{"id":109298,"date":"2026-04-24T09:48:22","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T04:48:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=109298"},"modified":"2026-04-24T09:48:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T04:48:22","slug":"eid-ul-adha-2026-likely-dates-and-expected-holidays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/eid-ul-adha-2026-likely-dates-and-expected-holidays\/","title":{"rendered":"Eid-ul-Adha 2026 likely dates and expected holidays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: If the moon is sighted on May 17, then Dhul-Hijjah will begin on May 18 and <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/eid-ul-adha-2026-likely-dates-and-expected-holidays-in-pakistan\/\">Eid-ul-Adha<\/a> can be celebrated from May 27 to 29.<\/p>\n<p>After the sighting of the Dhul-Qaida moon, the Islamic month has begun on April 19, 2026, after which the Ruet-e-Hilal Committee meeting for the sighting of the Dhul-Hijjah moon is expected on May 17, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>If the moon is not sighted and the month is 30 days long, then Eid is likely to be from May 28 to 30.<\/p>\n<p>According to the official calendar, Eid-ul-Adha holidays are expected from May 27 to 29 (Wednesday to Friday).<\/p>\n<p>If these holidays are combined with Saturday and Sunday (May 30 and 31), citizens can get a long holiday of five days, while if the holidays start a day earlier, this interval can be extended to six days.<\/p>\n<p>If Dhul-Hijjah starts on May 19, then the Eid holidays will be from May 28 to 30 (Thursday to Saturday), which can be combined with the Sunday holiday to form a long weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: If the moon is sighted on May 17, then Dhul-Hijjah will begin on May 18 and Eid-ul-Adha can be celebrated from May 27 to 29. After the sighting of the Dhul-Qaida moon, the Islamic month has begun on April 19, 2026, after which the Ruet-e-Hilal Committee meeting for the sighting of the Dhul-Hijjah moon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":109256,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,2],"tags":[9539],"class_list":["post-109298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-pakistan","tag-eid-ul-adha"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109298"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109299,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109298\/revisions\/109299"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}