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Why does Ramadan fall at a different time each year?

The Islamic calendar is lunar, so Ramadan arrives roughly ten to eleven days earlier each Gregorian year and moves steadily through the seasons. That drift changes its commercial effect: falling in the winter peak it reshapes your strongest months, falling in summer it overlaps the trough. A seasonality map therefore has to be redrawn every year, not copied from the last one.

From Ramadan and the Seasonality Map: Revenue Planning for GCC Restaurants — the full reading, with the method behind this answer.

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