The 30 Juz of the Quran: Where Each One Starts and What’s in It

The Quran is divided into 30 juz (parts), each about 20 pages of the 15-line Madani mushaf. Juz 1 starts at Al-Fatihah, juz 30 starts at An-Naba, and the other 28 begin wherever the next twentieth or so of the mushaf begins, often in the middle of a surah. Below is every juz: where it starts and ends, which surahs it holds, its pages and how long it takes to recite.

All 30 juz at a glance

Pages are for the 15-line Madani mushaf. Recitation time is for Mishary Alafasy at a steady pace; the full list below has quick and slow times too.

Juz	Starts	Ends	Pages	Time
1	Al-Fatihah 1:1	Al-Baqarah 2:141	1 to 21	52 min
2	Al-Baqarah 2:142	Al-Baqarah 2:252	22 to 41	50 min
3	Al-Baqarah 2:253	Ali ‘Imran 3:92	42 to 61	56 min
4	Ali ‘Imran 3:93	An-Nisa 4:23	62 to 81	58 min
5	An-Nisa 4:24	An-Nisa 4:147	82 to 101	54 min
6	An-Nisa 4:148	Al-Ma’idah 5:81	102 to 120	55 min
7	Al-Ma’idah 5:82	Al-An’am 6:110	121 to 141	64 min
8	Al-An’am 6:111	Al-A’raf 7:87	142 to 161	62 min
9	Al-A’raf 7:88	Al-Anfal 8:40	162 to 181	60 min
10	Al-Anfal 8:41	At-Tawbah 9:92	182 to 200	58 min
11	At-Tawbah 9:93	Hud 11:5	201 to 221	64 min
12	Hud 11:6	Yusuf 12:52	222 to 241	65 min
13	Yusuf 12:53	Ibrahim 14:52	242 to 261	61 min
14	Al-Hijr 15:1	An-Nahl 16:128	262 to 281	58 min
15	Al-Isra 17:1	Al-Kahf 18:74	282 to 301	57 min
16	Al-Kahf 18:75	Taha 20:135	302 to 321	58 min
17	Al-Anbiya 21:1	Al-Hajj 22:78	322 to 341	56 min
18	Al-Mu’minun 23:1	Al-Furqan 25:20	342 to 361	64 min
19	Al-Furqan 25:21	An-Naml 27:55	362 to 381	62 min
20	An-Naml 27:56	Al-‘Ankabut 29:45	382 to 401	60 min
21	Al-‘Ankabut 29:46	Al-Ahzab 33:30	402 to 421	56 min
22	Al-Ahzab 33:31	Ya-Sin 36:27	422 to 441	55 min
23	Ya-Sin 36:28	Az-Zumar 39:31	442 to 461	65 min
24	Az-Zumar 39:32	Fussilat 41:46	462 to 481	57 min
25	Fussilat 41:47	Al-Jathiyah 45:37	482 to 501	63 min
26	Al-Ahqaf 46:1	Adh-Dhariyat 51:30	502 to 521	62 min
27	Adh-Dhariyat 51:31	Al-Hadid 57:29	522 to 541	67 min
28	Al-Mujadila 58:1	At-Tahrim 66:12	542 to 561	57 min
29	Al-Mulk 67:1	Al-Mursalat 77:50	562 to 581	60 min
30	An-Naba 78:1	An-Nas 114:6	582 to 604	55 min

A few juz start in different places in some Indo-Pak mushafs, usually by an ayah or two. If your teacher’s mushaf disagrees with the table, follow your mushaf.

