شوال
Shawwal 1448 AH
Eid al-Fitr opens it, and six days of recommended fasting may be kept anywhere in the month after the feast.
Begins on Tuesday 9 March 2027 and runs 30 days, to Wednesday 7 April 2027.
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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Tuesday 9 March 2027 · Shia
Eid al-Fitr
The Feast of Breaking the Fast — the first of Shawwal. Fasting is forbidden on this day.
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Tuesday 9 March 2027 · Sunni
Eid al-Fitr
The Feast of Breaking the Fast — the first of Shawwal. Fasting is forbidden on this day.
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Wednesday 10 March 2027 · 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 1448: Sunday 21 March 2027, Monday 22 March 2027 and Tuesday 23 March 2027.
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: 1447 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.