How to finish the Quran in Ramadan 2027: a plan for 29 or 30 days

To finish the Quran in Ramadan 2027, read 21 pages of the 604-page Madinah mushaf every day: five pages after one of the five daily prayers and four after each of the others. Ramadan 1448 is expected to begin on Monday 8 February 2027 and, by the Umm al-Qura calendar, to last 29 days, so 21 pages a day finishes on the last day of the month. If the month runs to 30 days, you finish a day early. The start is confirmed by moon sighting and can move by a day, which is why this plan is built to work for either length.

The rest of this page is the working: why 21 and not 20, what one juz a day costs when the month is short, how to fit the pages around the prayers, how long it takes, and what to do if you start late or miss a day. For the dates and the fasting times in your city, see when Ramadan 2027 begins.

Key facts

• Ramadan 1448 is expected to begin on Monday 8 February 2027 and last 29 days, with Eid al-Fitr expected on Tuesday 9 March 2027. These are calculated Umm al-Qura dates, confirmed by moon sighting.
• The Madinah mushaf has 604 pages. 604 divided by 29 is 20.8 pages a day, and divided by 30 it is 20.1.
• 21 pages a day finishes in 29 days, because 21 times 29 is 609.
• 20 pages a day leaves 44 pages for the last day of a 29-day month.
• 25 of the 30 juz run exactly 20 pages. Juz 1, 7, 11 and 25 run 21, and juz 30 runs 23.
• At a steady 80 words a minute, 21 pages take about 34 minutes a day.

Why 21 pages a day, not 20

The whole plan rests on one division. The Madinah mushaf has 604 pages: quran.com’s chapters endpoint puts An-Nas, the last surah, on page 604. Divide by the days you have:

• 30-day month: 604 ÷ 30 = 20.1 pages a day
• 29-day month: 604 ÷ 29 = 20.8 pages a day

Twenty looks like the natural target, and in a 30-day month it nearly works. Twenty pages for 30 days is 600, four pages short, which one longer evening absorbs. In a 29-day month it fails. After 28 days at 20 pages you have read 560 pages, and the last day has to hold the remaining 44, more than two ordinary days together.

Twenty-one removes the problem. 21 × 29 = 609, so the pages run out on day 29 with room to spare, and in a 30-day month you finish on day 29 with a free day in hand. The daily cost of that margin is one page, about a minute and a half at a steady pace.

Rounding matters here, and it only matters in one direction. A plan that rounds down pushes the shortfall to the last day, which is also the day with the least room left to absorb it. A plan that rounds up spends the margin early, when you have it.

What one juz a day costs in a 29-day month

“One juz a day” is the most familiar way to describe a Ramadan khatm, and the juz is a good unit. Juz boundaries are fixed to the text, so a juz plan survives a change of mushaf, which how the 30 juz divide the Quran explains in detail. The catch is the count. The same API’s juzs endpoint returns 30 juz, and the month is expected to have 29 days.

In the Madinah mushaf, measured page by page from this site’s data:

• 25 of the 30 juz run exactly 20 pages.
• Juz 1, 7, 11 and 25 run 21 pages.
• Juz 30, the juz of the short surahs, runs 23 pages.
• Juz 7, 11 and 26 open partway down a page (pages 121, 201 and 502), so each of those pages carries the end of one juz and the start of the next.

A 30-juz plan in a 29-day month therefore ends with juz 29 and juz 30 on the same day: pages 562 to 604, which is 43 pages. It is the same problem as rounding down to 20 pages, arriving at the same moment.

There are three straightforward ways to handle it:

1. Read 21 pages a day and let the juz fall where they fall. This is the simplest, and it is the plan this page recommends.
2. Keep one juz a day and read juz 30 in advance. Six pages a day for the four days before Ramadan covers its 23 pages.
3. Keep one juz a day and double up once early, for example on a weekend in the first week, so the extra juz is not left for the last day.

Every juz with its exact page range is on the juz index.

If your mushaf is not the Madinah one

The 21-page figure is for the 604-page Madinah mushaf. Other printings spread the same text over a different number of pages, and the one to watch is the 15-line IndoPak layout. The Quranic Universal Library (QUL) gives the Qudratullah 15-line layout 610 pages. At 21 pages a day, 29 days cover 609 of them, one page short. If you read that layout, make it 22 pages a day, or accept one extra page on the last day.

For any other printing, look up the number on its last page and divide it by 29, rounding up. Or plan in juz, which does not depend on the page count at all.

Fitting 21 pages around the five prayers

Twenty-one pages in one sitting is a long read for most people. Split across the five daily prayers, it becomes five short readings:

After	Pages	Running total	Time at a steady pace
Fajr	5	5	about 8 min
Dhuhr	4	9	about 6.5 min
Asr	4	13	about 6.5 min
Maghrib	4	17	about 6.5 min
Isha	4	21	about 6.5 min

The five-page slot sits after Fajr in this table because the early morning is often the quietest part of the day. If your mornings are tight, move it to whichever prayer has the most time around it. What matters is that every slot is small enough to keep on a bad day.

A February Ramadan helps. The days are short across much of the northern hemisphere. In London, our Ramadan 2027 timetable (with London selected) puts the first fast from 05:34 to 17:02 and the last from 04:40 to 17:53. The evening after iftar is long, so if a slot slips during the working day, the evening is where it goes back.

