Your registration is only worth what you do on launch day.

Everything up to this point (the account, the documents, the verification, the waiting) puts you in a position to do one thing well. Packages are released for viewing, then sold in phases over several weeks, and the best-located ones go in the first phase.

People who have done everything right still lose a season here, because they treated launch day as an event to attend rather than one to prepare for.

How the season runs

The dates follow the lunar calendar and move every year. The way a Nusuk package is booked stays the same.

1. 01Registration opensAutumn
2. 02VerificationDays to weeks
3. 03Fund your eWalletBefore launch
4. 04Packages releasedWinter
5. 05Purchase phasesOver weeks
6. 06Visa & ticketsSpring

Do this nowGet ready before it opens

Dates are set by the Ministry each year and announced on the portal. The order of the steps has stayed the same each year; the dates have not.Reviewed 26 August 2026

Registration for Hajj 2026 opened on 7 October 2025. Packages went up for viewing in early January, and the first phase of sales opened on 1 February 2026. That is the best guide anyone has to the next season.

Three weeks before

Fund the eWallet, and test it. Not “arrange to fund it” — actually move the money and confirm it has arrived. The two things that stop payments are international transaction permissions and daily transfer limits, and both take days to change.

Raise your card limit if you plan to pay by card. Do it months ahead if you can. A declined card at the moment your phase opens is not recoverable in the five minutes you will have.

Build a shortlist of three, not just one favorite. Three packages in order, with the camp, the hotel and the occupancy written down for each. When your phase opens you want to be reading a decision you already made, not making one.

The night before

• Know your phase. Not everyone buys on the same day. Confirm which window is yours and what time it opens in your own timezone.
• Log in and stay logged in. Confirm your password works now, while there is still time to reset it.
• Screenshot your shortlist. Package names, camp names, room types. You will not want to be searching another tab.
• Decide your fallback. If your first choice is gone, what do you take? Answer that tonight.
• Use one device, ideally a computer on a wired internet connection, not a phone with a weak signal and several tabs open.

The first ten minutes

Expect a queue or waiting room. This is the system working, not failing. Do not refresh — on most queue systems, refreshing costs you your place.

When you get in, buy the package you already decided on. Do not start comparing. Do not open a second tab to check something. You gathered the information weeks ago. What is scarce now is time.

If your first choice has gone, take your fallback. The gap between a first and second choice is almost always smaller than the gap between second choice and nothing.

If you miss your phase

It is not over. Packages are released in batches over several weeks, and canceled packages come back on sale throughout. What matters is that you are watching when the next batch is released, which is precisely what the community exists for — announcements reach that channel faster than they reach anywhere you would think to check.