Enter the fasts you missed and why, and this works out which ones you make up, which ones are compensated by feeding a poor person, and whether kaffarah is involved at all. Every figure is arithmetic on what you type, calculated in your browser and saved only on this device.
Fasts missed because of menstruation or postnatal bleeding ARE made up. This is the opposite of prayer, where those days are not made up at all, and people get the two backwards constantly. All four schools agree on it. Enter those days below and they will be counted as qada.
Kaffarah is not a payment. The classical expiation is, in order: freeing a slave, and failing that fasting sixty consecutive days, and failing that feeding sixty poor people. The order is binding — money is the third option, reached only by someone genuinely unable to fast, not a fee to skip the fasting. This tool will not reduce it to a single figure.
No exchange rates and no food prices are fetched. None is configured for this site, and an invented rate would silently produce a wrong obligation — which is worse than asking you to look it up. You enter the local cost of one average meal and pick the currency yourself; everything else is multiplication.
If your case is unusual — a chronic condition whose outlook is uncertain, fasts owed from many years ago, or a fast broken in circumstances you are unsure how to describe — ask a qualified scholar. Nothing on this page is a ruling.
Count days, not Ramadans. The reason decides the outcome, so put each day under the reason that actually applied to it.
An illness you recovered from. Made up later, day for day.
A journey long enough to permit breaking the fast. Made up later.
The schools differ here. Choose how to treat these days below.
Always made up. Unlike prayer, these fasts are owed.
No realistic prospect of fasting again. Fidya, not qada.
A fast of Ramadan broken on purpose, without an excuse.
This is the most genuinely disputed case on the page, and no school is being adjudicated here. Pick the treatment you follow and the totals will follow it.
Hanafi: she makes up the days, like anyone with a temporary excuse. No fidya.
Shafi‘i and Hanbali: broadly, if she broke the fast fearing for the child alone she makes up the days and gives fidya as well; if she feared for herself, she makes them up only.
A minority position, reported from some of the Companions, treats her like the permanently unable: fidya and no making up. It is a real position with real followers, so it is offered — but it is the minority one.
Fidya is measured in food, so the figure depends entirely on what food costs where you live. Enter the cost of one average, filling meal in your city — what it would actually take to feed one person one meal — and pick your currency. Nothing is looked up.
Use the price of a modest local meal, not a restaurant bill.
Meals per missed day
The Qur’an (2:184) speaks of feeding a poor person for each day missed. The Shafi‘i, Maliki and Hanbali measure is one mudd of staple food per day, commonly reckoned as one meal. The Hanafi measure is half a sa‘ — the same as sadaqat al-fitr, commonly reckoned as two meals. Set this to match what you follow.
If someone had the health and the time to make up a missed fast, and let the next Ramadan arrive without doing it, the schools part company. The majority hold that a fidya is owed for each delayed day in addition to the fast itself. The Hanafi school holds that nothing extra is owed: make up the fast and that is the end of it.
Two a week is a pace most people keep. Mondays and Thursdays are a common choice.
Qada fasts do not have to be consecutive and do not have to be done in one stretch. Avoid the days on which fasting is forbidden — the two Eids and the days of tashriq that follow Eid al-Adha. Making them up sooner is better; the Qur’an (2:185) simply says an equal number of other days.
Kaffarah is expiation for deliberately violating a fast of Ramadan. It is separate from, and in addition to, making the day up. It is not triggered by forgetting, by illness, or by breaking a fast for a valid excuse.
How was the fast broken?
Hanafi view: kaffarah is triggered by deliberately eating or drinking as well as by intercourse. The Maliki position is close to this one.
Shafi‘i view: kaffarah is triggered only by intercourse. Deliberately eating or drinking is a serious sin requiring repentance and making the day up, but not the sixty-day expiation. The Hanbali position is close to this one.
Both views are shown below because the trigger was not specified. All schools agree that intercourse during a fast of Ramadan triggers kaffarah; they differ over eating and drinking.
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The default. If you missed a fast of Ramadan for a reason that has passed — illness you recovered from, a journey, menstruation, postnatal bleeding — you owe that day back, one for one, at some point before the next Ramadan. No money is involved. The Qur’an (2:185) says that whoever is ill or travelling fasts an equal number of other days.