How long 21 pages take

Reading time depends mostly on your pace, so it is worth measuring rather than guessing. The pace tables in how long it takes to read the Quran work from an average of 128 words a page:

Pace	Words a minute	One page	21 pages a day
Slow, still learning	40	3 min 12 s	about 67 min
Steady	80	1 min 36 s	about 34 min
Fluent	120	1 min 04 s	about 22 min

The Quran Habit app shows 23 minutes a day for the same 30-day plan. That is not a different page count, only a faster assumed pace: the app counts about 1.1 minutes a page, close to the fluent row above. If you read more slowly, trust your own timing over either figure. Time one full page from the middle of the mushaf, anywhere between pages 100 and 500, and multiply by 21.

If your reading is still slow, reading along with a reciter can hold a steady pace for you. The Quran Habit app has 40 reciters, and 11 of them highlight each word as it is recited, so you can follow the text word by word.

Where you should be each week

A plan is easier to keep when you can check it at a glance. At 21 pages a day, the end of each week lands on a page you can find in any Madinah mushaf:

End of day	Page	You are in juz	Pages left
7	147	8	457
14	294	15	310
21	441	the last page of juz 22	163
28	588	30	16
29	604	finished	0

If you are behind at a checkpoint, spread the gap over the days that are left, as the next two sections show. If you are ahead, keep the pace anyway: the margin is worth more at the end of the month than at the start.

Starting late

If Ramadan has already begun when you start, divide the pages left by the days left. The table assumes the expected 29-day month and a start from page 1. If the month runs to 30 days, you gain one day.

You start on day	Days left	Pages a day	After each prayer	Minutes a day, steady pace
1	29	21	4 or 5	about 34
3	27	23	4 or 5	about 37
5	25	25	5	about 40
8	22	28	5 or 6	about 45
11	19	32	6 or 7	about 51
15	15	41	8 or 9	about 66
20	10	61	12 or 13	about 98

Past the middle of the month the numbers stop being comfortable for most readers. That is a reason to adjust the goal, not to give it up: finishing a few days after Eid still completes the Quran, and a steady daily reading is easier to keep than one heroic weekend.

If you have already read part of the Quran, divide the pages left by the days left. Our khatm calculator plans all 604 pages from page 1; the app’s Khatm Journey can start from the beginning or from where you are.

If you miss a day

Missing one day early costs very little. Suppose you read 21 pages a day for nine days, miss day 10, and pick up again on day 11. You have read 189 pages, 415 remain, and 19 days are left. That is 21.8 pages a day, so 22 instead of 21. One missed day, spread across the rest of the month, is one extra page a day.

The usual mistake is trying to make up the whole day the next morning. A 42-page day is the kind that breaks a plan. A 22-page day is not. Spread the gap, then carry on.

In the Quran Habit app a missed day does not wipe out your streak. The streak counts from yesterday while today is still empty, a gap of up to two days is repaired free with a reading session, and a repair always means reading.

Arabic only, or with a translation?

Both are worth doing, and they cost different amounts of time. The 21-page target and the times above are for reading the Arabic text. Reading the same pages with a translation takes longer, because you read the meaning as well as the words.

One way to have both is to keep the khatm in Arabic and read a smaller daily portion in translation, for example the first page of each day’s reading. Every surah and ayah page on this site shows a translation and names the edition it uses, with no account needed. Start from the surah index.

Why Ramadan is the month for a khatm

The Quran names Ramadan as the month in which it was sent down, in Al-Baqarah 2:185, the same ayah that tells those who witness the month to fast it.

A hadith describes the Prophet’s own Ramadan with the Quran. Ibn Abbas reported that “Gabriel used to meet him every night of Ramadan to teach him the Qur’an” (Sahih al-Bukhari 6, in the English translation by Dr. M. Muhsin Khan published on sunnah.com).

Set the plan up in Quran Habit

Quran Habit is a habit-forming Quran reading app, and its Khatm Journey does the arithmetic above for you:

1. Open Khatm Journey and choose 30 days. The plan shows 21 pages a day, the minutes a day, the date you will finish, and a line that reads 5 pages after each prayer. The app rounds up, so five pages after each prayer is 25 a day and finishes early rather than late.
2. For the expected 29-day month, choose Custom and set 29 days. The page count stays at 21.
3. If you have already read part of the Quran, set Begin from to Custom and start from your page, so the plan divides only what is left.

The app has two reading modes. Daily mode counts the ayahs you read each day afresh. Khatm mode counts each ayah once, so it follows your way through the whole Quran. You read the printed mushaf page, and you can tap any word on it to hear it. There is more on how the plan works on the Khatm plan page.

The website is free, with no account and no ads. The app is free to download, has no ads, and has an optional paid Supporter tier. Reading is never behind the paywall.

Get Quran Habit for iPhone or Android and set your Ramadan plan before 8 February.

When you finish

Plan the last day before it arrives. There is no single supplication that the Prophet taught for completing the Quran, and the long dua printed at the back of many mushafs is a custom with no named author. Our khatm dua page sets out what is actually narrated, each text with its source and its grade.