About this site
About Ramadan 2027
Ramadan 2027 is about one Ramadan, the one that begins in 2027: its dates, its fasts and what makes it different.
Who runs it
Ramadan 2027 is made by Muslims Around the World, as one of a family of small Islamic websites that each do one job well. Every site in the family is listed on the Muslims Around the World sites page.
Muslims Around the World is protecting the legacy of Ali Banat, may Allah have mercy on him, and every site in the family is part of that work. Read his story.
You can learn more with us at muslimsaroundtheworld.org: short reminders from scholars, duas with their meaning, Quran recitations and prayer times.
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Why a site about Ramadan 2027
One Ramadan, in detail. Ramadan 2027 gathers that Ramadan’s dates, its fasting hours around the world and the moon on the sighting evenings, and gives every town its own page for the month.
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How the dates and times are worked out
- Dates
- From the Umm al-Qura calendar, which is worked out in advance. Many countries and mosques start and end Ramadan by sighting the new crescent instead, which can make their dates a day later (now and then a day earlier).
- Sehri and iftar
- Sehri ends when Fajr begins and iftar is at Maghrib (sunset). Both are worked out for each place every day by the same calculation as the prayer times on muslimsaroundtheworld.org, with each country’s usual method: the Moonsighting Committee in the UK.
- Places
- Every town, city and village of the gazetteer, with its position and time zone (place names and positions: GeoNames, geonames.org, CC BY 4.0; the main cities as on muslimsaroundtheworld.org).
- The new moon
- The moment of the new moon is calculated with Jean Meeus’s method (Astronomical Algorithms, chapter 49), to give the moon’s age at sunset on the evenings the crescent is looked for.
- Clocks
- Every time is on the place’s own clocks; in the UK, Ramadan in these years falls in winter and early spring.