islamicdate.today answers one question every day: what is the Islamic date today? It shows the Hijri date for Pakistan, India and Bangladesh next to the worldwide Umm al-Qura date used in Saudi Arabia, explains why the two differ, and adds free tools for planning the Islamic year: a converter, a monthly calendar, a Ramadan calendar and countdowns to every major date.
This page explains who the site is for, how we work out the dates, the standards we hold ourselves to and how the site is paid for.
Why this site exists
The Hijri calendar runs behind all of Muslim life: the fasts, the two Eids, Hajj, the blessed nights, even the zakat year. Yet a simple search for today's Islamic date often returns pages that are a day out for South Asia, show only the Saudi date, or bury the answer under clutter.
We built islamicdate.today to fix that. Open it on any day and the date is the first thing you see, in English, Arabic and Urdu, for your region. Most of our visitors are in Pakistan, and many come from India, Bangladesh, the Gulf, the UK and the USA, so every page states which date applies where.
What you can do here
Everything is free, needs no account and loads fast on a basic phone connection.
There are also pages for the Urdu date and Sindhi date, for each of the 12 Islamic months, and for the date in Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, the UK and the USA.
How we work out the dates
The worldwide date is the Umm al-Qura calendar, Saudi Arabia's calculated civil calendar, which we take from the Aladhan calendar service. Pakistan, India and Bangladesh begin their months by local moon sighting, usually one day after Saudi Arabia, so for South Asia we show the Umm al-Qura date of the previous day. We checked that rule against the first fast of Ramadan announced in Pakistan and India in 1445, 1446 and 1447 AH, and it matched every time.
The full method, with the moon phases, the 29th-evening decision and how committees confirm a month, is on how we determine the Islamic date.
Our standards
Accuracy you can check
We publish our method so anyone can verify it, and the date updates itself at midnight Pakistan time without anyone editing a page. Country pages switch at midnight in their own country.
Honest about limits
A calculated calendar gives the expected date. The confirmed start of Ramadan, the Eids and the Day of Arafah comes from your local moon sighting committee, and we say so on every page where it matters.
Careful with religious content
Explanations of what a month or a night means are based on the Quran, the well-known hadith collections and mainstream scholarship. Where scholars differ, for example on sighting versus calculation, we describe both views instead of picking one.
Corrections
If a committee announces a date that differs from our calculation, or you spot a mistake, tell us. Every message reaches the site team, and genuine errors are corrected.
Privacy
We count visits on our own server without cookies and without storing IP addresses, and the counts are deleted after 90 days. The details are in our privacy policy.
How the site is paid for
islamicdate.today is independent and free. It is paid for by advertising from Google AdSense, which keeps every tool open to everyone. Ads never change the dates or the content, and the privacy and legal pages carry no ads.
Our sister site and other Hijri calendars
The same team runs chandkitarikh.today for readers in India. These sites are also useful when you want a second view of the date:
Get in touch
Questions, corrections or ideas for a new tool are welcome. Write to us through the contact form or at contact@islamicdate.today. We read every message.