How Many Pages of Quran Per Day? Khatam Planner & Chart
Work out exactly how much to read each day to complete the Quran by any date — in 30 days, over Ramadan, or across a whole year.
The short answer: the standard Madani mushaf has 604 pages. To finish it in 30 days, read about 21 pages a day.
The simplest way to hit that is 4 pages after each of the five daily prayers. That is 20 pages a day without ever sitting down for a long session — and it completes a khatam in a month.
How long is the Quran?
Every calculation on this page uses the 604-page Madani mushaf, the layout used in the vast majority of printed copies and in most Quran apps. Each juz works out to roughly 20 pages, which is why one juz a day completes the Quran in a month. Some printings — IndoPak mushafs in particular — paginate differently, so check the last page of your own copy before planning around a page count.
Pages per day for any target
Divide 604 by the number of days you have. The chart below has done it for you, rounded up so you always finish on time rather than a day late.
| Finish in | Pages per day | Juz per day | What it feels like |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 days | 87 | 4⅓ | Very demanding — usually only in the last ten nights |
| 10 days | 61 | 3 | Three juz a day; a common pace in the last third of Ramadan |
| 15 days | 41 | 2 | Two juz a day — completes twice in a month |
| 20 days | 31 | 1½ | A juz and a half daily |
| 30 days | 21 | 1 | The classic khatam — one juz a day, ~4 pages after each prayer |
| 40 days | 16 | ¾ | Comfortable for most people alongside work or study |
| 60 days | 11 | ½ | Half a juz daily — around 2 pages after each prayer |
| 90 days | 7 | ⅓ | Sustainable long-term; six khatams a year |
| 120 days | 6 | ¼ | Three khatams a year |
| 180 days | 4 | — | Twice a year, about ten minutes a day |
| 365 days | 2 | — | One khatam a year — the gentlest steady habit |
To work out any other target yourself: 604 ÷ number of days = pages per day, rounded up.
The five-prayer method
Most people who fail a reading plan fail it because they never find a free half-hour. The way around that is to stop looking for one. Attach your reading to something already fixed in your day — the five daily prayers — and read a few pages while you are still on the prayer mat.
| Pages after each prayer | Pages per day | Quran completed in |
|---|---|---|
| 2 pages | 10 | About 2 months |
| 3 pages | 15 | About 6 weeks |
| 4 pages | 20 | About 1 month — a khatam in Ramadan |
| 5 pages | 25 | About 25 days |
| 8 pages | 40 | About 15 days |
| 1 juz (~20 pages) | 100 | About 6 days |
Four pages takes most readers five to ten minutes. Five sittings of that, and the Quran is finished in a month without a single dedicated study session.
Finishing the Quran in Ramadan
Ramadan is when most people attempt a khatam, and there is one detail worth planning around.
Plan for 29 days, not 30
Ramadan is either 29 or 30 days, and which one it is only becomes clear when the moon is sighted at the end of the month. If you pace yourself at exactly 604 ÷ 30 and the month turns out to be 29 days, you finish a day short.
Pace at 604 ÷ 29 ≈ 21 pages a day instead. If the month runs 30 days you finish a day early, which is the better way to be wrong.
One juz a night in Tarawih
In many masajid the imam recites approximately one juz each night of Tarawih, completing the Quran across the month. If you attend regularly you are already hearing a full khatam — reading your own alongside it is a second one, not a duplicate of the same effort.
The last ten nights
Many increase their pace in the final third seeking Laylatul Qadr. Going from one juz a day to three over the last ten nights adds a second complete khatam to the month. See our Ramadan guide and Ramadan prayer times for the wider schedule.
How long does it actually take?
At an unhurried tartil pace, most readers take somewhere between two and two and a half minutes per page. That puts a complete reading of the Quran at roughly 20 to 25 hours in total.
| Plan | Pages per day | Estimated time per day |
|---|---|---|
| 30 days | 21 | About 40–50 minutes |
| 60 days | 11 | About 20–30 minutes |
| 90 days | 7 | About 15 minutes |
| 365 days | 2 | About 5 minutes |
These are estimates, and personal pace varies a great deal. Readers fluent in Arabic are often considerably faster; those still building fluency, or stopping to read a translation and tafsir alongside, will be slower — and there is nothing wrong with being slower.
