Compare today's prayer times in 33 countries, see why they differ, which method each country uses and where the Qibla points from each city.
No. Prayer times are calculated from the sun's position at each place, so they change with latitude, longitude and the method a country follows. Today the fasting day, Fajr to Maghrib, lasts 14h 25m in Sydney and 11h 55m in Paris. Compare 33 countries below, or search your city for its exact times.
Updated 16 October 2026. Calculated astronomically for each city's coordinates and time zone.
The largest city of every country we cover, calculated for today in its own time zone. The bar is the local day from midnight to midnight: the gold band runs from sunrise to sunset, the lighter bands are the twilight in which Fajr and Isha fall. Read down the table and you can see latitude at work.
| City | Fajr | Maghrib | Fajr to Maghrib | Local day | Qibla |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Helsinki | 06:03 | 18:08 | 12h 05m | 158° SSE | |
| Oslo | 05:59 | 18:06 | 12h 07m | 139° SE | |
| Stockholm | 05:29 | 17:38 | 12h 09m | 148° SSE | |
| Copenhagen | 05:46 | 18:07 | 12h 21m | 138° SE | |
| Dublin | 05:58 | 18:27 | 12h 29m | 114° ESE | |
| Berlin | 05:40 | 18:17 | 12h 37m | 137° SE | |
| Rotterdam | 06:16 | 18:46 | 12h 30m | 125° SE | |
| London | 05:51 | 18:08 | 12h 17m | 119° ESE | |
| Brussels | 06:18 | 18:48 | 12h 30m | 123° ESE | |
| Paris | 07:04 | 18:59 | 11h 55m | 119° ESE | |
| Vienna | 05:32 | 18:11 | 12h 39m | 137° SE | |
| Zürich | 06:03 | 18:36 | 12h 33m | 125° SE | |
| Toronto | 06:14 | 18:32 | 12h 18m | 55° NE | |
| Rome | 05:51 | 18:27 | 12h 36m | 123° ESE | |
| Istanbul | 05:45 | 18:30 | 12h 45m | 152° SSE | |
| New York City | 05:53 | 18:14 | 12h 21m | 58° ENE | |
| Madrid | 06:56 | 19:34 | 12h 38m | 104° ESE | |
| Casablanca | 05:08 | 18:01 | 12h 53m | 94° E | |
| Lahore | 04:46 | 17:29 | 12h 43m | 260° W | |
| Cairo | 05:31 | 18:23 | 12h 52m | 136° SE | |
| Al Aḩmadī | 04:30 | 17:17 | 12h 47m | 226° SW | |
| Al Muharraq | 04:18 | 17:09 | 12h 51m | 246° WSW | |
| Doha | 04:16 | 17:06 | 12h 50m | 253° WSW | |
| Dubai | 05:01 | 17:53 | 12h 52m | 259° W | |
| Dhaka | 04:41 | 17:31 | 12h 50m | 278° W | |
| Muscat | 04:49 | 17:39 | 12h 50m | 266° W | |
| Jeddah | 05:03 | 17:58 | 12h 55m | 96° E | |
| Mumbai | 05:20 | 18:14 | 12h 54m | 280° W | |
| Lagos | 05:23 | 18:31 | 13h 08m | 63° ENE | |
| Kuala Lumpur | 05:50 | 19:01 | 13h 11m | 293° WNW | |
| Jakarta | 04:15 | 17:49 | 13h 34m | 295° WNW | |
| Johannesburg | 04:13 | 18:15 | 14h 02m | 15° NNE | |
| Sydney | 04:45 | 19:10 | 14h 25m | 278° W |
Every time on this site comes from the position of the sun. Four things decide when it reaches the angles that mark each prayer.
The further a city is from the equator, the more its day length swings through the year and the slower the sun sinks after sunset. In Helsinki (60.2° N) daylight lasts 18h 56m at the June solstice but only 5h 49m in December; in Kuala Lumpur (3.1° N) it stays between 12h 22m and 11h 58m. Near midsummer in the far north the sun never drops 18° below the horizon, which is why high-latitude rules exist for Fajr and Isha.
Cities that share a clock do not share a sun. Madrid and Johannesburg both keep UTC+2 today, but Johannesburg lies 31.7° further east, so the sun crosses its meridian earlier: Dhuhr today is at 11:54 in Johannesburg and 14:01 in Madrid, 127 minutes apart. That is about four minutes for every degree of longitude.
The Earth's 23.4° tilt moves the sun north and south through the year. In Helsinki the fast lasts 12h 05m today and will last 9h 53m on 15 November; in Kuala Lumpur, closer to the equator, it changes from 13h 11m to 13h 09m over the same month.
Fajr begins when dawn light appears and Isha when the evening twilight disappears. Scholars and authorities measure this as the sun being 12° to 19.5° below the horizon, and some fix Isha at 90 minutes after Maghrib. The same city can therefore have Fajr times 20 to 40 minutes apart depending on the method. We use the method most mosques in each country follow and let you change it on every city page. See the full mathematics and geometry.
