This is the time of fasting worldwide for this year

Tuesday, April 13th symbolizes the beginning of the holy month of Ramadan for this year.

The sunrise until its setting takes between 10 and 21 hours depending on where you are in the world, Aljazeera writes.

The sacred month of Ramadan starts 10 to 12 days early each year. This is because the Islamic calendar is based on the lunar calendar “Hisgiri” for months that are between 29 and 30 days long.

Next time Ramadan begins around 13 April will be about 33 years from now, 2054 respectively.

The number of fasting hours varies from country to country. Muslims living in the southernmost countries of the world, such as Chile or New Zealand, will fast an average of 11 hours, while those living in northern countries like Iceland or Norway will fast for more than 18 hours.

For Muslims living in the Northern Hemisphere, the number of fasting hours will be slightly shorter this year and will continue to decline until 2032, which is the year Ramadan will fall during the winter solstice 50th of the year.

After that, fasting hours will grow to the summer solstice the longest day of the northern year. The opposite will happen to Muslims living south of the equator.

Below is the number of fasting hours in cities around the world. The current hours and times of fasting will vary from day to day as well as the methods of reckoning:

In far northern cities such as Longyearbyen in Norway, where the sun does not set between April 20th and August 22nd, religious decisions, or fetva, have been issued to pursue time in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, or the nearest Muslim country.