Prayer Times in Finland
Prayer times in Finland for 103 cities, calculated with the Muslim World League method and each city's own time zone.
Which prayer time method is used in Finland?
The Muslim World League method (Fajr 18°, Isha 17°) is widely used by mosques in Finland. Standard Asr is the default; switch to Hanafi on any city page. In the far north the seventh-of-the-night rule keeps summer Fajr and Isha practical.
- Method
- Muslim World League
- Fajr / Isha
- 18° / 17°
- Asr
- Standard
- Cities
- 103
Calculated in each city's own time zone.
Largest cities in Finland
Islamic (Hijri) calendar in Finland
Today in Helsinki, Saturday, 14 November 2026 is 4 Jumada al-Akhirah 1448 AH.
The calendar follows Finland's own month starts (calculated moon-sighting rule or announced dates), with today's date taken in the capital, Helsinki. Tap a day for its prayer times. Communities in Finland do not all start a month on the same day: some follow Saudi Arabia, others a local sighting or an astronomical calculation, so a date can differ by one day. Check your own mosque for Ramadan and Eid. Full Hijri calendar and date converter
Prayer times by region
Central Finland 4 cities
Central Ostrobothnia 1 cities
Kainuu 1 cities
Kanta-Haeme 4 cities
Kymenlaakso 5 cities
Lapland 3 cities
North Karelia 2 cities
North Ostrobothnia 4 cities
North Savo 4 cities
Ostrobothnia 3 cities
Paijat-Hame 5 cities
Pirkanmaa 11 cities
Satakunta 2 cities
South Karelia 2 cities
South Ostrobothnia 3 cities
South Savo 3 cities
Southwest Finland 8 cities
Uusimaa 38 cities
- East Helsinki
- Espoo
- Espoonlahti
- Haaga
- Helsinki
- Herttoniemi
- Hyvinge
- Järvenpää
- Kaarela
- Kallio
- Kerava
- Kirkkonummi
- Klaukkala
- Laajasalo
- Lauttasaari
- Leppävaara
- Lohja
- Matinkylä
- Mellunkylä
- Munkkiniemi
- Myyrmäki
- Mäntsälä
- Nurmijärvi
- Olari
- Oulunkylä
- Pitäjänmäki
- Porvoo
- Raseborg
- Sibbo
- Suurmetsä
- Suutarila
- Taka-Töölö
- Tuusula
- Vantaa
- Vartiokylä
- Vihti
- Viikki
- Vuosaari
How prayer times are calculated in Finland
The Muslim World League method (Fajr 18°, Isha 17°) is widely used by mosques in Finland. Standard Asr is the default; switch to Hanafi on any city page. In the far north the seventh-of-the-night rule keeps summer Fajr and Isha practical.
- Method
- Muslim World League
- Fajr
- 18°
- Isha
- 17°
- Asr
- Standard
- Cities
- 103
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Muslims and mosques in Finland
Finland's official statistics show very few Muslims, because only people registered in a Muslim community are counted by religion. The 2021 census counted 20,876 people in registered Muslim communities, 0.37% of the population, but most Muslims in Finland do not belong to any registered community. Estimates for 2022 put the real number at 120,000 to 130,000, about 2.3%, and Statistics Finland's language data for 2024 give a sense of the origins, since the speakers of Arabic (43,534), Somali (26,891), Persian (22,154), Albanian (19,072) and Kurdish (17,953) include many Muslims. The Muslim population was about 2,700 in 1990 and 20,000 by 2003, when there were about 30 mosques.
Finland has one of the oldest Muslim communities in Northern Europe. Tatars from the Volga region arrived mainly between 1870 and 1920, mostly as traders, and after the religious freedom law of 1922 they founded the Finnish-Islamic Congregation in 1925. About 1,000 Tatars are members today. The larger part of the community arrived from the early 1990s, with people from the Middle East and North Africa, Somalia and the Balkans, followed by Iraqi and Afghan asylum seekers, among them Shia refugees from Iraq. The Islamic Society of Finland was founded in 1987, and the Helsinki Islamic Center, with 1,817 members in 2009, was then the largest registered society.
Most Muslims live in the Helsinki region, Tampere, Oulu and Turku. The Finnish-Islamic Congregation has mosques in Helsinki, Tampere and Lahti. Religious services are held in Arabic, and most mosques also use English and Finnish. About 1,000 Finns have converted to Islam, mostly women who married Muslim men. The constitution guarantees freedom of religion, and in 2018 the Justice Minister ruled out Islamic law in Finland.
Latitude is the central fact for prayer times in Finland. Helsinki lies at about 60 degrees north, and Rovaniemi at 66.5 degrees on the Arctic Circle, so for a few weeks in summer there is no real night and the usual angles for Fajr and Isha cannot be reached; a high-latitude rule is applied here, and some Muslims in the far north follow the times of a city further south instead. On this site's calculation the fast from Fajr to Maghrib in Helsinki lasts about 19 and a half hours on 21 June and 8 and a half hours on 21 December. Clocks move forward in March and back in October, and each mosque sets its own congregation times.
Sources, checked 2026-10: Wikipedia: Islam in Finland; Statistics Finland.
Prayer times in Finland: common questions
How many cities in Finland does Awqatly cover?
103 cities and towns in Finland. Every one has its own page with today's prayer times, the next prayer, a monthly timetable and the qibla direction.
How are prayer times calculated in Finland?
For each city we use its own latitude, longitude and time zone with the Muslim World League method (Fajr 18°, Isha 17°) and Standard Asr. These are the astronomical start times of each prayer.
Which Asr time does Finland use?
We show Standard Asr first for Finland, and every city page also shows the other school so you can choose. The difference is the length of the shadow that marks the start of Asr.
Do the times change during the year in Finland?
Yes. The sun's path shifts every day, so every prayer moves a little daily. The gap between Fajr and Maghrib is longest in summer and shortest in winter, and more so the further a city is from the equator.
Are these times the same as my local mosque's timetable?
These are the start times of each prayer. Mosques publish congregation (jamaat) times, usually a few minutes to an hour later, and some add safety minutes. We do not publish congregation times, so check with your mosque.
How do I find the prayer times for my city in Finland?
Choose your city from the lists on this page, search for it, or allow your location on the home page. A city page shows today's times, a monthly timetable, the qibla and the mosques nearby.