Aidilfitri & Aidiladha · 2027
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When the moon is sighted, the celebration is confirmed.
Two celebrations
One name, two festivals
Hari Raya Puasa (Aidilfitri) ends the fasting month. Hari Raya Haji (Aidiladha), about two months later, marks the Haj pilgrimage. Both are gazetted public holidays.
Hari Raya Puasa
186dWednesday, 10 March 2027
Hari Raya Haji
254dMonday, 17 May 2027
They are not two halves of one festival. Aidilfitri closes the fasting month and is the larger one: the morning prayer, then visiting that runs on through Syawal. Aidiladha marks the Haj and the sacrifice, and is quieter: prayer, then the korban, and the day ends there for most people. The gap between them sits around 68 days but is not fixed, because the two Islamic months in between can each run 29 or 30 days.
Both dates move about 11 days earlier each Gregorian year, which is why a date you remember from a few years ago is no guide at all. MUIS sets them from calculated crescent visibility and announces the confirmed month the evening before it starts, and MOM gazettes the public holiday about a year and a half ahead (MOM). The two systems do not always agree at first: in 2022 the gazetted Hari Raya Puasa date was revised after MUIS adopted new calculation criteria, and the 2022 page has that story.
The order of things
What happens when
Most people get one part of this backwards. Using 2026 as the worked example:
- The lights go up before the fasting starts. The Wisma Geylang Serai Hari Raya light-up was switched on 14 February 2026 (PMO), five days before Ramadan began. The bazaar is a Ramadan event, not a Hari Raya one.
- Ramadan runs 29 or 30 days. The Mufti announced 1447H would begin on 19 February 2026, the crescent having set four minutes before the sun (MUIS). Mosques ran tarawih nightly, with 110,000 spaces a night and 15,500 more at neighbourhood qaryahs.
- The last ten nights are the peak. Mosques are fullest, some add qiyamullail, and zakat fitrah has to be paid before the Aidilfitri prayer rather than merely during the month.
- Aidilfitri, then weeks of visiting. The public holiday is one day. Open houses continue through Syawal, so an invitation three weekends later is normal.
- Aidiladha, about ten weeks later, with an earlier deadline. Korban registration closes before the day, not on it: for 1447H it shut on 22 May 2026 for a holiday on 27 May (MUIS). If you plan to take part, that is the date to diarise.
What the public holiday is actually worth
Both Hari Rayas are gazetted, so each is a paid day off for employees covered by the Employment Act. What you get when one lands on a weekend is not symmetrical, and this is the part people get wrong. If it falls on your rest day, usually Sunday, the following Monday becomes the public holiday. If it falls on a non-working day, which Saturday is on a five-day week, nothing rolls forward: you are owed either another day off or one extra day of salary at the gross rate, and the employer chooses which (MOM).
It bites more often than you would think. Hari Raya Puasa fell on a Saturday in 2023 and 2026, and Hari Raya Haji in 2025. The year page for each gazetted year shows the weekday, the run of days off it produced and how far the date moved, so you can see the shape before you spend leave on it.
Ramadan, then Aidilfitri
The fasting month runs for roughly 30 days before Hari Raya Puasa: sahur before dawn, iftar at sunset, the last ten nights, and the giving that comes due before the Aidilfitri prayer.
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Guides for the season
When Is Hari Raya in Singapore? Why the Date Keeps Moving
Hari Raya has no fixed date. It drifts about 11 days earlier each year, and Singapore fixes it by calculated crescent visibility (Imkan ar-Rukyah) through MUIS, not by naked-eye sighting. Here's the real Singapore date, a year-by-year table, and why your calendar app can be a day off.
Hari Raya Haji in Singapore: 2026 & 2027 Dates, Korban & Aidiladha
When Hari Raya Haji falls in Singapore (27 May 2026 and 17 May 2027), what Aidiladha marks, and the part that actually needs planning: the korban booking window, which opens and closes weeks before the day itself.
Ramadan in Singapore: When It Is and How the Month Works
When Ramadan falls in Singapore and the actual shape of the month: how the date is fixed, the daily fast, sahur and iftar, the bazaars, the last ten nights, and the obligations that come due before Hari Raya Puasa.
Laylatul Qadr: Which Nights to Look for It
The exact night of Laylatul Qadr isn't revealed. It's sought across the last ten nights of Ramadan, especially the odd ones. Here's what it marks, why it isn't a fixed date, which nights to watch, and how it's observed in Singapore.