Hijri to Gregorian date converter

How to convert a Hijri date

1. Pick the direction: “Gregorian → Hijri” or “Hijri → Gregorian”.
2. Enter the date. For a Hijri date, type the day, choose the month by name and type the year.
3. Choose the calendar: Umm al-Qura (the official one in Saudi Arabia) or the civil (tabular) calendar.
4. See the converted date, the day of the week and the table with the start of the 12 months of the Hijri year.

What the Hijri calendar is and how it is converted

The Hijri (or Islamic) calendar is lunar: each month begins with the new moon and the year has 354 or 355 days, about 11 days fewer than the Gregorian year. That is why Hijri dates keep “shifting” through the seasons: Ramadan falls about 11 days earlier each Gregorian year. The era counts from the Hijra in the year 622, and years are written with the letters AH (Anno Hegirae).

There are several ways to fix the months. The Umm al-Qura calendar is the one Saudi Arabia uses officially and is calculated astronomically in advance; the civil or tabular calendar follows a fixed arithmetic rule. They can differ by one or two days. Examples with Umm al-Qura: 1 Ramadan 1447 falls on 18 February 2026, and 1 November 2026 is 21 Jumada I 1448.

Good to know

• This is a conversion based on a calculated calendar: the real start of each month in your country may depend on moon sighting and differ by a day. For religious dates, check with your local authority.
• It works between the years 1300 and 1600 AH (1882 to 2174 Gregorian). Outside that range, the browser has no data.
• Month names come from your browser in your language; if a translation is missing, the usual transliteration is shown.

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