شوال
Shawwal 1447 AH
Eid al-Fitr opens it, and six days of recommended fasting may be kept anywhere in the month after the feast.
Begins on Friday 20 March 2026 and runs 29 days, to Friday 17 April 2026.
Projected from the Umm al-Qura calendar, as ActivePray reckons it. A Hijri month truly begins when the new crescent is seen, so it can open a day either side of this. Like every day of the Hijri year, each day begins at sunset the evening before.
Its holy days
As each branch keeps them, from ActivePray’s calendars.
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Friday 20 March 2026 · Shia
Eid al-Fitr
The Feast of Breaking the Fast — the first of Shawwal. Fasting is forbidden on this day.
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Friday 20 March 2026 · Sunni
Eid al-Fitr
The Feast of Breaking the Fast — the first of Shawwal. Fasting is forbidden on this day.
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Saturday 21 March 2026 · Sunni
Six of Shawwal
Six recommended fasts kept anywhere in Shawwal after Eid — with Ramadan, as a year of fasting.
The White Days
Three days of recommended fasting each lunar month, the Ayyām al-Bīḍ, when the moon is full. In Shawwal 1447: Wednesday 1 April 2026, Thursday 2 April 2026 and Friday 3 April 2026.
In ActivePray, the Hijri date stands at the top of every day, with each prayer at its hour and the holy days and fasts of the year, in Sunni and in Twelver Shia practice.
ActivePray on the App StoreShawwal in other years: 1448 AH · 1449 AH · 1450 AH. Every month is on the Hijri months page, every holy day on the calendar and in Islam. Today’s Hijri date.