Quran Reading Plan: Free 30-Day and One-Year Schedules

The Quran in the standard Madinah print has 604 pages in 30 juz. To finish it in 30 days, read one juz a day, about 20 pages, which is four pages after each of the five daily prayers. To finish in a year, read under two pages a day. If you are still learning to read Arabic, plan by minutes rather than pages.

All three schedules are below with the verse each day starts on, and the whole thing prints as a free two-page PDF. No email address, no account.

Choose the plan that fits the reader

Pick by who is reading in your house this month and how fluently they read today. Most families who start on a juz a day and stop do so in the second week, and a smaller plan they kept would have got them further.

Two pages a day finishes the Quran in about ten months, which leaves two spare months for days you miss. If you have tried the 30-day plan before and stopped, start here.

Steady pages suits a child reading slowly but reading, or an adult rebuilding fluency. Listen and follow is for a child who cannot read Arabic yet, or anyone starting from nothing. Neither finishes the Quran this month. A child who reads for ten minutes thirty days in a row usually keeps reading after the month ends. A child pushed through a juz a day who gives up on day nine often does not want to try again.

The 30-day plan, juz by juz

Each day starts where the last one stopped. Page numbers are for the 15-line Madinah mushaf, the one Quran.com and most apps show; other prints number pages differently, but the juz and the verse each one starts on are the same.

Three checkpoints tell you whether you are on track: by the end of day 10 you have read to page 200, by the end of day 20 to page 401, and day 30 is the last 23 pages, from An-Naba to An-Nas.

How to read 20 pages a day

Twenty pages in one sitting is a long sitting. Split it across the five prayers and each part is about four pages, five to ten minutes of reading, small enough to fit around work and school:

If five sittings will not happen, two will: ten pages after Fajr and ten after Isha. Tie each sitting to something that already happens every day, like a prayer or a meal. Reading “whenever there is a gap” tends to stop on the first busy day.

The one-year plan, month by month

About 50 pages a month, which is under two pages a day. Start in any month you like: write the month’s name in the first column, and if you finish a month early, start the next one early rather than resting.

The rule for the days you miss

You will miss days. Most printed plans say nothing about it, so when it happens the family falls behind, the sheet stops being filled in, and nobody mentions it again.

Do not double up. If you miss day seven, read juz 8 on day eight as planned. On the 30-day plan the missed juz goes to the end, so the plan runs a day over; on the one-year plan the spare two months cover it. Reading forty pages to catch up makes the next day feel heavy too, and in our experience families who try to catch up are the ones who stop around day fourteen.

If you fall three or more days behind on the 30-day plan, switch to the 60-day plan for the rest of it. You will still finish the Quran, a month later, and the daily habit stays intact.

Running a plan when you do not read Arabic yourself

Most of the families we work with have nobody at home who reads Arabic, and the tracker is built so that a parent in that position can still run it. Your job is to keep the time slot and to notice three things that need no Arabic at all. Correcting the recitation is a teacher’s job, and it is what our online Quran classes for kids are for.

Did it happen at the same time? The strongest predictor of a plan reaching day thirty is a fixed anchor, usually straight after Maghrib or straight after Isha.

Did it get easier? Listen to the same passage two weeks apart. It should sound smoother, with fewer stops and restarts, even if it is no faster. If day twenty sounds as hard as day six, make the portion smaller.

Did somebody hear it? The tracker asks for initials rather than a tick for a reason. Reading aloud to nobody drifts, and a child who knows an adult will be in the room reads differently from one who does not. The longer version of what to listen for is in checking your child’s Quran progress when you do not read Arabic.

Using it in Ramadan

The 30-day plan is the classic Ramadan khatmah: one juz a night ends the Quran with the month. The tracker numbers its days rather than dating them, because the lunar month moves about eleven days earlier each year and starts on a local sighting, so a dated sheet is wrong most years. Write the date in on day one.

Ramadan is also the month a household has the least spare capacity: broken sleep, full evenings, tired children whose tiredness looks like reluctance. Choose a plan that fits that month, and do not add lessons during it. We sell tutoring, so we would happily book them, but lessons work far better in the ordinary months either side. Our Ramadan Quran reading plan for a house where no one reads Arabic walks through what the month does to each kind of reader and what an ordinary weeknight looks like; read it in the week before Ramadan.

For memorisation rather than reading, use the Quran revision planner. Ramadan is famously good at eroding what a child has memorised while everyone concentrates on reading.

For an adult doing this for themselves

The plans are the same. Adults often pick the 30-day plan because they feel they should, then drop it around day five. Look at your busiest day of the month and pick the plan you could still manage on it.

If reading Arabic at all is the obstacle rather than the pace, that is a different project, and it starts with the letters and the vowel marks, not with a juz a day. We wrote about learning to read the Quran as an adult separately; a teacher speeds that part up more than any schedule does, which is what our online Quran classes are for.

Questions about Quran reading plans

How do I finish reading the Quran in 30 days?

Read one juz a day, about 20 pages of the Madinah mushaf, and the Quran is finished on day 30. The easiest way to fit it in is four pages after each of the five daily prayers. If you miss a day, move that juz to the end rather than doubling up.

How long does it take to read one juz?

For a fluent reader at a steady pace, about 30 to 45 minutes. Reading slowly with careful tajweed takes longer, and someone still sounding out words can take well over an hour, which is why a learner should plan by minutes rather than by juz.

In what order should you read the Quran?

A complete reading, a khatmah, goes in the order of the mushaf, from Al-Fatihah to An-Nas, and every plan on this page follows it. A beginner learning to read often starts at the other end, with the short surahs of juz 30, because they are short enough to read well. Both are fine: the first is for finishing the Quran, the second for learning to read it.

How do I read the Quran step by step as a beginner?

Learn the letters and their sounds, then the vowel marks, then joining letters into words, usually with a primer such as the Noorani Qaida. Then read short surahs from juz 30 aloud to someone who can correct you, and only then move to a page-count plan. Our Quran classes for beginners take that path with a teacher.

Do I have to finish the whole Quran in Ramadan?

No. Completing it once in the month is a widely loved practice, not an obligation. For many households it is the wrong target, because it turns a good month into a failed one by the second week. Choose a plan the household can keep, and ask your imam about the practice itself.

What if we start late?

Start at day one on the day you start. The tracker counts thirty days in a row, not thirty dates, so a family beginning on the fourth night of Ramadan finishes four days into Shawwal, which is a good outcome and better than writing the month off.

Can I print this for a class or a weekend school?

Yes, print as many copies as you like. There is no email wall and nothing to sign. For a class, the tracker works as one sheet on the wall with a row per child.

Print the tracker

Print one per reader, write the plan at the top, and pin it where the family walks past every day, such as the fridge door. Then decide tonight when the reading happens: after which prayer, or before which meal. Families who settle that on the first night are the ones still filling in the boxes on day twenty.