{"id":51622,"date":"2026-02-03T15:00:50","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T14:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/?p=51622"},"modified":"2026-02-03T15:00:50","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T14:00:50","slug":"bonatiro-reveals-date-of-ramadan-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/?p=51622","title":{"rendered":"Bonatiro Reveals Date of Ramadan 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Astronomer Loth Bonatiro has revealed, based on astronomical data, the date of the first day of the holy month of Ramadan for the year 2026.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement on Tuesday, Bonatiro explained that astronomical data indicates the conjunction of the sun and the moon will occur on February 17 at 13:03, which is the day the crescent is observed after sunset.<\/p>\n<p>He added that because the conjunction occurs at that time, there will not be enough time after sunset for the Ramadan crescent to be visible.<\/p>\n<p>He continued: &#8220;This means that February 18 will be the completion of the month of Shaban, and therefore the first day of Ramadan will be February 19, 2026.&#8221;<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<p><em>Reference: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sabqpress.dz\/%d8%a8%d9%88%d9%86%d8%a7%d8%b7%d9%8a%d8%b1%d9%88-%d9%8a%d9%83%d8%b4%d9%81-%d9%85%d9%88%d8%b9%d8%af-%d8%ad%d9%84%d9%88%d9%84-%d8%b4%d9%87%d8%b1-%d8%b1%d9%85%d8%b6%d8%a7%d9%86\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">link<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Astronomer Loth Bonatiro has revealed, based on astronomical data, the date of the first day of the holy month of Ramadan for the year 2026. In a statement on Tuesday, Bonatiro explained that astronomical data indicates the conjunction of the sun and the moon will occur on February 17 at 13:03, which is the day &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51621,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"rank_math_lock_modified_date":false,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","iawp_total_views":17,"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51622\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/51621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}