How many fortnights until the start of Ramadan 2027?

The start of Ramadan in plain numbers

As of Thursday, October 1, 2026, the start of Ramadan is 130 days away. Put another way, that is 18 full weeks and 4 extra days, about 4 calendar months, or 3,120 hours if you count from midnight. The date lands on a Monday, in ISO week 6 of 2027, and it is day 39 of 365 in that year.

This page is not a snapshot. The figures are recalculated every time it loads, using the Asia/Karachi time zone, so tomorrow the count will be one day smaller. If you bookmark the page you will always see the current gap rather than the number that was true on the day you saved it, and nobody has to edit anything for that to stay correct.

Planning around the date

For work and school planning the useful numbers are working days and weekends. Between today and the start of Ramadan there are 92 weekdays (Monday to Friday), 19 Saturdays and 19 Sundays. Take out public holidays in your region and you have a realistic count of working days left. If you are paid every two weeks, expect about 9 paydays before then, and about 18 if you are paid weekly.

Some people prefer to break a long wait into stages. The quarter mark of the range is Monday, November 2, 2026, the halfway point is Saturday, December 5, 2026, and the three-quarter mark is Wednesday, January 6, 2027. By the time the start of Ramadan arrives, 10.7% of 2027 will have gone by. There are 19 Fridays in the range, which is handy if your deadlines or deliveries land at the end of the week.

About the start of Ramadan

The first day of Ramadan, computed from the Umm al-Qura Hijri calendar (observed start dates can shift ±1 day with local moon sighting). Because the start of Ramadan is a religious observance, many families organize travel, meals, services and time off around it. Congregations usually publish their own schedules, so treat the date here as the calendar date and confirm local timings with your community.

the start of Ramadan follows the Islamic lunar calendar, whose months last 29 or 30 days. The date here comes from the tabular Hijri calendar; when a community sights the crescent moon locally, the observed date can differ by a day.

the start of Ramadan in other years

In the coming years the start of Ramadan falls on: Friday, January 28, 2028 (484 days from today); Tuesday, January 16, 2029 (838 days from today); Saturday, January 5, 2030 (1,192 days from today); Tuesday, December 16, 2031 (1,902 days from today). Last year it fell on Wednesday, February 18, 2026. Comparing the weekdays shows how the holiday drifts through the week, which matters when you plan long weekends, school breaks and travel that depends on which day of the week it lands.

What comes next

The next major date after the start of Ramadan is Valentine's Day on Sunday, February 14, 2027, 6 days later. If you are planning a stretch of several weeks, it helps to know where the next break or deadline falls so you can space out your commitments.

the start of Ramadan: last time, next time and next year

The most recent the start of Ramadan was Wednesday, February 18, 2026, 225 days ago (32 weeks and 1 day); the next one is Monday, February 8, 2027, 130 days from today (18 weeks and 4 days). These results move forward on their own: once a date has passed, the page switches to the next occurrence, so the same address stays correct in every year and you never need to look for a year-specific page. The table under the key figures lists the same dates with their weekdays.

Using this fortnight counter

A fortnight is fourteen days. The word is common in the UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand, and it lines up with biweekly pay cycles and many rental and billing periods. The figure shows complete fortnights, with leftover days alongside.