Islamic date today: the Hijri date now

Hijri calendar for your location

The Hijri date depends on where you are: moon sighting can move a month’s start by a day between countries. Share your location, or pick a city, to see this month’s calendar for your place with the Hijri date under each day.

Gregorian to Hijri

Hijri to Gregorian

Upcoming Islamic dates

The next date of each major occasion in the Umm al-Qura calendar, with the days remaining. Dates that depend on the moon may shift by a day where you live.

The Islamic calendar: 12 Hijri months of 1448 AH

The Hijri year has 12 lunar months of 29 or 30 days, about 354 days in all, so Islamic dates move about 11 days earlier each Gregorian year. Start dates follow the Umm al-Qura calendar; local moon sighting can move them by a day.

How Awqatly works out the Hijri date for your country

A Hijri month begins with the new crescent, and countries do not all start it on the same day. Awqatly starts from the Umm al-Qura calendar and moves the first day of a month by a day where a country’s own rule says so. That shift is the Hijri offset. This is why the Islamic date today can differ by a day between Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, the UK and the USA.

How the crescent is calculated

We calculate the positions of the Moon and the Sun at sunset on each evening after the new moon, and measure how visible the thin crescent is with Yallop’s criterion (the q value). The limits are calibrated against moonsighting.com observation reports, and the maths uses the open-source Astronomy Engine. Our Najaf rule gave the same month start as TheShia.org’s calculation in 41 of 42 months we checked.

“Seen by eye” means a q value of at least −0.14 (zone B or better). For Najaf we accept q ≥ −0.30, which also counts a crescent that can be found with a telescope and then seen. The month starts for the coming years are worked out ahead of time, so every page shows the same dates.

For the USA we use the criterion of the Fiqh Council of North America, taken from the European Council for Fatwa and Research: the month starts the next day if, at sunset somewhere on Earth, the Moon is at least 8° away from the Sun and at least 5° above the horizon. It does not need the crescent to be seen, and it agrees with the Council’s published start for Ramadan 1447 (18 February 2026).

When the announced date is different

A calculation shows when the crescent can be seen. It cannot know what a moon-sighting committee will announce. When an authority announces a different start, we record it, and the announced date replaces the calculated one for that country and month. Your mosque may still start a day earlier or later, so check with it for Ramadan and the two Eids. For Pakistan we read the Ministry of Religious Affairs’ own Hijri calendar every hour, so the committee’s decision is used as soon as the Ministry publishes it.

How the announced dates are found: our automatic agents

Two small automatic agents, which are programs with fixed rules and not a generative AI model, check official sources for us. One reads the Pakistan Ministry of Religious Affairs’ own Hijri calendar every hour. The other watches the Saudi Press Agency every few minutes on the evenings around the 29th of each Hijri month, looking for the Supreme Court’s announcement of the new month.

An agent changes a date only when the text it reads is clear, comes from the official source we listed, and lies within two days of our calculation. It never overrides a date our editor has set by hand, every change is logged, and where no announcement is read the calculation above stays in force. We do not use X (Twitter), social media or other prayer-time websites as sources.

Where the offset is used

Share your location or pick a city above, and the Hijri date at the top of this page, the converter and the calendar all follow your country’s rule. The same dates appear on city pages, in the Ramadan and Eid dates, the Islamic days and the prayer-times widget.