{"id":35296,"date":"2025-06-09T11:36:51","date_gmt":"2025-06-09T11:36:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/platinumlist.ceo\/guide\/?p=35296"},"modified":"2025-06-09T11:36:51","modified_gmt":"2025-06-09T11:36:51","slug":"saudi-arabia-releases-hajj-calendar-until-2050-no-summer-pilgrimage-for-next-25-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/platinumlist.ceo\/guide\/saudi-arabia-releases-hajj-calendar-until-2050-no-summer-pilgrimage-for-next-25-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Saudi Arabia Releases Hajj Calendar Until 2050: No Summer Pilgrimage For Next 25 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saudi Arabia\u2019s National Centre for Meteorology (NCM) has announced that <strong>Hajj will no longer fall during the summer months<\/strong> until the year 2050. According to a newly published 25-year Hajj calendar, starting in 2026, the <strong>Islamic pilgrimage will gradually move into spring, followed by winter and autumn seasons<\/strong> \u2014 offering milder weather for millions of pilgrims.<\/p>\n<p>The shift is due to the nature of the Hijri calendar, which is about 11 days shorter than the Gregorian calendar. This causes <strong>Islamic dates to move earlier each year<\/strong>, resulting in Hajj aligning with different seasons over time.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-31361\" src=\"https:\/\/platinumlist.ceo\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/shutterstock_567162460.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/platinumlist.ceo\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/shutterstock_567162460.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/platinumlist.ceo\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/shutterstock_567162460-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/platinumlist.ceo\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/shutterstock_567162460-768x384.jpg 768w, https:\/\/platinumlist.ceo\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/shutterstock_567162460-150x75.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Here\u2019s how the seasons will look for Hajj through 2050<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>2026\u20132033<\/strong>: Spring (May to March)<\/li>\n<li><strong>2034\u20132041<\/strong>: Winter (February to December)<\/li>\n<li><strong>2042\u20132049<\/strong>: Autumn (November to September)<\/li>\n<li><strong>2050<\/strong>: Summer (August)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The NCM says this change should bring <strong>relief to elderly pilgrims and those with health conditions<\/strong>, while also supporting <strong>better crowd control, logistics, and safety planning<\/strong> in the coming decades. This year marks the last time in the near future that Hajj will coincide with summer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saudi Arabia\u2019s National Centre for Meteorology (NCM) has announced that Hajj will no longer fall during the summer months until the year 2050. According to a newly published 25-year Hajj calendar, starting in 2026, the Islamic pilgrimage will gradually move into spring, followed by winter and autumn seasons \u2014 offering milder weather for millions of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":31362,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-35296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"tags":[{"id":15448,"slug":"news","link":"https:\/\/platinumlist.ceo\/guide\/news\/","title":{"rendered":"Latest News"}}],"countries":[{"id":15507,"slug":"ksa","link":"https:\/\/platinumlist.ceo\/guide\/ksa\/","api_id":215,"title":{"rendered":"Saudi Arabia"}}],"cities":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/platinumlist.ceo\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/platinumlist.ceo\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/platinumlist.ceo\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platinumlist.ceo\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platinumlist.ceo\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/platinumlist.ceo\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35296\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platinumlist.ceo\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/platinumlist.ceo\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}