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Islamic Calendar
The Hijri calendar follows the moon, so Islamic dates move back about 11 days each year against the Gregorian calendar. Here is today's date and what's coming up.
Today's Hijri date
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Thursday, 9 July 2026
Upcoming Islamic dates
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Dates use the Umm al-Qura calendar and are estimates β observance in the UK is confirmed by local moonsighting announcements and may differ by a day.
How the Islamic calendar works
The Hijri calendar is a purely lunar calendar of 12 months, each lasting 29 or 30 days depending on the sighting of the new crescent moon. A lunar year is around 354 days β 11 days shorter than the solar year β which is why Ramadan drifts through the seasons, taking roughly 33 years to complete a full cycle. Year 1 corresponds to 622 CE, the year of the Prophet's ο·Ί migration (hijrah) from Makkah to Madinah.