Five things that make a plan stick
1. Pick a pace you can keep on a bad day
Plans are usually set on a day when motivation is high and abandoned on a day when it is not. Choose the pace you could manage while tired, busy and unwell — that is the pace that will actually finish.
2. Anchor it to the prayers
A few pages after each fard prayer needs no willpower and no scheduling, because the trigger is already in your day. This is why the five-prayer method works better than a nightly half-hour that keeps getting postponed.
3. Read the same physical layout every time
Sticking to one mushaf layout means the page breaks stay in the same place, and your sense of progress becomes visual and reliable. Switching between prints mid-plan makes your page count meaningless.
4. Do not repay a missed day all at once
Missing one day on a 30-day plan means spreading roughly 21 pages over the remaining days — under a page a day extra. Trying to read 42 pages in one sitting to "catch up" is how plans collapse entirely.
5. Read slowly enough to understand it
The Quran instructs measured, unhurried recitation (Surah al-Muzzammil, 73:4). A khatam completed in 90 days with attention and reflection is worth more than one rushed in 30. If the pace is costing you your pronunciation or your presence of mind, take the longer plan.
Track it automatically in Tawhid
Doing the arithmetic once is easy. Keeping track of where you are 19 days later, after two missed days and a long one, is the part that people give up on.
The Khatam Planner in the Tawhid app handles it: choose 30, 60 or 90 days — or set your own target date — and it works out your daily page count. Pages you read in the app are counted automatically, and if you fall behind it redistributes what is left across the days remaining rather than piling it onto tomorrow.
Also in the app's Quran section:
- Memorize Quran — select any range of ayat, set a repeat count and a pause between verses, and slow the recitation to 0.5× while you commit it to memory.
- Tafseer — read a verse alongside its commentary, and open two tafsir works side by side to compare them.
- Four Arabic scripts — Uthmani, IndoPak, DigitalKhatt and a clean simplified script, so you can read in whichever one you learned with.
- Translations and recitations — over 50 languages and a wide range of reciters, all available offline.
Every source used for the Quran text, translations, tafsir and recitations is named on our Content Sources & Credits page.
Common questions
How many pages are in the Quran?
The standard Madani mushaf has 604 pages. This is the most widely printed layout, where every juz is about 20 pages and each page ends on a complete verse. Other printings — particularly IndoPak mushafs — use different page counts, so check your own copy before planning around a number.
How many pages of Quran should I read per day to finish in 30 days?
About 21 pages a day. 604 pages divided by 30 days is 20.1, so 21 pages a day finishes with a little room to spare. The easiest way to reach that is roughly 4 pages after each of the five daily prayers, which comes to 20 pages without setting aside a separate block of time.
How many pages a day to finish the Quran in Ramadan?
Plan for 21 pages a day rather than 20. Ramadan can be 29 or 30 days, and you only know which once the moon is sighted. Pacing at 604 ÷ 29 — about 21 pages — means you complete the khatam even if the month is short.
How long does it take to read the whole Quran?
Roughly 20 to 25 hours of reading in total at an unhurried tartil pace, based on about two to two and a half minutes per page. Spread across 30 days that is about 40 to 50 minutes a day. Readers fluent in Arabic are often faster, and those still building fluency slower.
How many juz are in the Quran?
There are 30 juz, or ajza. Each is roughly 20 pages of the Madani mushaf. This is why one juz a day completes the Quran in a month, and it is the pace most imams follow when reciting through the Quran in Tarawih during Ramadan.
How many verses are in the Quran?
There are 6,236 verses in the Hafs an Asim reading, which is the count used in the standard Madani mushaf, across 114 surahs. A small number of other recognised counting conventions differ slightly, mainly over whether the Bismillah is numbered as a verse.
Is it better to read more pages or to read slowly?
Slowly. The Quran itself instructs measured, unhurried recitation in Surah al-Muzzammil 73:4, and a khatam rushed at the cost of pronunciation and reflection misses the point. If you cannot keep a pace with care, choose a longer plan — sixty or ninety days completed properly is better than thirty days rushed.
What if I miss a day?
Spread the shortfall over the days that remain instead of trying to repay it all at once. Missing one day on a 30-day plan adds well under a page per day to the rest of the month. A planner that recalculates from your actual progress handles this for you, which is what the Khatam Planner in Tawhid does.