Islamic Calendar — Printable Hijri Month Calendar with English Dates

Printable Islamic calendar with English dates

This Islamic calendar shows today’s Hijri date and prints a Hijri month — or a whole Islamic year, one month per page — laid out week by week, with the English (Gregorian) date in every square and the holy days marked: the Islamic New Year, Ashura, Mawlid, Isra and Mi’raj, Shab-e-Barat, Ramadan, Laylat al-Qadr, Eid al-Fitr, the Day of Arafah and Eid al-Adha.

Choose the Saudi Umm al-Qura calendar, the setting used in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh (usually one day later), or the tabular calendar, and adjust by a day to match your local moon sighting. Print it, or download a vector PDF or a PNG for your phone; everything is drawn in your browser.

How to use the Islamic Calendar (Printable Hijri Calendar)

1. Check Islamic date today at the top; press This month to show the current Hijri month.
2. Choose the Hijri year and Month, or Whole year for twelve pages.
3. Pick the Calendar for your region and a Moon-sighting adjustment if needed.
4. Set the first day of the week, the accent colour and the paper size.
5. Press Print calendar, or download the PDF or PNG.

Islamic Calendar (Printable Hijri Calendar) features

Reading the Islamic calendar

The Islamic (Hijri) calendar counts years from the Hijra of the Prophet Muhammad in 622 CE. Its twelve months — Muharram, Safar, Rabi al-Awwal, Rabi al-Thani, Jumada al-Ula, Jumada al-Thani, Rajab, Sha’ban, Ramadan, Shawwal, Dhu al-Qadah and Dhu al-Hijjah — have 29 or 30 days and follow the Moon, so a year has about 354 days and every month moves about 11 days earlier against the English calendar each year. That is why a printed Hijri calendar is useful: it shows at a glance which English date each Islamic day falls on.

An Islamic day begins at sunset, so the night of a holy day starts on the evening before the date printed. Saudi Arabia’s Umm al-Qura calendar is a published table (used here, and checked against the browser’s own Umm al-Qura calendar); many countries begin each month only when the crescent is seen, often a day later, which the regional setting and the adjustment let you follow. For a list of dates over several years see Islamic holidays by year, and to convert a single date the Hijri date converter.

Printing tips

Landscape A4 or Letter gives the largest squares for writing. The PDF uses standard fonts, so month names are in English transliteration; the preview, print and PNG are identical. For a Gregorian wall calendar with Hijri dates added, use the calendar generator with its Islamic dates layer.