East London Mosque Announces Ramadan 2025 Prayer Timetable

Hey, about a million Londoners will fast for Ramadan. This Islamic holiday starts around February 28th. The East London Mosque shared a prayer schedule. It shows the five daily prayer times. It also lists when fasting starts and stops each day. Muslims don’t eat during daylight in Ramadan.

The fasting periods will get longer because the month ends March 30th. Fasting starts 5:08 am on February 28th. By March 30th, it starts 5:04 am. British Summertime pushes clocks forward one hour.

Ramadan might begin Feb 28 or March 1, depending on seeing the moon. Some places lack official moon sighting systems, so they use global updates. Others check astronomical predictions.

Some people search for the crescent moon themselves. More UK people do their own moon sighting now; they don’t just rely on reports from Saudi Arabia. Last year, different start dates happened.

Some started Ramadan March 11, others began it March 12. The moon’s sighting is very important. Summer Ramadan means longer fasting. Muslim officials confirm dates by seeing the moon. Sometimes, they report a “negative sighting,” meaning the moon wasn’t visible.

People look for the moon’s crescent on the 29th of each month. If they see it, the next month starts. If not, the month lasts one more day.