The default method, twilight angles and Asr school for each country, with the number of cities and OpenStreetMap mosques we cover. Asr is Hanafi (shadow twice an object's length) in the UK, Germany, Austria, Pakistan, India and Bangladesh and, outside the Western Cape, in South Africa, and Standard (shadow equal to its length) elsewhere, including Kerala and coastal Karnataka; every city page lets you switch.
| Country | Method | Fajr / Isha | Asr | Cities | Mosques |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | Moonsighting Committee | 18° + seasonal / 18° + seasonal | Hanafi | 866 | 1,330 |
| United States | ISNA (North America) | 15° / 15° | Standard | 3,408 | 1,108 |
| Canada | ISNA (North America) | 15° / 15° | Standard | 510 | 320 |
| Australia | Muslim World League | 18° / 17° | Standard | 312 | 151 |
| France | UOIF (France, 12°) | 12° / 12° | Standard | 692 | 892 |
| Belgium | Muslim World League | 18° / 17° | Standard | 223 | 258 |
| Netherlands | Muslim World League | 18° / 17° | Standard | 252 | 410 |
| Germany | Diyanet (Turkey) | 18° / 17° | Hanafi | 1,140 | 1,737 |
| Austria | Diyanet (Turkey) | 18° / 17° | Hanafi | 66 | 215 |
| Switzerland | Muslim World League | 18° / 17° | Standard | 95 | 115 |
| Sweden | Muslim World League | 18° / 17° | Standard | 111 | 50 |
| Denmark | Muslim World League | 18° / 17° | Standard | 67 | 56 |
| Norway | Muslim World League | 18° / 17° | Standard | 42 | 60 |
| Finland | Muslim World League | 18° / 17° | Standard | 103 | 67 |
| Ireland | Muslim World League | 18° / 17° | Standard | 43 | 30 |
| Spain | Muslim World League | 18° / 17° | Standard | 735 | 373 |
| Italy | Muslim World League | 18° / 17° | Standard | 661 | 332 |
| Turkey | Diyanet İşleri Başkanlığı method (Turkey) | 18° / 17° | Standard | 432 | 0 |
| United Arab Emirates | Dubai | 18.2° / 18.2° | Standard | 63 | 437 |
| Saudi Arabia | Umm al-Qura, Makkah | 18.5° / 90 min | Standard | 98 | 3,371 |
| Qatar | Qatar | 18° / 90 min | Standard | 26 | 129 |
| Kuwait | Kuwait | 18° / 17.5° | Standard | 18 | 1,686 |
| Bahrain | Umm al-Qura, Makkah | 18.5° / 90 min | Standard | 8 | 677 |
| Oman | Muslim World League | 18° / 17° | Standard | 28 | 722 |
| Pakistan | University of Islamic Sciences, Karachi | 18° / 18° | Hanafi | 370 | 7,652 |
| India | University of Islamic Sciences, Karachi | 18° / 18° | Hanafi | 1,130 | 0 |
| Bangladesh | University of Islamic Sciences, Karachi | 18° / 18° | Hanafi | 139 | 15,218 |
| Indonesia | Kemenag (Indonesia) | 20° / 18° | Standard | 448 | 52,688 |
| Malaysia | JAKIM zone method (Malaysia) | 18° / 18° | Standard | 355 | 7,169 |
| Egypt | Egyptian General Authority | 19.5° / 17.5° | Standard | 241 | 4,968 |
| Morocco | Ministry of Habous (Morocco) | 19° / 17° | Standard | 180 | 4,022 |
| Nigeria | Muslim World League | 18° / 17° | Standard | 270 | 2,796 |
| South Africa | Muslim World League | 18° / 17° | Hanafi | 307 | 1,150 |
The qibla is the direction of the shortest path over the Earth to the Kaaba, not a straight line on a flat map. That is why the qibla from North America points north-east rather than south-east, and from Scandinavia almost due south-east.
No. Every prayer time comes from the sun's position, so it depends on a place's latitude, longitude and time zone and on the calculation method its country follows. Two cities in one time zone can differ by several minutes, and the same city can differ by 20 to 40 minutes between methods.
Among the largest cities we cover, the longest fast from Fajr to Maghrib today is 14h 25m in Sydney and the shortest is 11h 55m in Paris. The order changes with the seasons: northern countries have the longest days in June and southern ones in December.
Three things decide them. Location: latitude changes the length of the day and longitude moves solar noon by about four minutes per degree. Season: the Earth's tilt moves the sun north and south through the year. Method: the twilight angle for Fajr and Isha (12° to 19.5°) and the Asr school. The table above shows the default for each country.
The one most mosques and the national authority follow: Umm al-Qura in Saudi Arabia, the Diyanet method in Turkey, Karachi in Pakistan and Bangladesh, the North America (ISNA) method in the United States and Canada, and so on. The table above lists the method, the Fajr and Isha angles and the Asr school for all 33 countries, and every city page lets you switch.
The qibla is the shortest direction over the Earth to the Kaaba in Makkah, not a straight line on a flat map. It points north-east from North America, south-east from most of Europe, west from Indonesia, Malaysia and Australia, and south-west from Kuwait. The list above gives the bearing and distance from the largest city of every country.
Above about 48° latitude the twilight never fully ends near midsummer, so the usual angle cannot be measured. We then apply the high-latitude rule that divides the night into sevenths, a fallback many mosques in Scandinavia and Canada use, so Fajr and Isha stay realistic.
Allow your location on the home page or search for your city. Every city page shows today's times, the next prayer, a monthly timetable and the qibla direction, calculated for its own coordinates and time zone with the method used locally. Awqatly covers 33 countries and 13,439 cities, with 110,189 mosques mapped.
These are the astronomical start times of each prayer. Mosques publish congregation (jamaat) times, usually a few minutes to an hour later, and some add safety minutes or use a different angle. We do not publish congregation times, so check with your mosque for those.