Islamic holidays 2028

Dates follow the Umm al-Qura calendar, the Saudi civil calendar. Each holiday begins at sunset on the evening before. Observance in practice is set by local moon sighting and can differ by a day between countries — these dates are a convention, not an authority.

Each holiday below begins at sunset on the evening before the date shown. Dates follow the Umm al-Qura calendar; observance is set by local moon sighting and can differ by a day between countries.

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9 dates across 2028. Hover a mark for the holiday and its date.

How these dates move

Where each Islamic holiday falls in the Gregorian year, 2026 to 2043. A flat line means a fixed Gregorian date; a sloping one means the calendar drifts. The dashed line marks 2028. Lines that run off the bottom reappear at the top the following year.

Islamic holidays in 2028

Holiday	Date	Day	Away
Ramadan	January 28	Friday	447 days
Laylat al-Qadr	February 23	Wednesday	473 days
Eid al-Fitr	February 26	Saturday	476 days
Day of Arafah	May 4	Thursday	544 days
Eid al-Adha	May 5	Friday	545 days
Islamic New Year	May 25	Thursday	565 days
Ashura	June 3	Saturday	574 days
Mawlid al-Nabi	August 3	Thursday	635 days
Isra and Mi'raj	December 14	Thursday	768 days

Other traditions

Hindu festivals are not listed anywhere on this site. Diwali and Holi are lunisolar and vary by region and by panchang, and there is no dependable way to compute them here — publishing a guess to a religious audience is worse than publishing nothing.