Ramadan 2028 is still ahead. It falls on Friday, 28 January 2028, 518 days after 28 August 2026. This page is kept whichever side of today the date falls on: the date and the rule behind it are worth looking up either way. For the year after this one see Ramadan 2029, and for the always-current countdown see the next Ramadan.
Ramadan 2028 is Friday, 28 January 2028
There are 518 days between 28 August 2026 and Ramadan 2028, which falls on Friday, 28 January 2028. That is exactly 74 weeks, or 352 working days once Saturdays, Sundays and the US federal holidays in between are taken out — the figure that matters if you are counting delivery lead time or a work schedule rather than sleeps. The date is 2028-01-28 in ISO form and 1/28/2028 in the US format, it falls in ISO week 4 of 2028, and it is day 28 of 366.
How the date of Ramadan is decided
Begins with the sighting of the crescent moon marking the first day of the ninth month of the Islamic calendar. Because the Islamic year is purely lunar it moves about eleven days earlier each Gregorian year, and because the start depends on local moon sighting, the date can differ by a day between countries. Any date given in advance is an estimate.
That makes it a computed date: there is no fixed day and no simple weekday rule, so it has to be worked out from a formula or a calendar of its own each year. In 2028 it works out as Friday 28 January.
This date is an estimate, not a fixed point. Ramadan depends on observation rather than arithmetic, so the date announced locally can differ by a day from any date calculated in advance, and it can differ between countries in the same year. We show the arithmetic approximation and label it, rather than presenting it as settled. If the date matters — for travel, a booking or time off — confirm it with the community or authority you are following. How we produce these dates, and which of them are approximate, is set out on the holiday sources page.
Ramadan is an observance rather than a federal holiday. Offices, banks and schools stay open unless an individual employer chooses otherwise, and it counts as an ordinary business day in every calculator here. Only the eleven federal holidays are treated as non-working days — the list and the reasoning are on the holiday sources page.
Ramadan in the years after 2028
| Year | Date | Day | Countdown |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2029 | 16 January 2029 | Tuesday | Ramadan 2029 |
| 2030 | 6 January 2030 | Sunday | Next Ramadan |
| 2031 | 15 December 2031 | Monday | Next Ramadan |
Both the date and the weekday move, because the rule is not tied to either.
Every convention used above — whether the start date counts, how month ends are clamped, which holidays close an office — is written out on the methodology page, including how we count the 352 working days above.