Find the exact Gregorian dates of every Hajj ritual day for any Hijri year, see a live countdown to Hajj, and check whether your own trip's arrival and departure dates cover the full ritual period.
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The core rites of Hajj take place across a fixed six-day window of the Islamic lunar calendar, from the 8th to the 13th of Dhul Hijjah, the twelfth and final month of the Hijri year. Because the Hijri calendar is roughly 10 to 12 days shorter than the Gregorian solar year, these dates shift earlier every Gregorian year and cycle through all four seasons over about three decades — the reason Hajj can fall in the height of summer one decade and the depths of winter the next. This calculator converts the 8th through 13th of Dhul Hijjah of any Hijri year you choose into their Gregorian equivalents using the tabular Kuwaiti algorithm, the same conversion method used consistently across this website's Hijri tools, and adds a live countdown or current-day status. If you provide your own arrival and departure dates, it further checks whether your personal trip fully covers the required ritual window, helping with flight and visa planning well ahead of time.
One of the more disorienting parts of planning for Hajj, especially for first-time pilgrims booking flights and time off work years or months in advance, is that the pilgrimage does not fall on the same Gregorian date twice. Because the Islamic calendar is lunar and about 10 to 12 days shorter than the solar year most travel systems use, the 8th of Dhul Hijjah — the day Hajj rites formally begin — drifts steadily earlier through the Gregorian calendar year after year.
That drift means a Hajj that begins in mid-June one year might begin in early June the next, and continue shifting until, across a cycle of roughly 33 years, it has passed through every season. For pilgrims coordinating flights, accommodation in Makkah and Madinah, employer leave, and visa applications, translating "8th to 13th Dhul Hijjah" into concrete calendar dates is a genuinely practical first step, not just a curiosity.
This calculator handles that conversion directly. Enter any Hijri year — the estimated upcoming one is filled in automatically — and it computes the Gregorian date of each ritual day: the 8th (Yawm al-Tarwiyah, departure to Mina), the 9th (Yawm Arafah, the pillar of Hajj), the 10th (Eid al-Adha, the day of sacrifice), and the 11th through 13th (the days of Tashreeq, spent stoning the Jamarat in Mina). A live status line also tells you, based on today's date, how many days remain until Hajj begins, whether it is currently underway, or whether that year's Hajj has already concluded.
Because so many trips involve arriving several days before the 8th to adjust to the heat and perform Umrah first, and departing anywhere from the 12th to several days after the 13th, the calculator also accepts your own planned arrival and departure dates. It checks these against the ritual window and tells you plainly whether your trip's dates fully bracket the six core days, or whether your current plan risks missing part of the pilgrimage on either end — a check well worth making before finalizing non-refundable travel.
As with all tabular Hijri calculations, keep in mind this is a reliable mathematical estimate rather than an official religious announcement. Saudi Arabia's Supreme Court confirms the actual start of Dhul Hijjah through real moon-sighting testimony each year, and that confirmed date can land a day earlier or later than the tabular calculation shown here — a difference worth double-checking against official government announcements as your travel dates approach.
This calculator uses the tabular Kuwaiti Hijri algorithm, the same conversion method used consistently across this website, to convert the 8th through 13th of Dhul Hijjah of your chosen Hijri year into their corresponding Gregorian dates.
Tabular calculation is a mathematical estimate based on a fixed calendar pattern. Saudi Arabia's Supreme Court officially confirms the start of Dhul Hijjah through an actual moon-sighting committee, which can shift the announced dates by a day in either direction.
The core rites run for six days, from the 8th to the 13th of Dhul Hijjah, though many pilgrims arrive several days earlier and some depart after only the 12th, using the early-departure (Ta'ajjul) concession.
Yes. Enter your planned arrival and departure dates and the calculator will tell you whether your trip fully covers the 8th through 13th of Dhul Hijjah, or if it is missing days on either end.
Yes, you can enter any Hijri year, past or future, and the calculator will compute the matching Gregorian dates for that year's Hajj days using the same tabular algorithm.