# It's Ramadan. What do Muslims at extreme latitudes do? **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-ramadan-what-do-muslims-at-extreme-latitudes-do/756870 **Category:** Factual Questions **Created:** [June 8, 2016, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-ramadan-what-do-muslims-at-extreme-latitudes-do/756870 "2016-06-08T22:31:34Z") **Posts on this page:** 5 **Page:** 1
### Author: ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven) #### Post date: [June 8, 2016, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-ramadan-what-do-muslims-at-extreme-latitudes-do/756870/1 "2016-06-08T22:31:34Z")
Right now, there are parts of the world where the sun does not set, or does not rise. How do Muslims in those regions observe Ramadan? (Yeah, I know, I could probably get the answer from Google, but I figured if there’s any place where I could get a straight answer, it’s here.) ---
### Author: ![glowacks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/glowacks/32/5548_2.png) [@glowacks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glowacks) #### Post date: [June 8, 2016, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-ramadan-what-do-muslims-at-extreme-latitudes-do/756870/2 "2016-06-08T22:43:43Z")
I can offer a [previous thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=696752) on this subject. ---
### Author: ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven) #### Post date: [June 8, 2016, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-ramadan-what-do-muslims-at-extreme-latitudes-do/756870/3 "2016-06-08T23:38:10Z")
TYVM! I do know that people are exempt from fasting if doing so will endanger their health. ---
### Author: ![watchwolf49](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e9c0ed/32.png) [@watchwolf49](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/watchwolf49) #### Post date: [June 8, 2016, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-ramadan-what-do-muslims-at-extreme-latitudes-do/756870/4 "2016-06-08T23:40:37Z")
… freeze? ---
### Author: ![Steken](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e274bd/32.png) [@Steken](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steken) #### Post date: [June 9, 2016, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-ramadan-what-do-muslims-at-extreme-latitudes-do/756870/5 "2016-06-09T06:03:20Z")
A relative of mine, who lives in a Scandinavian country, converted to Islam a few years back. During Ramadan, he follows Meccan time rather than local time, i.e. regarding sunrise and sunset. He told me this practice is considered perfectly A-OK by some major theologian at Cairo’s Al-Azhar University, which he (along with most of the Sunni world) considers a trustworthy authority.