Prayer Times in Turkey
Prayer times in Turkey for 432 cities, calculated with the Diyanet İşleri Başkanlığı method (Turkey) method and each city's own time zone.
Which prayer time method is used in Turkey?
Prayer times in Turkey follow the timetable method of the Diyanet İşleri Başkanlığı (Presidency of Religious Affairs): İmsak (Fajr) at 18°, Yatsı (Isha) at 17°, plus the official precaution minutes (temkin): sunrise −7, Dhuhr +5, Asr +4, Maghrib +7. Asr uses the Standard shadow, as Diyanet does; switch to Hanafi Asr on any city page.
- Method
- Diyanet İşleri Başkanlığı method (Turkey)
- Fajr / Isha
- 18° / 17°
- Asr
- Standard
- Cities
- 432
Calculated in each city's own time zone.
Largest cities in Turkey
Islamic (Hijri) calendar in Turkey
Today in Ankara, Friday, 16 October 2026 is 5 Jumada al-Ula 1448 AH.
The calendar follows Turkey's own month starts (calculated moon-sighting rule or announced dates), with today's date taken in the capital, Ankara. Tap a day for its prayer times. Full Hijri calendar and date converter
Prayer times by region
Adana 7 cities
Adiyaman Province 5 cities
Afyonkarahisar Province 6 cities
Agri 4 cities
Aksaray 2 cities
Amasya 4 cities
Ankara 15 cities
Antalya 16 cities
Ardahan 1 cities
Artvin 3 cities
Aydin 7 cities
Balikesir 10 cities
Bartin 1 cities
Batman 2 cities
Bayburt Province 1 cities
Bilecik 3 cities
Bingoel 3 cities
Bitlis 6 cities
Bolu 2 cities
Burdur 2 cities
Bursa Province 14 cities
Canakkale 5 cities
Cankiri 2 cities
Corum 5 cities
Denizli 4 cities
Diyarbakir Province 7 cities
Duzce 3 cities
Edirne 3 cities
Elazig 4 cities
Erzincan 2 cities
Erzurum 8 cities
Eskisehir 1 cities
Gaziantep 2 cities
Giresun 6 cities
Guemueshane Province 2 cities
Hakkari 3 cities
Hatay 13 cities
Igdir 2 cities
Isparta 5 cities
Istanbul 35 cities
- Arnavutköy
- Ataşehir
- Bahçelievler
- Bağcılar
- Başakşehir
- Beylikdüzü
- Büyükçekmece
- Eminönü
- Esenler
- Esenyurt
- Fatih
- Güngören Merter
- Gürpınar
- Istanbul
- Kavaklı
- Küçükçekmece
- Maltepe
- Merter Keresteciler
- Mimarsinan
- Sancaktepe
- Silivri
- Sultanbeyli
- Sultangazi
- Tarabya
- Tepecik
- Yakuplu
- Zekeriya
- Zeytinburnu
- Çatalca
- Çubuklu
- Ümraniye
- Üsküdar
- İstinye
- Şile
- Şişli
Izmir Province 26 cities
Kahramanmaras 6 cities
Karabuek Province 2 cities
Karaman 2 cities
Kars Province 3 cities
Kastamonu 3 cities
Kayseri 5 cities
Kilis 1 cities
Kirikkale 2 cities
Kirklareli 3 cities
Kirsehir 3 cities
Kocaeli 7 cities
Konya 11 cities
Kuetahya 5 cities
Malatya 3 cities
Manisa 9 cities
Mardin 6 cities
Mersin 8 cities
Mugla 10 cities
Mus 4 cities
Nevsehir Province 2 cities
Nigde Province 2 cities
Ordu 6 cities
Osmaniye 2 cities
Rize Province 3 cities
Sakarya 9 cities
Samsun 7 cities
Sanliurfa 9 cities
Siirt 2 cities
Sinop 2 cities
Sirnak 4 cities
Sivas 4 cities
Tekirdag 5 cities
Tokat Province 5 cities
Trabzon 9 cities
Tunceli 2 cities
Usak 2 cities
Van 2 cities
Yalova 1 cities
Yozgat 4 cities
Zonguldak Province 5 cities
How prayer times are calculated in Turkey
Prayer times in Turkey follow the timetable method of the Diyanet İşleri Başkanlığı (Presidency of Religious Affairs): İmsak (Fajr) at 18°, Yatsı (Isha) at 17°, plus the official precaution minutes (temkin): sunrise −7, Dhuhr +5, Asr +4, Maghrib +7. Asr uses the Standard shadow, as Diyanet does; switch to Hanafi Asr on any city page.
- Method
- Diyanet İşleri Başkanlığı method (Turkey)
- Fajr
- 18°
- Isha
- 17°
- Asr
- Standard
- Cities
- 432
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Muslims and mosques in Turkey
Almost everyone in Turkey is registered as Muslim: official records list 99.8% of the population, and surveys estimate between 90% and 95% because the state registers people as Muslim at birth by default. Most Muslims are Sunni and follow the Hanafi school, and a 2013 Diyanet survey found that 77.5% of Turkish Muslims identify as Hanafi. Alevis are close to 10% of Muslims, with Ja'fari and Alawite minorities of about 1% each. Alevis gather in their own houses of worship, the cemevi, which the Diyanet does not fund.
Religion in Turkey is organised by the state. The Presidency of Religious Affairs, the Diyanet, was founded in 1924 after the caliphate was abolished, it manages about 85,000 mosques, it employs all imams and it finances only Sunni worship. Secularisation began in the last years of the Ottoman Empire and was a core part of Atatürk's reforms: the sultanate was abolished in 1922, the caliphate in 1924, religious education was banned and the building of new mosques was restricted in the 1920s and 1930s, and religious education was made compulsory for primary and secondary pupils in 1982.
The country's mosques are some of the best known in the world. Hagia Sophia was a Byzantine church until Mehmet II converted it to a mosque after the conquest of Constantinople in 1453; it became a museum in 1935 and was opened again for prayer in 2020. The Sultan Ahmed Mosque, known as the Blue Mosque, was built in Istanbul in 1616, and the Süleymaniye in Istanbul and the Selimiye in Edirne are classics of Ottoman architecture. Turkish Friday sermons are written by the Diyanet and read in every mosque, and prayer times are published by the Diyanet for every province and district in the country.
That is why Turkey is the clearest case of a single official timetable. The Diyanet's times use an angle of 18 degrees for imsak (Fajr) and 17 degrees for Yatsı (Isha), plus fixed safety minutes (temkin) that adjust sunrise, Dhuhr, Asr and Maghrib, and they are published for the whole country, so mosques follow them rather than their own calculations. The Diyanet also decides the Hijri calendar: it follows the criteria adopted by the International Hijri Calendar Union Congress in Istanbul in 2016, which do not depend on a sighting from Turkey itself, and on that basis it announced 19 February 2026 as the first day of Ramadan. The times on this site follow the same method for Turkish cities, and the Diyanet's own tables remain the official reference.
Sources, checked 2026-10: Wikipedia: Islam in Turkey; Diyanet: Beginning of the month of Ramadan 1447 AH; Morocco World News: Türkiye confirms 19 February as first day of Ramadan.
Prayer times in Turkey: common questions
How many cities in Turkey does Awqatly cover?
432 cities and towns in Turkey. 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 Turkey?
For each city we use its own latitude, longitude and time zone with the Diyanet İşleri Başkanlığı method (Turkey) method (Fajr 18°, Isha 17°) and Standard Asr. These are the astronomical start times of each prayer.
Which Asr time does Turkey use?
We show Standard Asr first for Turkey, 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 Turkey?
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 Turkey?
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.