Prayer and breaking hours of fasting punctuate the days of Muslims believers during the month of Ramadan. This year, the Ramadan 2025 calendar is quite mild.
Ramadan must start this Saturday, March 1 in France on Saturday, according to astronomical calculations which established that the new moon will be observable this Friday, February 28 in the sky. The great mosque of Paris must confirm this date at the end of the night of doubt, this same day.
During this important month for Muslims, the prohibitions are numerous, starting with that of not eating and not drinking during the day. Regarding prayers, it is the sun cycles that dictate the hours to be observed during Ramadan. Muslims who follow traditions must therefore wake up early for the fajr, stop for the Dhuhr at noon, again for the ASR in the afternoon, before celebrating the Iftar after sunset and prayer of Maghrib. The day often ends with the prayer of Isha and the Tarawih. This year 2025, the Ramadan calendar is quite mild: since it intervenes in winter, the daily duration of fasting is shorter!
During Ramadan, the prayer of the fajr corresponds to the start of the fast, and the Maghrib at the end of it, which is called Iftar. It is important to remember that the prayers’ hours vary both from one day to another but also from one city to another. There can sometimes be an hour of gap between eastern France and the west of the country, where the sun sets later.
Ramadan is often associated with the fast, which the practicing Muslims, but prayers are all as important as food deprivation. The five prayers are among the five pillars of Islam, in the same way as the fast of the month of Ramadan or the pilgrimage to Mecca. Moreover, the prayers correspond, a few minutes away, at the start and end of the fast: the IMSAK and the Iftar.
IMSAK time to start fasting
Muslims who practice Ramadan fasting can eat in the early morning but must stop drinking and eating at IMSAK time that marks the start of daily fasting. The IMSAK shifts a few minutes every day depending on the sunrise, but still occurs 10 minutes before “fajr” time, the first prayer of the day.
IFTAR time and breaking the fast
The prayer of “Maghreb” is also particularly scrutinized. It corresponds to the moment when the sun sets and therefore sounds the time of the Iftar, this moment when believers can start eating again each evening during the month of Ramadan. The meal must remain light, as a result of the meal taken in the morning before starting the fast again. It is a dinner that marks the end of a day of physical and mental asceticism.
What is the Ramadan 2025 calendar with prayer times?
All the prayers of the day of Ramadan follow the movement of the sun, since the time of the fast is determined by the lifting of the day and the fall of the night. Muslims, according to Ramadan’s injunctions, must have on hand a specific calendar of hours of prayer, since the schedules change every day, due to the extension of the duration of the day until summer solstice.
Here are the prayer times that prevail for the month of Ramadan, for the city of Paris. Note that the prayer times and those of different fasting depending on the geographic location of believers: between Marseille, Paris and Bordeaux since dawn and sunset do not intervene at the same time.
| DAY | Fajr | Dohr | Switch | Maghreb | Ichaa |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saturday March 01, 2025 | 06:06 | 13:03 | 15:59 | 18:37 | 20:01 |
| Sunday March 02, 2025 | 06:04 | 13:03 | 16:00 | 18:39 | 20:02 |
| Monday March 03, 2025 | 06:02 | 13:03 | 16:02 | 18:41 | 20:04 |
| Tuesday March 04, 2025 | 06:00 | 13:02 | 16:03 | 18:42 | 20:06 |
| Wednesday 05 March 2025 | 05:58 | 13:02 | 16:04 | 18:44 | 20:07 |
| Thursday March 06, 2025 | 05:56 | 13:02 | 16:05 | 18:45 | 20:09 |
| Friday March 07, 2025 | 05:54 | 13:02 | 16:06 | 18:47 | 20:10 |
| Saturday March 08, 2025 | 05:52 | 13:01 | 16:07 | 18:48 | 20:12 |
| Sunday March 09, 2025 | 05:50 | 13:01 | 16:08 | 18:50 | 20:13 |
| Monday March 10, 2025 | 05:48 | 13:01 | 16:09 | 18:51 | 20:15 |
| Tuesday March 11, 2025 | 05:46 | 13:01 | 16:10 | 18:53 | 20:17 |
| Wednesday March 12, 2025 | 05:43 | 13:00 | 16:11 | 18:55 | 20:18 |
| Thursday March 13, 2025 | 05:41 | 13:00 | 16:12 | 18:56 | 20:20 |
| Friday March 14, 2025 | 05:39 | 13:00 | 16:13 | 18:58 | 20:21 |
| Saturday March 15, 2025 | 05:37 | 13:00 | 16:14 | 18:59 | 20:23 |
| Sunday March 16, 2025 | 05:35 | 12:59 | 16:15 | 19:01 | 20:25 |
| Monday March 17, 2025 | 05:33 | 12:59 | 16:16 | 19:02 | 20:26 |
| Tuesday March 18, 2025 | 05:30 | 12:59 | 16:17 | 19:04 | 20:28 |
| Wednesday March 19, 2025 | 05:28 | 12:58 | 16:18 | 19:05 | 20:30 |
| Thursday March 20, 2025 | 05:26 | 12:58 | 16:18 | 19:07 | 20:31 |
| Friday March 21, 2025 | 05:24 | 12:58 | 16:19 | 19:08 | 20:33 |
| Saturday March 22, 2025 | 05:21 | 12:57 | 16:20 | 19:10 | 20:35 |
| Sunday March 23, 2025 | 05:19 | 12:57 | 16:21 | 19:11 | 20:36 |
| Monday March 24, 2025 | 05:17 | 12:57 | 16:22 | 19:13 | 20:38 |
| Tuesday March 25, 2025 | 05:14 | 12:57 | 16:23 | 19:14 | 20:40 |
| Wednesday March 26, 2025 | 05:12 | 12:56 | 16:24 | 19:16 | 20:42 |
| Thursday March 27, 2025 | 05:10 | 12:56 | 16:24 | 19:17 | 20:43 |
| Friday March 28, 2025 | 05:07 | 12:56 | 16:25 | 19:19 | 20:45 |
| Saturday March 29, 2025 | 05:05 | 12:55 | 16:26 | 19:20 | 20:47 |
| Sunday March 30, 2025 | 06:03 | 13:55 | 17:27 | 20:22 | 21:49 |
What are the prayers that punctuate the Ramadan days?
Prayers are all important during the month of Muslim fasting. Believers are indeed engaged to parentheses of introspection, reflection and meditation on their situation as well as relations with others.
Praying several times during the day is one of the Ramadan moral injunctions. And these prayers really punctuate the day:
- Fajr (or fejr) : the prayer of the dawn. This is the first compulsory prayer of the day. It marks the start of the prohibition to drink and eat, which will last all day. It takes place after the IMSAK, a period during which the believer can still eat and the suhûr, “dawn meal”.
- Dohr (or Dhuhr) : Prayer of the early afternoon.
- Switch : Prayer at the end of afternoon.
- Maghreb : Prayer to practice at the time of sunset.
- Ichaa : the prayer that must be accomplished before midnight
The Chourouk (or Chourouq) takes place approximately 1:30 after the Fajr prayer. This is an important moment which does not correspond to a prayer but at the time at which the prayer of the fajr had to be carried out. This is an important injunction for Ramadan to be followed and respected as it should be.