{"id":14969,"date":"2026-03-26T16:10:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T16:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/saudi-arabia-confirms-eid-al-fitr-on-march-20-2026\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T16:10:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T16:10:07","slug":"saudi-arabia-confirms-eid-al-fitr-on-march-20-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/saudi-arabia-confirms-eid-al-fitr-on-march-20-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Saudi Arabia Confirms Eid Al-Fitr on March 20, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>RIYADH, March 18, 2026<\/strong> \u2014 Saudi Arabia has officially confirmed that <strong>Eid Al-Fitr 1447 AH will be observed on Friday, March 20, 2026<\/strong>, after the Shawwal crescent moon was not sighted on Wednesday evening.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, the holy month of Ramadan will last <strong>30 days<\/strong> across the Kingdom.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Shawwal Crescent Not Sighted<\/h2>\n<p>The Saudi Supreme Court announced that no confirmed sightings of the Shawwal crescent were reported on Wednesday, March 18, corresponding to the 29th of Ramadan.<\/p>\n<p>Following standard procedure, the Court had earlier urged residents to observe the crescent and report verified sightings&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/saudiscoop.com\/lifestyle\/saudi-arabia-eid-al-fitr-2026-march-20\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RIYADH, March 18, 2026 \u2014 Saudi Arabia has officially confirmed that Eid Al-Fitr 1447&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[22,1194],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lifestyle","category-1194"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14969\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}