How Many Pages a Day to Finish the Quran? A Guide for Any Timeline

The short answer: the standard Madinah mushaf has 604 pages, so divide 604 by the number of days you have and round up. To finish in 30 days you need about 21 pages a day, which is roughly one juz. To finish in a year you need just 2 pages a day.

The table below does the arithmetic for the most common timelines, and the rest of this guide helps you choose one you can actually keep.

Pages a day for any timeline

Two notes on the numbers:

• They are rounded up, so you finish on time even when the division isn’t exact. If you plan 30 days at 21 pages a day, you will have read everything by day 29 with a little to spare. Some days you can stop a page early; the reading planner spreads the pages evenly for you.
• Reading time is an estimate. Two minutes a page is a comfortable pace for many readers. Fluent readers who read only the Arabic are often faster; people reading slowly with tajweed, or reading the translation too, take longer. Time yourself over three pages to find your own pace.

How the arithmetic works

The calculation is simple enough to do in your head:

1. Count the pages you have left. From the beginning, that’s all 604. From page 302 (the middle), it’s 303.
2. Count the days you have.
3. Divide, and round up.

If you are part-way through, start from where you are rather than from page one. Halfway through the Quran with 30 days left, you need only about 11 pages a day.

What about a juz? The Quran is divided into 30 juz of roughly 20 pages each. In the Madinah mushaf the first juz has 21 pages and the last has 23, and a few begin part-way down a page, so “one juz a day” and “20 pages a day” are close but not identical. Either will finish the Quran in about a month.

Using a different mushaf? Printings vary. South Asian editions with 13 or 15 lines a page have a different page count, so if you read on paper, check the last page number of your own copy, or plan by juz instead, which is the same in every edition.

Splitting your pages across the day

Large daily goals feel lighter when they are split across the five prayers. Twenty pages becomes four pages after each prayer, about eight minutes each time.

Daily goal	After each prayer	About how long each time
5 pages	1 page	2 minutes
10 pages	2 pages	4 minutes
15 pages	3 pages	6 minutes
20 pages	4 pages	8 minutes
21 pages	4 pages (5 after Fajr)	8–10 minutes

Short, regular sittings are often easier to protect than one long session, and you are less likely to lose a whole day’s reading to one busy evening.

How fast is too fast?

Faster is not automatically better. When Abdullah ibn Amr told the Prophet ﷺ that he wanted to read more, he was first advised to complete the Quran in a month, and only after he insisted that he could do more was he told seven days, and not less than that:

Another narration of the same companion explains the concern behind the limit:

Scholars have long discussed how these narrations apply to different people and seasons, and some of the early Muslims are reported to have read much faster in Ramadan. For most of us, though, the lesson is simple: choose a pace that leaves room to read with attention.

Choosing your timeline

Rather than starting from a target date, start from the time you really have each day:

• 2–4 minutes a day (1–2 pages): you will finish in between ten and twenty months. A wonderful habit to start with.
• 10 minutes a day (5 pages): about four months.
• 20 minutes a day (10 pages): about two months.
• 40 minutes a day (20–21 pages): about a month, the classic Ramadan pace.

Then add a few spare days. Life will give you days when you can’t read, and a plan with room to breathe survives them.

In short

Divide 604 pages by your days and round up: 21 a day for a month, 11 for two months, 7 for three, 2 for a year. Split big goals across the prayers, leave a few spare days, and choose a pace that lets you read with understanding. The best plan is the one you are still following on day thirty.