Islamic calendar · Muharram 1449 AH
Ashura is the tenth day of Muharram, the first month of the Hijri calendar — a day many Muslims fast.
Tuesday 15 June 2027 (10 Muharram 1449 AH), with the date beginning the evening before, Monday 14 June 2027.
±1 day · Dates on this page are astronomical (Umm al-Qura) estimates. Dates your community actually observes — especially around Ramadan and the Eids — can differ by a day based on local moon sighting.When the Prophet ﷺ came to Madinah, he found the Jews fasting this day. They said it was the day Allah saved Musa and his people from Pharaoh, and that Musa fasted it in thanks.
He said: we have more right to Musa than you. He fasted it and told the Muslims to fast it. He said he hoped Allah would forgive the sins of the year before through it.
Sahih al-Bukhari 2004 · Sahih Muslim 1130 · Sahih Muslim 1162فَأَوْحَيْنَآ إِلَىٰ مُوسَىٰٓ أَنِ ٱضْرِب بِّعَصَاكَ ٱلْبَحْرَ ۖ فَٱنفَلَقَ فَكَانَ كُلُّ فِرْقٍۢ كَٱلطَّوْدِ ٱلْعَظِيمِ
Then We inspired to Moses, "Strike with your staff the sea," and it parted, and each portion was like a great towering mountain.
After Ramadan, no fast mattered more to the Prophet ﷺ than this one.
Sahih al-Bukhari 2006He said: if I live until next year, I will fast the ninth. He died before it came.
Sahih Muslim 1134Whoever wishes may fast it.
Sahih al-Bukhari 2000Pharaoh's army came after them. When the two sides saw each other, Musa's people said they would be caught. Musa said: my Lord is with me, He will guide me. Allah parted the sea, saved Musa and those with him, and drowned the others.
Ash-Shu'ara 26:60–66Quraysh fasted Ashura, and the Prophet ﷺ fasted it too. On this day the Ka'bah used to be covered.
Sahih al-Bukhari 2002 · 1592He fasted it and told the Muslims to fast. The companions had their children fast it, and gave them toys of wool until sunset.
Sahih al-Bukhari 2004 · 1960Fasting Ashura became a choice, not a duty.
Sahih al-Bukhari 2002Al-Husayn ibn Ali, the Prophet's grandson, was killed at Karbala on the day of Ashura, with members of his family and his companions. The Prophet ﷺ had said that al-Hasan and al-Husayn are the leaders of the youth of Paradise.
Ibn Kathir, al-Bidaya wa al-Nihaya · Jami' at-Tirmidhi 3768Read and listen in the Niyat app
This date is set by the Islamic lunar calendar, not the Gregorian one. Muharram is the first month of the twelve Hijri months, and each Hijri month runs 29 or 30 days, beginning with the birth of the new moon. Twelve lunar months make a year of 354 or 355 days — about 11 days shorter than the Gregorian year — so the same Islamic date lands about 11 days earlier each Gregorian year.
The Gregorian date shown is the Umm al-Qura calculation: the official Islamic calendar of Saudi Arabia, built from astronomical calculation of the new moon, and the calendar this site's Hijri calendar converter uses. Other communities wait for the new crescent to be seen with the eye, or follow a different country's announcement — so the day your community actually observes can sit a day either side of the estimate. Because the Islamic day begins at sunset, the date begins the evening before the Gregorian day shown.
Ashura sits nine days into the Hijri year: 10 Muharram. For 1449, with 1 Muharram expected on Sunday 6 June 2027, the 10th falls on Tuesday 15 June 2027. A day many Muslims fast, it is dated like every Hijri date — by the month's start — so communities that begin Muharram a day later keep 10 Muharram but observe it on Wednesday 16 June instead.
The same Hijri date, three cycles running. The Hijri year is about 11 days shorter than the Gregorian year, so each cycle lands earlier in the Gregorian calendar.
| Hijri date | Expected Gregorian date | Weekday | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 Muharram 1448 AH | 25 June 2026 | Thursday | previous cycle |
| 10 Muharram 1449 AH | 15 June 2027 | Tuesday | this page |
| 10 Muharram 1450 AH | 3 June 2028 | Saturday | next cycle |
All rows are Umm al-Qura estimates; each carries the same ±1 day moon-sighting uncertainty. Generated 2026-09-24.
10 Muharram 1449 AH is expected on Tuesday 15 June 2027 (Umm al-Qura), with the day beginning the evening before, Monday 14 June. Moon sighting can shift it by a day.
10 Muharram 1448 AH fell on or around 25 June 2026; 10 Muharram 1450 AH is expected on 3 June 2028.
It is fixed at 10 Muharram in the Hijri calendar; the Gregorian date follows from when Muharram begins, which this page estimates with the Umm al-Qura calculation.
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