation for planning; the confirmation followed by your mosque or community can change the beginning or end of the month. Check the calendar status before sharing dates. The Ramadan dates guide explains the difference between a projected calendar, a local announcement and an official public holiday.

How Many Days Are Left Until Ramadan?

The countdown uses the selected Ramadan record and the clock in your chosen location. Before Ramadan, its target is the first evening of the month. Read the label beside the numbers: an evening countdown reaches its target at sunset, while the first fasting day begins at the following dawn. A midnight date counter would answer a different question.

During Ramadan, the daily timing display helps you follow the next Sehri or Iftar boundary. If you arrive after this year’s month, the main calendar moves to the next upcoming Ramadan unless you deliberately select an older one. The year in the heading follows the active calendar. You can therefore return to the same page each year without searching for a new address.

What Are Today’s Sehri and Iftar Times?

Use the Sehri and Iftar card for the city and local date shown beside it. Sehri, also called Suhoor, is the meal before dawn. The timetable uses Fajr as the end of that eating period. Sunrise appears separately and occurs later. Iftar is the evening breaking of the fast. Its displayed time follows the selected Maghrib calculation. Quran 2:187 provides the dawn-to-nightfall basis for fasting.

The next cards show all five daily prayers and the day’s sunrise, sunset and fasting length. Fasting length is the interval between the displayed Fajr and Iftar times, so changing the calculation method can change that figure. A mosque’s congregation may start later than the calculated beginning of a prayer; check its programme when planning to attend.

Today’s card always concerns today’s local date. Outside Ramadan, it remains a daily prayer and fasting-time reference, while the full Ramadan calendar lists the selected month’s dates. For an iftar next week, find that date in the full table rather than reusing today’s time.

How Do You Find the Right Local Timetable?

Check the place shown in the location selector, especially if you have travelled or are using a new device. Device location can help select a nearby place, while choosing a city manually lets you check a timetable before a journey. If location access is unavailable or declined, type a city or country in the search field and choose the correct result.

Open Calculation settings to review the prayer method, Asr rule and high-latitude handling. Match the convention used by the mosque or timetable you normally follow. Two calculations for the same city can differ because they use different twilight angles, Asr rules or local adjustments. The calculation guide explains those choices.

The displayed time zone also matters. A schedule from a city in another zone is not made local simply by changing its name. Daylight-saving changes, where applicable, need to be reflected in the dates concerned. Recheck the selection when travelling and download a fresh calendar after changing its settings.

How Can You Download the Ramadan Calendar?

Choose your location and calendar settings, select Show my times, then open Full calendar. Each row gives a Ramadan day, its Gregorian date, Fajr, sunrise, Dhuhr, Asr, Maghrib, Isha and the calculated fast length. The first and last rows make the month’s boundaries easy to check.

Choose PDF for a complete page suitable for printing, PNG for an image with clear table text, or JPEG for a familiar image format. Print opens your browser’s print controls. Each export uses the calendar currently displayed, including its location, method, date status and time zone. Confirm those details before sending a timetable to a family group or displaying it at work.

If a local announcement changes the month’s dates, generate a new copy. A saved image or printed sheet cannot update itself. Keep the date and method notes with the timetable so that another reader knows which calendar it represents.

What Should You Prepare Before Your First Roza?

Check the first evening, the first Fajr and your mosque’s Taraweeh programme. Set a suitable alarm, decide what you will eat at Sehri and allow enough time to prepare it. Keep the next morning’s meal simple if you expect to return late from the mosque. The recommendation to take Suhoor is recorded in Sahih al-Bukhari 1923.

Plan the practical details of the day as well: the journey home before Iftar, a place to pray, and who will prepare or share the evening meal. If you are hosting, ask about the number of guests and ingredient restrictions before shopping. A small amount of preparation makes it easier to use the timetable calmly when the month begins.

What Is the Intention for Keeping a Fast?

Niyyah is the intention to observe the fast for Allah. A spoken Arabic formula is not required to make that intention. As you prepare for the next day, be clear that you intend to keep the Ramadan fast. Egypt’s Dar Al-Ifta explains that intention belongs in the heart and that juristic schools differ over some details of its timing and renewal.