What’s in each juz

• Juz 1 (pages 1 to 21): Al-Fatihah, Al-Baqarah 1-141. 148 ayat across 2 surahs. About 52 minutes at a steady pace, 37 quickly and 82 slowly.
• Juz 2 (pages 22 to 41): Al-Baqarah 142-252. 111 ayat. About 50 minutes at a steady pace, 36 quickly and 87 slowly.
• Juz 3 (pages 42 to 61): Al-Baqarah 253-286, Ali ‘Imran 1-92. 126 ayat across 2 surahs. About 56 minutes at a steady pace, 36 quickly and 83 slowly.
• Juz 4 (pages 62 to 81): Ali ‘Imran 93-200, An-Nisa 1-23. 131 ayat across 2 surahs. About 58 minutes at a steady pace, 34 quickly and 86 slowly.
• Juz 5 (pages 82 to 101): An-Nisa 24-147. 124 ayat. About 54 minutes at a steady pace, 36 quickly and 76 slowly.
• Juz 6 (pages 102 to 120): An-Nisa 148-176, Al-Ma’idah 1-81. 110 ayat across 2 surahs. About 55 minutes at a steady pace, 35 quickly and 83 slowly.
• Juz 7 (pages 121 to 141): Al-Ma’idah 82-120, Al-An’am 1-110. 149 ayat across 2 surahs. About 64 minutes at a steady pace, 39 quickly and 92 slowly.
• Juz 8 (pages 142 to 161): Al-An’am 111-165, Al-A’raf 1-87. 142 ayat across 2 surahs. About 62 minutes at a steady pace, 37 quickly and 88 slowly.
• Juz 9 (pages 162 to 181): Al-A’raf 88-206, Al-Anfal 1-40. 159 ayat across 2 surahs. About 60 minutes at a steady pace, 36 quickly and 80 slowly.
• Juz 10 (pages 182 to 200): Al-Anfal 41-75, At-Tawbah 1-92. 127 ayat across 2 surahs. About 58 minutes at a steady pace, 34 quickly and 84 slowly.
• Juz 11 (pages 201 to 221): At-Tawbah 93-129, Yunus, Hud 1-5. 151 ayat across 3 surahs. About 64 minutes at a steady pace, 36 quickly and 86 slowly.
• Juz 12 (pages 222 to 241): Hud 6-123, Yusuf 1-52. 170 ayat across 2 surahs. About 65 minutes at a steady pace, 38 quickly and 81 slowly.
• Juz 13 (pages 242 to 261): Yusuf 53-111, Ar-Ra’d, Ibrahim. 154 ayat across 3 surahs. About 61 minutes at a steady pace, 38 quickly and 83 slowly.
• Juz 14 (pages 262 to 281): Al-Hijr, An-Nahl. 227 ayat across 2 surahs. About 58 minutes at a steady pace, 35 quickly and 81 slowly.
• Juz 15 (pages 282 to 301): Al-Isra, Al-Kahf 1-74. 185 ayat across 2 surahs. About 57 minutes at a steady pace, 37 quickly and 88 slowly.
• Juz 16 (pages 302 to 321): Al-Kahf 75-110, Maryam, Taha. 269 ayat across 3 surahs. About 58 minutes at a steady pace, 36 quickly and 73 slowly.
• Juz 17 (pages 322 to 341): Al-Anbiya, Al-Hajj. 190 ayat across 2 surahs. About 56 minutes at a steady pace, 33 quickly and 79 slowly.
• Juz 18 (pages 342 to 361): Al-Mu’minun, An-Nur, Al-Furqan 1-20. 202 ayat across 3 surahs. About 64 minutes at a steady pace, 37 quickly and 89 slowly.
• Juz 19 (pages 362 to 381): Al-Furqan 21-77, Ash-Shu’ara, An-Naml 1-55. 339 ayat across 3 surahs. About 62 minutes at a steady pace, 38 quickly and 95 slowly.
• Juz 20 (pages 382 to 401): An-Naml 56-93, Al-Qasas, Al-‘Ankabut 1-45. 171 ayat across 3 surahs. About 60 minutes at a steady pace, 35 quickly and 91 slowly.
• Juz 21 (pages 402 to 421): Al-‘Ankabut 46-69, Ar-Rum, Luqman, As-Sajdah, Al-Ahzab 1-30. 178 ayat across 5 surahs. About 56 minutes at a steady pace, 35 quickly and 87 slowly.
• Juz 22 (pages 422 to 441): Al-Ahzab 31-73, Saba, Fatir, Ya-Sin 1-27. 169 ayat across 4 surahs. About 55 minutes at a steady pace, 37 quickly and 82 slowly.
• Juz 23 (pages 442 to 461): Ya-Sin 28-83, As-Saffat, Sad, Az-Zumar 1-31. 357 ayat across 4 surahs. About 65 minutes at a steady pace, 38 quickly and 94 slowly.
• Juz 24 (pages 462 to 481): Az-Zumar 32-75, Ghafir, Fussilat 1-46. 175 ayat across 3 surahs. About 57 minutes at a steady pace, 35 quickly and 81 slowly.
• Juz 25 (pages 482 to 501): Fussilat 47-54, Ash-Shuraa, Az-Zukhruf, Ad-Dukhan, Al-Jathiyah. 246 ayat across 5 surahs. About 63 minutes at a steady pace, 38 quickly and 96 slowly.
• Juz 26 (pages 502 to 521): Al-Ahqaf, Muhammad, Al-Fath, Al-Hujurat, Qaf, Adh-Dhariyat 1-30. 195 ayat across 6 surahs. About 62 minutes at a steady pace, 38 quickly and 86 slowly.
• Juz 27 (pages 522 to 541): Adh-Dhariyat 31-60, At-Tur, An-Najm, Al-Qamar, Ar-Rahman, Al-Waqi’ah, Al-Hadid. 399 ayat across 7 surahs. About 67 minutes at a steady pace, 37 quickly and 91 slowly.
• Juz 28 (pages 542 to 561): Al-Mujadila, Al-Hashr, Al-Mumtahanah, As-Saf, Al-Jumu’ah, Al-Munafiqun, At-Taghabun, At-Talaq, At-Tahrim. 137 ayat across 9 surahs. About 57 minutes at a steady pace, 37 quickly and 85 slowly.
• Juz 29 (pages 562 to 581): Al-Mulk, Al-Qalam, Al-Haqqah, Al-Ma’arij, Nuh, Al-Jinn, Al-Muzzammil, Al-Muddaththir, Al-Qiyamah, Al-Insan, Al-Mursalat. 431 ayat across 11 surahs. About 60 minutes at a steady pace, 39 quickly and 87 slowly.
• Juz 30 (pages 582 to 604): all 37 surahs from An-Naba to An-Nas. 564 ayat. About 55 minutes at a steady pace, 33 quickly and 82 slowly.

