RamadanCountdown

Sources & method

This page lists every source the site relies on and explains how the dates and the countdown are worked out.

Qur’an

Hadith

All references were checked against Sunnah.com on 16 October 2026. Narrations from Sahih al-Bukhari and Sahih Muslim are not given separate grades on Sunnah.com. Where Sunnah.com shows a grade, we show it too.

About the Laylat al-Qadr dua: Sunan Ibn Majah 3850 (opens in a new tab) has the wording اللَّهُمَّ إِنَّكَ عَفُوٌّ تُحِبُّ الْعَفْوَ فَاعْفُ عَنِّي, which we display. Jamiʿ at-Tirmidhi 3513 (opens in a new tab) has the same supplication with the additional word كَرِيمٌ (karīmun).

Astronomy and calendars

How the dates are worked out

  • Expected dates follow a published calendar together with the time of the new moon. Preliminary dates are early projections from new-moon data alone. Neither is an official announcement.
  • Eid al-Fitr is shown as two possible dates, because Ramadan may last 29 or 30 days.
  • Each night of Ramadan begins at sunset on the evening before its fasting day. The odd nights of the last ten are counted from the expected first day of fasting.
  • If your community begins Ramadan on a different day, every later date shifts by the same amount.

How the countdown works

The countdown runs to midnight at the start of the expected first day of fasting, in your device’s own time zone. The first night of Ramadan begins at sunset the evening before, at a time that depends on your location. After Ramadan ends, the countdown moves on to the next Ramadan automatically. The seconds never go below zero.

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