The Sehri dua card includes the familiar Arabic words beginning Wa bisawmi ghadin nawaytu, with transliteration and English meaning. These are optional words of intention, not a prescribed Prophetic prayer. In this wording, “tomorrow” means the approaching fasting day when it is said before dawn. You can express your intention in your own language; the words do not replace the intention in your heart.

Which Dua Can You Read at Iftar?

The main Iftar card includes the familiar extended supplication beginning Allahumma inni laka sumtu, with Arabic, transliteration and English meaning. It is labelled as common wording. Sunan Abi Dawud 2358 records a shorter version, graded weak by Al-Albani in the cited edition. The complete extended wording is not presented as an authenticated Prophetic narration.

An additional card includes Dhahaba az-zama’u, reported in Sunan Abi Dawud 2357 and graded Hasan by Al-Albani in the cited edition. Its meaning concerns thirst passing, the veins being moistened and the reward established by Allah’s will. Read it after breaking your fast. The Quranic duas collection offers forty further passages with their verse references and context.

What Can You Make for Sehri?

The Sehri recipes collection includes ideas, from meals prepared the night before to dishes cooked shortly before dawn. Choose according to the ingredients, equipment and time available in your home. A recipe with ten minutes of preparation may still need overnight soaking or chilling, so read the waiting time before choosing it for the next morning.

Try date and cinnamon overnight oats when you want portions ready in the refrigerator, spinach and tomato omelette for a warm breakfast, or vegetable besan chilla when you want a chickpea-flour option. Egg and avocado wraps, lemon and cumin fava beans, and cardamom milk vermicelli provide different textures and familiar flavours across the week.

Each recipe lists quantities, servings and steps. Adjust portions for the people eating, check the allergen notes and keep the Fajr boundary visible while cooking. Food ideas help you plan a meal; they do not guarantee how an individual will feel during a fast.

What Can You Make for Iftar?

The Iftar recipes collection, also useful when searching for Aftar recipes, includes soups, snacks, main dishes, drinks and desserts. Start with the size of the meal you need. A household evening may need one main dish and a simple accompaniment, while a shared iftar may need a dish that can be portioned and served easily.

For starters, consider lemon red lentil soup, chickpea and potato chaat or baked potato and pea samosas. For a main meal, choose chicken and carrot rice pilaf, vegetable and yogurt biryani, ginger and tomato chicken, or chickpea and spinach curry. Cardamom rice pudding is an option when you want to prepare a dessert ahead of serving.

Read the complete method before starting, including cooling or chilling steps. Plan oven and hob space if you are making several dishes. Ask guests about allergens, keep ingredient labels available and make the final cooking plan around the actual Iftar time for that day.

How Can You Plan Quran Reading and the Last Ten Nights?

The Quran reader lets you move by Surah or Juz, search for a passage and save where you stopped on this device. A thirty-part plan is one way to organise a complete reading, but leave room for a Ramadan of twenty-nine days. Choose an amount you can read attentively and use the planner to keep track of your own routine.

For the last ten nights, check evening dates against the Ramadan calendar your community follows. The night associated with a fasting day begins at the preceding sunset. Sahih al-Bukhari 2017 directs attention to the odd nights of the last ten; a highlighted twenty-seventh night should not be presented as a certain identification of Laylat al-Qadr. The last-ten-nights guide helps you arrange prayer, reading, charity and practical commitments.

When Is Eid ul-Fitr and What Should You Arrange?

Eid ul-Fitr marks the beginning of Shawwal after Ramadan. The Eid section shows the date belonging to the selected calendar and its current status. Keep that community date separate from an employer’s leave policy or a government’s public-holiday schedule. Those arrangements may cover different days.

Confirm your mosque’s Eid prayer time and venue; the ordinary daily-prayer calculator does not set an Eid congregation. Arrange Zakat al-Fitr using the amount, form and distribution guidance followed by your community. Sahih al-Bukhari 1503 records its payment before people go out for the Eid prayer. Zakat al-Fitr is separate from the annual asset-based Zakat worksheet on this site.

Then plan transport, accessibility, visits and the meal you intend to share. The Eid guide brings those details together. Returning to the same local calendar as the month develops helps keep the final fast, Eid announcement and family plans in step.