The exception, for someone who cannot make the fast up at all: a chronic illness with no prospect of recovery, or old age that makes fasting genuinely unsafe. Instead of the day, a poor person is fed for that day. The Qur’an (2:184) mentions this ransom of feeding a poor person for those who can only fast with great hardship. Fidya replaces the fast — it is not a way of buying out of one you could keep.
Neither of the above. Kaffarah is the penalty for deliberately breaking a fast of Ramadan without an excuse, and it sits on top of making the day up. The expiation is ordered: free a slave; if not, fast sixty consecutive days; if not, feed sixty poor people. Because the first is no longer possible, the sixty consecutive fasts are what kaffarah means today for anyone healthy enough to keep them. Whether deliberate eating and drinking triggers it, or only intercourse, is the classic disagreement between the Hanafi and Shafi‘i schools.
Two verses carry most of this: al-Baqarah 2:184, which mentions feeding a poor person as a ransom for those who can fast only with severe hardship, and al-Baqarah 2:185, which tells the ill and the travelling to fast an equal number of other days. The kaffarah of sixty days comes from the sunnah, not from these verses.
A woman misses thirty fasts in one Ramadan: seven while menstruating, five with a flu she recovers from, and eighteen while pregnant. She recovers fully, so nothing here is permanent. Her local meal costs 3.00.
Qada: all thirty days are made up. The seven menstruation days are owed exactly like the rest — fasts are made up even though prayers are not. Fidya: on the Hanafi treatment, none at all; on the Shafi‘i treatment, if she broke the fast fearing for the child, the eighteen pregnancy days also carry fidya — 18 days × 1 meal × 3.00 = 54.00, alongside the thirty fasts.
Kaffarah: none. Nothing was broken deliberately. Every day here had a valid excuse, so no expiation is involved on any school’s reckoning.
Plan: fasting two days a week, thirty fasts take fifteen weeks — a little under four months, comfortably inside the year.
There is no single global figure, and any site quoting one is quoting its own country. Fidya is measured in food: enough to feed one poor person for each day missed. In Shafi‘i, Maliki and Hanbali reckoning that is one mudd of staple food per day, usually treated as one meal. In Hanafi reckoning it is half a sa‘ — the same measure as sadaqat al-fitr — usually treated as two meals or their value. Work out what a modest meal genuinely costs where you live and multiply. That is why this calculator asks you for the price instead of guessing it.
Freeing a slave, and if that is not possible fasting sixty consecutive days, and if that is not possible feeding sixty poor people — in that order. The order matters: the sixty fasts are not one choice among three but the option that binds anyone able to keep them, since the first is no longer available. If the sixty days are interrupted without a valid excuse, the count restarts. The day that was broken is also made up separately.
The schools differ, genuinely. The Hanafi position is that she makes up the days and owes nothing further. The Shafi‘i and Hanbali position, broadly, distinguishes the reason: fearing for the child alone means making up the days and giving fidya; fearing for herself means making them up only. A minority position reported from some Companions treats her like someone permanently unable to fast — fidya and no making up. Follow the school you follow, and ask a scholar if your situation is not a clean fit.
Not if you are able to fast them. Feeding sixty people is the third rung of an ordered expiation, not a menu option — it is reached only by someone genuinely unable to fast sixty consecutive days, through chronic illness or comparable inability. Someone healthy who would simply rather pay has not performed the kaffarah. This is the single most common misunderstanding about kaffarah, and it is why this page does not print a price next to it by default.
They are still owed, and they do not expire. Make up what you can, starting now, and be honest rather than exact where the count is genuinely unknown. What is disputed is whether the delay itself costs anything extra: the majority hold that letting a Ramadan pass without making up a fast you were able to make up adds a fidya for each such day, on top of the fast. The Hanafi school holds that no extra payment is owed — the fast is simply made up late. Neither view lets you off the fast.
Yes. All four schools agree, and this is the point most people get backwards. Prayers missed during menstruation are not made up at all; fasts missed during it are. The reasoning usually given is one of hardship — a month of prayers is a heavy and permanent burden, a handful of fasts once a year is not. Count those days as qada and make them up like any other.