How to make your Ramadan timetable
- Pick your city or town. Type its name and choose it from the list, or tap Use my location. The list has about 1,800 places, including every British town over 45,000 people. Your location is used on your device only.
- Check the calculation method and Asr. The tool picks the method usually used in that country (Umm al-Qura in Saudi Arabia, Karachi in Pakistan, ISNA in North America, Diyanet in Turkey, and so on). Change it to the one your mosque uses.
- Set the first day of Ramadan to the date your mosque or moon-sighting committee announces.
- Print or save it. Download the one-page PDF (A4 or US Letter), add the 30 suhoor and iftar times to your phone's calendar with the .ics file, or copy a link that opens the same timetable.
Ramadan 2027: the dates
The Umm al-Qura calendar of Saudi Arabia puts 1 Ramadan 1448 on Monday 8 February 2027, so the first tarawih prayer is on the evening of Sunday 7 February 2027. Many countries and mosques begin on the day their own moon sighting confirms, which can be a day later, Tuesday 9 February 2027. The month has 29 or 30 days, so Eid al-Fitr falls on Tuesday 9 March 2027 or Wednesday 10 March 2027 with an Umm al-Qura start. The timetable lists 30 days and marks day 30, which is only fasted if the new moon isn't seen after the 29th fast.
How to read the timetable
- Suhoor ends (Fajr): true dawn, when the fast begins. Finish eating and drinking before this time.
- Imsak (optional): a precaution some timetables print 5 to 15 minutes before Fajr.
- Iftar (Maghrib): sunset, when the fast ends, plus any precaution minutes the method adds. Shia methods wait until the sun is about 4° below the horizon.
- Sunrise, Dhuhr, Asr and Isha complete the daily prayers. Sunrise is when Fajr prayer time ends.
- Fast: the time from Fajr to Maghrib.
Why timetables disagree
Maghrib is sunset, so iftar times from different sources usually agree to within a few minutes. Fajr and Isha depend on how far below the horizon the sun has to be, and scholars and institutions set that differently. Near the equator a degree moves the time by about 4 minutes; in the UK, Canada or Scandinavia it moves it by 6 minutes or more, so 15° and 18° can be 20 to 40 minutes apart. Asr differs by school: Hanafi Asr is 35 to 75 minutes later than the standard time used by the Shafi'i, Maliki and Hanbali schools. And many mosques add precaution minutes or round to a convenient time.
If your mosque's printed timetable differs, choose its method, then open More options and set the difference under Adjust to match your mosque. The PDF, the calendar file and the link all use your adjusted times. Where your mosque publishes a timetable, it is the one to follow.
The methods
- Muslim World League (MWL): Fajr 18°, Isha 17°. The most widely used international convention; common in Europe, the Far East and parts of the Americas.
- Islamic Society of North America (ISNA): Fajr 15°, Isha 15°. Used by many mosques in the United States and Canada.
- Egyptian General Authority of Survey: Fajr 19.5°, Isha 17.5°. Egypt, and widely in Africa, Syria, Lebanon and Iraq.
- Umm al-Qura University, Makkah: Fajr 18.5°, Isha 90 minutes after Maghrib, 120 minutes in Ramadan. The official times of Saudi Arabia.
- University of Islamic Sciences, Karachi: Fajr 18°, Isha 18°. Pakistan, India, Bangladesh and Afghanistan, and many South Asian mosques abroad.
- Dubai (IACAD): Fajr 18.2°, Isha 18.2°, with a few minutes of precaution. The United Arab Emirates.
- Qatar (Ministry of Awqaf): Fajr 18°, Isha 90 minutes after Maghrib. Qatar.
- Kuwait (Ministry of Awqaf): Fajr 18°, Isha 17.5°. Kuwait.
- Diyanet İşleri Başkanlığı, Turkey: Fajr 18°, Isha 17°, with Diyanet's precaution (temkin) minutes. Turkey, and many Turkish mosques in Europe.
- Kemenag, Indonesia: Fajr 20°, Isha 18°, with 2–4 minutes of precaution (ihtiyat), rounded up. Indonesia's Ministry of Religious Affairs.
- JAKIM, Malaysia: Fajr 18°, Isha 18°, with 1–2 minutes of precaution (ihtiyati), rounded up. Malaysia's Department of Islamic Development.
- MUIS, Singapore: Fajr 20°, Isha 18°, Dhuhr and Maghrib a minute after noon and sunset. The Islamic Religious Council of Singapore, also used in Brunei.
- Moonsighting Committee Worldwide: Fajr and Isha from seasonal tables by latitude (Khalid Shaukat), limited to 18°. Popular in the UK and North America, and designed for high latitudes.
- Union des Organisations Islamiques de France (12°): Fajr 12°, Isha 12°. Used by some French mosques.
- Spiritual Administration of Muslims of Russia: Fajr 16°, Isha 15°. Russia.
- Ministry of Habous, Morocco: Fajr 19°, Isha 17°, Maghrib 5 minutes after sunset. Morocco.
- Ministry of Awqaf, Jordan: Fajr 18°, Isha 18°, Maghrib 5 minutes after sunset. Jordan.
- Institute of Geophysics, University of Tehran: Fajr 17.7°, Isha 14°, Maghrib when the sun is 4.5° below the horizon. The official times of Iran (Shia Ithna Ashari).
- Shia Ithna Ashari (Leva Institute, Qum): Fajr 16°, Isha 14°, Maghrib when the sun is 4° below the horizon (fiqh Jafari). Used by Shia communities worldwide.
Far north or south, the sun may not get far enough below the horizon for Fajr or Isha, as in Scotland and Scandinavia in early summer. The high-latitude rule then sets them from a share of the night (angle-based by default). During Ramadan 2027, in February and March, the angles are reached even in northern Norway, so the rule changes nothing for the angle-based methods; the Moonsighting Committee method uses its own rule, one seventh of the night, above 55° north. The table underlines any time a rule sets.
How the times are calculated
The sun's position comes from the formulas in Jean Meeus's Astronomical Algorithms, computed in your browser for the city's coordinates (from GeoNames) and converted to local time with your browser's time-zone database, daylight saving included. We checked the results against timetables published by Umm al-Qura (Makkah), the Moonsighting Committee Worldwide and East London Mosque (London), the Egyptian General Survey Authority (Cairo), the University of Tehran's Institute of Geophysics, Diyanet (Istanbul), Kemenag (Jakarta), JAKIM (Kuala Lumpur), MUIS (Singapore) and the Islamic Council of Norway (Oslo). They agree to within one minute, and within two for Istanbul and Oslo, whose publishers don't state their exact coordinates or rounding.
Need a calendar for the rest of the year? The printable calendar makes monthly and yearly PDFs with holidays, and lined paper is handy for a Ramadan journal or a Quran reading plan.