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There is a particular kind of clock-watching that only happens in Ramadan. From mid-afternoon onwards the question drifts through every house, office and group chat: how long until iftar? This page answers it second by second. The big timer above counts down to today's Maghrib — the moment the fast ends — in the city you have chosen, using that city's own stored timetable and its own time zone, so what you see is the time on the ground where you actually are.
Iftar is not tied to sunset in a vague sense; it begins at Maghrib, the prayer whose time starts the instant the sun has fully set. That is why a countdown has to be city-specific. A few kilometres can shift the minute, and a different country can shift the hour entirely. Pick your city with the switcher, and the countdown, the Sehri card and the fasting-length card all update together.
Ramadan 1448 is expected to begin on Monday 8 February 2027, subject to moon sighting. Before the month starts, this page shows a preview based on day 1 of the calendar and counts towards the first fast's iftar, so you can plan the opening evening well in advance.
Behind the timer sits the same 30-day timetable used on the full city calendar pages: Fajr and Maghrib for every day from 8 February to 9 March 2027, calculated for your city's coordinates with the calculation method customary in its country. Each second, the page works out the current time in your city's time zone, finds today's Maghrib, and converts that local moment into an exact instant so the remaining hours, minutes and seconds are precise — not a rough estimate refreshed once a minute.
Once Maghrib has passed, the countdown does not simply stop at zero. It rolls forward to tomorrow's iftar, because the next fast is already the one you are preparing for. During the last ten nights it keeps the same steady rhythm, which makes it a handy companion on the nights of Laylatul Qadr when families stay up between iftar, taraweeh and sehri.
Under the timer you will find a progress bar showing how much of today's fast has elapsed. It starts filling at Fajr, when sehri ends and the fast begins, and reaches full at Maghrib. On a February day in most of our 144 cities the fast runs somewhere between about eleven and thirteen and a half hours, so by mid-afternoon the bar is usually past the halfway mark — a small but genuine morale boost when the afternoon feels long.
The bar is also a quiet planning tool. Cooks use it to time the frying so pakoras hit the table hot rather than hopeful; hosts use it to send the 'we break fast at…' message with confidence; parents use it to show children, in a way a clock cannot, that most of the day is already behind them.
The final hour carries a special weight in the tradition: the supplication of a fasting person at the moment of breaking the fast is described as one that is not turned away. Many people use these minutes for unhurried dua — for family, for the year ahead, for people who are struggling — before the dates and water come out.
Practically, the last hour is also when mistakes happen: ovens forgotten, guests stuck in traffic, the azan app on silent. A visible countdown on a phone or kitchen tablet removes the guesswork. When the timer reaches zero, break the fast promptly — delaying iftar without a reason is against the spirit of the day — and use the dua for breaking the fast shown on the calendar pages.
If your family is spread across countries, one person's iftar can fall in another person's mid-afternoon. The city switcher on this page lets you check any of the 144 cities instantly, and the full calendar link under the timer opens the complete month for that city, including the branded PDF you can send to relatives who prefer paper on the fridge.
If you are travelling during Ramadan, the majority view is that you follow the times of the place you are physically in: you end sehri at that city's Fajr and break your fast at that city's Maghrib, even if the day feels unusually short or long compared with home.
Iftar begins at Maghrib, the moment the sun has completely set. All four Sunni madhabs — and the Jafari school, which adds a short precautionary wait — agree that Maghrib is the endpoint of the fast; the countdown on this page targets the stored Maghrib time for your city.
Because Maghrib is a local event. Each city has its own timetable, calculated for its coordinates and read in its own time zone, so switching city retargets the timer to that city's sunset moment.
The timer rolls over and starts counting to tomorrow's iftar, using the next day's Maghrib from the same calendar. After the final day of Ramadan it points you towards the Eid countdown instead.
The target instant is exact to the second, derived from the city's stored Maghrib time. The underlying timetable itself can differ by about a minute from a local mosque's announced time, so treat the last minute as 'get ready' rather than a legal ruling.
Yes. Before 8 February 2027 the page labels its figures as a day 1 preview and counts towards the first iftar of the month, so you can plan opening-night meals and invitations early.