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Tomorrow's Hijri date for Pakistan, India and Bangladesh, and worldwide.

Thursday, 29 October 2026

Pakistan · India · Bangladesh

17 Jumada al-Awwal 1448

١٧ جُمَادَى الأُولَى ١٤٤٨ Arabic

17 جمادی الاول 1448 Urdu

Worldwide · Umm al-Qura

18 Jumada al-Awwal 1448

١٨ جُمَادَى الأُولَى ١٤٤٨ Arabic

Today is 16 Jumada al-Awwal 1448 in Pakistan and India. In the Islamic calendar the new date begins at sunset, so tomorrow's date is already in use after Maghrib this evening.

What is the Islamic date tomorrow?

Tomorrow’s Islamic date is shown at the top of this page, with the Hijri day, month, and year, next to the Gregorian date it matches. The calendar below marks today, tomorrow, and yesterday so you can see exactly where tomorrow sits in the month. The date is read from the lunar Hijri calendar and refreshes each day on its own.

Because Islamic months begin with the sighting of the crescent moon, tomorrow’s Hijri date can vary by a day between regions. That’s most likely near the start or end of a month, when the moon is being looked for. In the middle of a month, the date is settled and the same almost everywhere.

Why people check tomorrow’s Hijri date

Knowing tomorrow’s date in advance is useful for more than curiosity. A lot of Islamic practice is timed to specific Hijri days, and a day’s notice helps you prepare:

  • Voluntary fasts. If tomorrow is a Monday or Thursday, or one of the three white days (the 13th, 14th, 15th of the Hijri month), you can make your intention and prepare suhoor tonight.
  • Islamic events. If tomorrow is the start of Ramadan, an Eid, Ashura, or the Day of Arafah, you’ll want to know before the day arrives, not on the morning of.
  • Tracking the month. Seeing tomorrow’s date keeps you oriented in the lunar month, which moves differently from the Gregorian one you see day to day.

A single day of warning is often all it takes to fast, prepare, or plan around a date you’d otherwise miss.

Why tomorrow’s date can differ between countries

If this page shows one Hijri date for tomorrow and a friend abroad sees another, neither is wrong. The Hijri calendar follows the moon, and the moon is sighted on different nights in different places.

The clearest example is the gap between regions. Saudi Arabia often begins a month a day before the Indian subcontinent, because the crescent is sighted there first. So an Indian Hijri date can sit a day behind a Saudi one. This calendar uses the widely accepted calculated method, which lands within a day for most places. For the dates that carry religious weight, the start of Ramadan, the two Eids, and the Day of Arafah, your local sighting announcement is what counts.

How tomorrow’s date is worked out

The date here is pulled from a live date service and confirmed automatically. If you’re offline, or before the live data loads, the page falls back to a calibrated calculation so it never shows a blank or an error. The calculation is tuned to match the sighting-based dates used across the Indian subcontinent, so it stays close to what your local calendar shows.

No calculation can fully replace an actual moon sighting, and that’s by design in Islam. A month is 29 or 30 days, and which one it is depends on whether the crescent is seen on the 29th evening. That can only be known on the night itself. So treat tomorrow’s date here as an accurate guide for planning, and follow your local authority for the dates that must be exact.

The Hijri calendar in brief

The Hijri calendar is the Islamic lunar calendar of 12 months and 354 or 355 days, about 11 days shorter than the Gregorian year. That’s why every Islamic date, including tomorrow’s, drifts earlier through the Western calendar each year. The years count from 622 CE, the year of the Prophet Muhammad’s ﷺ migration (the Hijra) from Makkah to Madinah, which is why they carry AH, After Hijra.

To see today’s full date, use the Islamic date today page. To convert any specific date, the Islamic date converter, and for the full month at a glance, the monthly Hijri calendar.

Reading the calendar on this page

The grid above shows the current Gregorian month with three days marked. Today sits in a light green box with a green outline. Tomorrow is the solid green box, the day this page is really about. Yesterday is the faded, dashed box. Under each Gregorian date is the matching Hijri day in green, so you can read both calendars in one place.

One thing to keep in mind: a Hijri month and a Gregorian month don’t line up. A single Gregorian month, like the one shown, usually spans the end of one Hijri month and the start of the next. So as you scan down the grid, you’ll see the small Hijri numbers climb, reach 29 or 30, then reset to 1 partway through. That reset is the moment one Islamic month ends and the next begins. If tomorrow happens to be that reset day, it marks the first of a new Hijri month, worth noting, since the first of a month can carry its own significance.

Tomorrow’s date and voluntary worship

For many Muslims, checking tomorrow’s Hijri date is really about worship, not just information. The Sunnah ties several recommended fasts to specific days, and a day’s notice is exactly what you need to act on them.

The white days, the 13th, 14th, and 15th of every Hijri month, are recommended for fasting, named for the bright full moon on those nights. Mondays and Thursdays are also recommended, and those depend on the weekday rather than the Hijri date. Then there are the bigger days: the 9th of Dhul Hijjah (Arafah), the 10th of Muharram (Ashura), and the six days of Shawwal after Eid ul-Fitr. If tomorrow is one of these, seeing it tonight gives you time to set your intention and prepare suhoor. That small bit of foresight is the quiet value of knowing the date a day ahead.

This page refreshes the date automatically, so you don’t have to do anything but check it. Bookmark it and glance at it the evening before, the way you might check tomorrow’s weather, and you’ll always know which Hijri day is coming and whether it carries a fast or an event worth preparing for.

Frequently asked questions

What is the Islamic date tomorrow?

Tomorrow, Thursday, 29 October 2026, the Islamic date is 17 Jumada al-Awwal 1448 AH in Pakistan, India and Bangladesh, and 18 Jumada al-Awwal 1448 AH worldwide.

Can the Hijri date tomorrow differ by country?

Yes. Islamic dates can differ by a day from one country to another because they depend on local moon sighting. The Indian subcontinent often sights the crescent a day after Saudi Arabia, so the Hijri date can sit one day apart.

Why do I need to know tomorrow’s Hijri date?

Knowing tomorrow’s Hijri date helps with planning voluntary fasts (like the white days or Mondays and Thursdays), preparing for an Islamic event, or simply tracking the lunar month. Many acts of worship are timed to specific Hijri dates.

How is tomorrow’s Islamic date calculated?

It is taken from the widely used calculated Hijri calendar, accurate to within a day for most regions. For dates that must be exact, such as the start of Ramadan or the day of Eid, follow your local moon sighting authority.