{"id":112268,"date":"2026-05-12T13:01:44","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T08:01:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=112268"},"modified":"2026-05-12T13:01:44","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T08:01:44","slug":"eid-ul-adha-likely-to-be-on-wednesday-may-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/eid-ul-adha-likely-to-be-on-wednesday-may-27\/","title":{"rendered":"Eid-ul-Adha likely to be on Wednesday, May 27"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: SPARCO has issued an astronomical forecast regarding the expected sighting of the moon of <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/eid-ul-adha-likely-on-may-27-five-day-holidays-expected\/\">Dhul-Hijjah 1447 AH<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>According to a spokesperson for SPARCO, the new moon is likely to be seen at 1:15 am on May 17, while the age of the moon is expected to be about 18 hours and 30 minutes by evening on the same day. There will be a gap of about sixty minutes between sunset and moonset in coastal areas, due to which there is a good chance of seeing the moon in clear weather and good visibility.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for SPARCO says that if the chances of sighting remain the same, then the first Dhul-Hijjah is likely to be on Monday, May 18 and the 10th Dhul-Hijjah, i.e. Eid-ul-Adha, is likely to be on Wednesday, May 27.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for Suparco has clarified that the final announcement regarding the sighting of the Zil-Hijjah moon will be made by the Central Ruet-e-Hilal Committee, which will give its decision based on reliable evidence received from across the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: SPARCO has issued an astronomical forecast regarding the expected sighting of the moon of Dhul-Hijjah 1447 AH. According to a spokesperson for SPARCO, the new moon is likely to be seen at 1:15 am on May 17, while the age of the moon is expected to be about 18 hours and 30 minutes by [&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-112268","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\/112268","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=112268"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":112270,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112268\/revisions\/112270"}],"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=112268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}