Why the juz feel so different

Every juz is roughly the same length on the page, but not in ayat or in feel. Juz 2 has only 111 ayat because so many of them are long legal passages on fasting, Hajj, marriage and divorce. Juz 30 has 564, five times as many, because most of its surahs are short, rhythmic Makkan surahs. That’s why Juz Amma feels quicker to memorize than its 23 pages suggest, and why juz 2 can feel slow even at the same number of lines a day.

Recitation time varies less than you might expect. At Alafasy’s steady pace every juz falls between 50 and 67 minutes. Juz 27, with Ar-Rahman, Al-Waqi’ah and long flowing passages, is the longest; juz 2 is the shortest.

Twelve of the 30 juz have a place of prostration in them, and juz 17, 19 and 30 have two each. If you lead prayer or recite for a teacher, it helps to know where they fall: see all 15 places of sajdat at-tilawah, with page and juz.

How long does it take to memorize a juz?

A juz is about 300 lines of the 15-line mushaf. At 5 lines a day that’s around 60 days of new memorization, at half a page a day about 40, and at a page a day about 20. Add revision days on top. Juz 30 is the usual place to start; our guide to memorizing Juz Amma has an order and a week-by-week plan, and how to memorize Juz 29 covers the next one.

For recitation times surah by surah and for all 11 reciters we timed, see how long it takes to recite each surah and juz. For words like hizb, rub’ and manzil, the other ways the Quran is divided, see our hifz vocabulary.

Already memorized a juz? You can test yourself on it with next-ayah, missing-word and similar-verse questions.

Questions people ask

How many juz are in the Quran?

Thirty. The division into thirty roughly equal parts makes it easy to read the whole Quran in a month, one juz a day.

How many pages is one juz?

In the 15-line Madani mushaf most juz are exactly 20 pages. The first is 21 pages and the last is 23; juz 6 and 10 are 19 and juz 7 and 11 are 21.

What is a para or sipara?

The same thing as a juz. Para and sipara are the words used in South Asia and in many UK madrasas.

Which juz is Surah Ya-Sin in?

It starts in juz 22 and finishes in juz 23. Juz 23 begins at Ya-Sin 36:28.

Which juz is Surah Al-Kahf in?

Juz 15 and 16. Juz 16 begins at Al-Kahf 18:75, partway through the story of Musa and Al-Khidr.

Which juz is Surah Al-Mulk in?

Al-Mulk opens juz 29, which is why juz 29 is often called Juz Tabarak, after the surah’s first word.

How long does it take to read one juz?

About 50 to 67 minutes at a steady pace with Mishary Alafasy, roughly 35 minutes at Saud ash-Shuraim’s quick pace, and up to an hour and a half at Al-Husary’s slow pace.

Which juz is each well-known surah in?

Here are the surahs people ask about most:

• Al-Baqarah: juz 1 to 3. Juz 2 begins at 2:142 and juz 3 at 2:253.
• Yusuf: juz 12 and 13. Juz 13 begins at 12:53.
• Al-Kahf: juz 15 and 16. Juz 16 begins at 18:75.
• Maryam: all of it is in juz 16.
• Ya-Sin: juz 22 and 23. Juz 23 begins at 36:28.
• Ar-Rahman and Al-Waqi’ah: both in juz 27.
• Al-Mulk: the first surah of juz 29.

For every other surah, see our list of surahs in the Quran.