About Ramadanfold
We make one thing: a printable Ramadan pack for a household, with the month's times for your city, a chart for each child and a shared Quran reading plan, built in your browser.
Why we made it
Getting a household ready for Ramadan usually means three or four things that do not talk to each other: a timetable from one website, a printable chart bought for each child, a reading plan worked out on the back of an envelope, and a notes app for guests and charity days. We put them in one place, made them agree with each other, and made the result print well on A4 or US Letter.
What it does
It calculates suhoor, iftar and every prayer time for each day of the month from the position of the sun, by the method you choose, and names that method on everything it prints. It makes a fasting tracker and a good-deed chart for up to 6 children, with their names in any script. It shares the 604 pages of the Quran, or a juz a day, across the people reading. The rules are all written out on how the times are worked out.
What it is not
- Not a mosque and not an authority. It gives no rulings and takes no side between schools of thought.
- Not a moon sighting. Your mosque announces the start and the end of the month; the dates here are expected dates.
- Not medical advice. Whether a child or anyone else fasts is for the family, and health questions are for a doctor.
- Not an account. Your household is kept in your browser and never uploaded.
Times are calculated; follow your local mosque for the start of the month and for prayer times.
Where the data comes from
The city list, about 3,000 cities with their coordinates and time zones, is drawn from GeoNames (geonames.org) and used under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence; we chose the cities and rounded the coordinates. The expected start of each month comes from the Umm al-Qura calendar as carried in the Unicode calendar data. The sun's position follows Jean Meeus, Astronomical Algorithms. Our tests hold the times to published values for five cities on five dates, within 2 minutes.
On your phone
On an iPhone or iPad: open the site in Safari, tap the Share button, then Add to Home Screen.
It then opens like an app, and works offline after your first visit.
Contact
Questions, and reports of a time that does not match a rule we state, go to socialreminderinfo@gmail.com. Please send your city, the date, the method and the time you expected.
Ramadanfold is not affiliated with any mosque, Islamic organisation, calendar authority or app.