When is Laylat al-Qadr in 2027?

How this date is set

This date is set by the Islamic lunar calendar, not the Gregorian one. Ramadan is the ninth 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.

Which night it is cannot be fixed on a calendar: it is expected in the last ten nights of Ramadan, and many observe the 27th. In 1448 those nights begin with the evening of Saturday 27 February 2027 (the start of the 21st night) and end with the dawn of Monday 8 March — or Tuesday 9 March if Ramadan runs 30 days in your community. The 27th night itself begins at sunset on Friday 5 March 2027 and runs to dawn on Saturday 6 March. Shift the whole window by a day if Ramadan starts a day later in your community.