About Prayer Times Global

Prayer Times Global publishes daily and monthly prayer times for cities across the Middle East, North and West Africa, South and Southeast Asia and Europe. Our aim is narrow and practical: give a Muslim anywhere in the world an accurate, fast, honest answer to the question of when the next prayer begins in their city.

What this site does

For every city we cover, you get the five daily prayer times for today, the time of sunrise, a live countdown to the next prayer, and a full monthly calendar you can plan around. Each city page states the calculation authority applied in that country and explains the local context that affects the times, including the school of jurisprudence that shapes Asr in that region and the seasonal range across the year.

Alongside the city pages we maintain two reference tools: a qibla direction finder that gives the bearing to the Kaaba from any location, and a Hijri calendar converter for moving between the Islamic and Gregorian dates.

Why we built it

Prayer time information is abundant online and much of it is careless. Sites publish a single global calculation method and apply it to every country, so a user in Karachi is shown times derived from a Saudi convention, or a user in Jakarta gets figures from an American one. Others display nothing until a script finishes loading, offer no monthly view, or never state which authority produced the numbers. The result is a user who cannot tell whether the time in front of them reflects the practice of their own community.

We took the opposite approach. Every country on this site is assigned the convention its own religious authority actually publishes. Saudi cities use Umm al-Qura. Egyptian cities use the Egyptian General Authority of Survey. Pakistani, Indian and Bangladeshi cities use the University of Islamic Sciences in Karachi. Turkish cities use Diyanet, Malaysian cities use JAKIM, Indonesian cities use Kemenag. The method in force is printed on the page, not hidden in the code.

How we work

Times are computed from published astronomical parameters for each authority, using each city’s own stored coordinates and IANA timezone, so daylight saving is handled correctly wherever it applies. Calculations are performed and cached on our servers rather than in your browser, which means the times are present in the page when it loads and remain readable if a script fails.

Our full technical explanation, including the solar depression angles used by each authority, the Hanafi and Shafi’i positions on Asr, and how we handle high latitude locations where astronomical twilight does not occur in midsummer, is set out in how we calculate prayer times.

What we are not

We are a reference, not a religious authority. We do not issue rulings, we do not adjudicate between schools of jurisprudence, and we do not replace your local mosque. Where our times differ from the masjid you pray at, the mosque governs for your congregation. We explain the common reasons for such differences on our methodology page, and we set out the limits of what we publish in our disclaimer.

We also do not collect a profile on you. We do not require an account, we do not ask for your name or email to show you a prayer time, and we do not sell data. If you use the locate-me feature, your coordinates are used in your browser to pick the nearest city and are not stored on our servers. Full detail is in our privacy policy.

Coverage

The site currently covers 268 cities across 25 countries, chosen by population and by the size of the Muslim community in each place. Arabic language pages are published for the seventeen countries where Arabic is a primary language of the Muslim population, with full right-to-left layout. The remaining countries are served in English.

Coverage expands continuously. If your city is missing, or if a city we cover has the wrong coordinates or the wrong calculation method for local practice, please tell us through our contact page. Requests from users are the main input into what we add next.

Accuracy and corrections

We treat accuracy as the whole point of the site. Every reported error is checked against the relevant published authority, and genuine errors are corrected and dated. Our process for handling reports, and the standards we hold our own content to, are described in our editorial and corrections policy.

Contact

For corrections, city requests, or any other question, use the form on our contact page. It is the only way to reach us, and we read everything that arrives.