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The Islamic Calendar Planning Guide

What 18,876 real Muslim events say about how each Hijri month is actually programmed: what communities run, who it is for, which weekday and what time it lands on, and how the shape of a month changes from its first ten days to its last. Free, and built from counted events rather than opinion.

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Most Ramadan planning starts with last year's WhatsApp thread.

Every year the same questions come round. Do we put the youth night on the Friday or the Saturday. When does qiyam start pulling more people than iftar. How early do we open registration for the weekend school. Is the khatm on a weekday or a weekend this year. Most committees answer them from memory, and memory is one masjid deep.

This guide answers them from 18,876 events that real communities actually ran. Not a survey, not best practice, not what someone thinks a month should look like — a count of what organizers did, month by month through the Hijri year, with the weekday and the hour attached.

It is free, it does not need an Ummah account, and it names no community and no city. What it gives you is timing, and timing is most of the job.

The twelve months

Counted from events published on Ummah. Geographic and organization-level detail is deliberately excluded. Events from 2024-10-01 to 2027-09-03.

Muharram

1,507

439 communities

  • Other (no theme word) 37.2%
  • Social, food and festivals 16.3%
  • Halaqa, classes and lectures 13.7%

Safar

1,324

383 communities

  • Other (no theme word) 39.7%
  • Social, food and festivals 17.2%
  • Halaqa, classes and lectures 13%

Rabi' al-Awwal

1,804

465 communities

  • Other (no theme word) 42.2%
  • Halaqa, classes and lectures 16%
  • Social, food and festivals 15%

Rabi' al-Thani

1,837

452 communities

  • Other (no theme word) 40.9%
  • Social, food and festivals 14.4%
  • Halaqa, classes and lectures 13.8%

Jumada al-Awwal

968

207 communities

  • Other (no theme word) 41.1%
  • Social, food and festivals 16.3%
  • Halaqa, classes and lectures 9.9%

Jumada al-Thani

586

186 communities

  • Other (no theme word) 41%
  • Social, food and festivals 16.7%
  • Halaqa, classes and lectures 11.8%

Rajab

480

129 communities

  • Other (no theme word) 41.3%
  • Social, food and festivals 14.8%
  • Halaqa, classes and lectures 12.9%

Sha'ban

875

187 communities

  • Other (no theme word) 28%
  • Ramadan and Hijri days (general) 17.5%
  • Halaqa, classes and lectures 14.7%

Ramadan

2,369

438 communities

  • Iftar and suhoor 23.2%
  • Qiyam and taraweeh 19%
  • Other (no theme word) 14.8%

Shawwal

2,275

495 communities

  • Other (no theme word) 27.6%
  • Eid prayers and celebrations 26.2%
  • Jumu'ah and daily prayers 10.8%

Dhu al-Qi'dah

2,537

500 communities

  • Other (no theme word) 35.6%
  • Halaqa, classes and lectures 14.6%
  • Social, food and festivals 10.7%

Dhu al-Hijjah

2,314

540 communities

  • Eid prayers and celebrations 26.6%
  • Other (no theme word) 25.8%
  • Social, food and festivals 9.3%

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The weekday and time pattern for every kind of event, who each month is programmed for, the busiest days on record, and a planning sheet for the next occurrence of all twelve months. Tell us who you are and it opens on this page.

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About the guide

Twelve months, one section each. For every Hijri month: how many events communities run and how many communities run them, what they are about as a share of the month, who they are for, which weekday and which time of day each kind of event lands on, the busiest days on record, and the recurring events that most communities run with the pattern each one follows. Each month also carries a planning sheet for its next occurrence, with the anchors most communities build the month around.
From 18,876 events published on Ummah by real Muslim communities, counted rather than estimated or surveyed. Nothing in the guide is an opinion about what a month should look like; it is a description of what organizers actually did.
No, on purpose. The guide is deliberately temporal and thematic: when things happen and what they are about. We strip organization names, city and location breakdowns, and verbatim event titles before the guide is built, and the build fails if any of them survive. That is the part an organizer needs, and it is the part that tells an outsider nothing about who or where anyone is.
Because the guide is worth more to us as a conversation than as a download. Knowing you run the MSA at a particular campus, or the weekend school at a particular masjid, is what lets us send you the version that is useful to you when it is updated, rather than a newsletter. We will not sell your details, and we will not send you anything you did not ask for.
Yes, entirely, and you do not need an Ummah account. If you do decide to run your events on Ummah afterwards, the Free plan is $0 a month with unlimited events, and on a paid ticket the platform fee is added at checkout and paid by the attendee, so your organization receives the full face value.
It is rebuilt from the event catalogue as the catalogue grows, so the pattern for a month sharpens each year rather than being frozen. If you give us your email you will get the update when it happens.
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