About IslamicDate.today
A clear, free, and carefully checked reference for the Islamic Hijri calendar, built to help Muslims everywhere stay oriented in the lunar year.
IslamicDate.today exists to answer a simple question reliably: what is the Islamic date, and what’s coming next? Around that, we’ve built a set of free tools, a date converter, a monthly Hijri calendar, and countdowns to the major Islamic events, so you can plan your worship and your year with confidence.
This page explains who we are, how we work out the dates we show, and the care we take to keep them accurate and trustworthy.
Our mission
The Hijri calendar runs quietly behind all of Muslim life, fasting, the Eids, Hajj, the blessed nights, yet reliable, easy-to-read information about it can be surprisingly hard to find. Many people end up unsure which Hijri month they’re in or when the next event falls.
Our aim is to fix that. We want IslamicDate.today to be the place you can open on any day and immediately know where you are in the Islamic year, with tools that are accurate, fast, and free of clutter. No paywalls, no confusion, just clear dates and clear explanations.
Accuracy first
Our dates are cross-checked against an established date service and calibrated to local sighting conventions, accurate to within a day for most regions.
Carefully checked
Dates and religious context are checked against established sources, so what you read reflects sound, mainstream understanding.
Always free
Every tool on the site, the converter, calendar, and countdowns, is free to use, with no account required.
Honest about limits
We never present a calculation as a substitute for an official moon sighting. We tell you plainly when to follow your local authority.
How we work out the dates
This is the part we take most seriously, because a date site is only as good as its accuracy. Here’s our approach, in plain terms.
Islamic months begin with the sighting of the crescent moon, which means no calculation can be perfectly certain in advance. What we provide is the widely accepted calculated Hijri calendar, cross-checked against an established date service and calibrated to match the sighting-based dates commonly followed across the Indian subcontinent. For everyday purposes and for the middle of any month, this is accurate to within a day.
Where we’re careful is the start and end of a month, and the dates that carry real religious weight. For the beginning of Ramadan, the two Eids, and the Day of Arafah, we always tell you to follow your local or national moon sighting authority. Our tools are there to help you plan and understand, not to override the announcement of your community.
Our honest position: a calculated calendar is a guide, not a ruling. We’d rather tell you this clearly than pretend a calculation can do something it can’t.
How we check our content
Dates are a matter of calculation, but the religious context around them, what a day means, how it’s observed, what the Sunnah says, needs care. We check this against established, mainstream Islamic sources, and we keep the explanations clear and free of personal opinion. Where scholars genuinely differ on a matter, we say so rather than presenting one view as the only one.
What you’ll find on the site
Everything here is built around the Hijri calendar and designed to be opened, read, and understood in seconds:
A note on trust
We know that for a site about religious dates, trust matters more than features. That’s why we’ve chosen to be transparent about our method, honest about its limits, and clear that your local authority has the final word on the dates that count. We’d rather earn your trust slowly by being accurate and straight with you than make claims we can’t stand behind.
If you ever spot something that looks wrong, please tell us. A date site improves by being corrected, and we’d genuinely rather know.
Questions, corrections, or feedback? We’d love to hear from you.
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