Frequently asked questions

This site uses the tabular Islamic calendar, a fixed arithmetic method. Many mosques instead confirm the new month by moon sighting (ru'yah), which can shift dates by a day, especially around Ramadan and Eid.

Visit our dedicated Urdu Date Today page for the current Hijri day, month and year in Urdu and English, recalculated automatically every day.

Visit Islamic Date Today for the live Hijri date plus the current Islamic month and how many days remain in it.

The Gregorian date today in Pakistan is the same as anywhere else. The Hijri date can occasionally differ by a day if Pakistan's Ruet-e-Hilal Committee confirms a new month by moon sighting a day earlier or later than this site's tabular calculation.

Dates are shown in Nastaliq, the calligraphic script traditionally used for Urdu, alongside a Latin transliteration and the Gregorian equivalent.

These are the digit forms (۰۱۲۳...) traditionally used when writing numbers in Urdu and Persian-script languages. The numeral toggle lets you read dates in the form you're most comfortable with.

It uses the same tabular calculation as the rest of the site. Pick any date in either calendar and it instantly shows the equivalent date, entirely in your browser — no data is sent anywhere.

Yes. Because the tabular calculation is a fixed formula rather than an observation-based method, it can compute a Hijri date for any Gregorian date, past or future, and vice versa.

It's a month-by-month browsable calendar for 2027, showing the Gregorian date and matching Hijri date for every single day, with Fridays (Jumu'ah) and Islamic events marked directly on the grid.

They cover the same year from different angles: /calendar/2027/ is a Gregorian-first, browsable day grid; Urdu Calendar 2027 lists every Hijri month's start date; Islamic Calendar 2027 focuses on the major religious observances with explanations.

Yes — see the dedicated Ramadan Calendar 2027 and Islamic Calendar 2027 pages, plus the full month-by-month 2027 calendar.

2027 is our current focus. As the site grows, additional years will be added following the same tabular method.

Couplets are drawn from classical Urdu poets including Mirza Ghalib, Allama Iqbal, and Mir Taqi Mir, all of whose work is in the public domain, shown with a transliteration and English translation.

Yes. The featured couplet rotates through a curated set based on the day of the year, so it stays the same all day and changes the next.

Ghalib, Iqbal, and Mir represent three different eras and moods of Urdu poetry — see our Meet the Poets section on the homepage — and all three died long enough ago that their work is safely in the public domain, letting us feature it freely and accurately.

No. They're our own plain-language rendering meant to convey the sense of the couplet for readers still learning Urdu, not a word-for-word scholarly translation.

Prayer times are calculated from your device's coordinates using standard astronomical formulas. If location access isn't available, times default to Mecca, or you can pick one of six preset cities instead.

If you'd rather not share your location, or your browser blocks it, tapping a city — including major cities across Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Afghanistan and the Gulf — loads live prayer times for that city instead.

No. Your coordinates are sent directly to the prayer-time calculation service for that one request and are never stored on our servers. See the privacy policy.

Use "Use my location" instead, which works for any location your browser can detect, not just the six presets shown.

Iqbal Day (9 November) marks the birth anniversary of the poet-philosopher Allama Iqbal. Ghalib's Urs marks the death anniversary of Mirza Ghalib. Both are included because Urdu Calendar tracks literary heritage alongside religious observances.

Yes, entirely. No account, subscription, or payment is required for any feature on the site.

Not currently. The website is built to work well on mobile browsers, so there's no separate app needed.

No. Urdu Calendar is a separate site in the same Daily Calendar family, focused specifically on Urdu language, script, and Islamic dates rather than Hindi literature or Hindu Panchang.