Ramadan 2026: Muslims throughout the globe have began fasting each day from dawn to sundown as Ramadan 2026 begins this week. The month-long auspicious interval marks particular prayers, reflection and charity.
Ramadan, additionally referred to as Ramazan or Ramzan, is the ninth month of the Islamic lunar calendar, throughout which households collect for meals to interrupt the quick. Ramadan 2026 started on Wednesday in Saudi Arabia and different Gulf countries, whereas it started on Thursday in India and neighbouring nations.
Friday, 20 February, is the second day of Ramadan 2026 in India.
The timings fluctuate by nation on account of totally different moon-sighting practices.
Dawn-to-dusk fasting throughout Ramadan is certainly one of the 5 pillars of Islam throughout which religious Muslims abstain from eating, ingesting, smoking, evil ideas and actions, and having marital relations from daybreak till sundown.
Sehri and Iftar timings of Ramadan 2026
Apart from particular prayers, Ramadan contains two essential meals every day. One: Sehri,the pre-fast meal earlier than dawn. The different is Iftar, the meal to interrupt fasts after sundown.
Sehri and Iftar timings fluctuate in totally different nations. The timings additionally fluctuate by a couple of minutes every day, in accordance with dawn and sundown. It varies from metropolis to metropolis in India.
In Delhi, for instance, if the first roza is on Thursday, 19 February, the devotees begin their quick by stopping consuming and ingesting at 5.37 AM – the finish of Sehri. Muslims will observe a fast for about 12 hours and break the quick at 6.15 PM, referred to as Iftar.
Sehri and Iftar timings additionally fluctuate amongst Muslims, relying on the Sunni and Shia communities. The distinction is normally of some minutes.
Every 12 months, Ramadan begins about 10 days sooner than the earlier 12 months. This is as a result of dates are decided by the lunar Hijri calendar used in Islam. Each month of Hijri calendar has 29 or 30 days.
Will there be two Ramadan in 2030?
For most of the nations in the Northern Hemisphere, the fasting period is shorter this 12 months and will proceed to lower till 2031, when Ramadan will embody the winter solstice, the shortest day of the 12 months, Al Jazeera reported.
For fasting Muslims dwelling south of the equator, the number of fasting hours shall be longer than final 12 months, the report stated.
Because the lunar 12 months is 11 days shorter than the photo voltaic 12 months, Ramadan shall be noticed twice in 2030 – first starting on 5 January and then on 26 December.
(With inputs from businesses)
