Editorial and Corrections Policy

People use this site to decide when to pray and when to break a fast. That places a duty on us to be accurate, to be open about where our numbers come from, and to fix mistakes quickly and visibly. This page sets out the standards we hold ourselves to and what happens when you report an error.

Last updated: 3 August 2026

Our standards

Every time we publish is traceable to a named authority

We do not invent calculation parameters and we do not average between conventions. Each country is assigned the convention published by its national religious authority or by the body local mosques follow. That authority is named on every city page, beneath the times table, and the full list with the underlying solar angles is published on our methodology page. If you cannot tell where a number came from, we have failed.

We state our limits

Calculated times are predictions of a sky condition, not observations of it. Where a figure is an approximation rather than a calculation, we say so. This applies particularly at high latitudes in midsummer, where astronomical dawn and nightfall do not occur and any published time is an estimate. We would rather tell you a number is uncertain than present it with false confidence.

We do not issue religious rulings

We are a reference. We do not adjudicate between schools of jurisprudence, and where schools differ, as they do on Asr, we describe both positions rather than endorsing one. Questions of religious practice belong with a qualified scholar or your local imam.

We separate reference from advertising

Advertising, where present, is visually distinct from content. No advertiser has any influence over the times we publish, the cities we cover, or the calculation methods we apply. We do not accept payment to alter a calculation, to feature a city, or to place a link in editorial text.

We do not publish what we cannot stand behind

We do not predict moon sighting or announce the start of Islamic months. Those determinations belong to national and local authorities, and publishing a guess in their place would be worse than publishing nothing.

How our content is produced

City pages combine two things: calculated times, and descriptive context about the city and its local practice. The times are computed from stored coordinates, an IANA timezone and the country’s assigned calculation method, then cached and refreshed daily. The descriptive content is drafted in house against the same source material we cite on our methodology page, then checked for factual claims about the calculation authority in force, the dominant school affecting Asr, and the seasonal range of times across the year.

Where a page makes a claim about local practice, that claim is the part most likely to need correction from someone who actually lives there. We treat reports from local users as the highest quality signal we receive.

How to report an error

Use the form on our contact page and choose “An incorrect prayer time” as the topic. The most useful report includes the city page, the date, which prayer is affected, the time we published, the time you expected, and the source you are comparing against. The form has fields for the city and date so you do not have to remember to include them.

Before reporting, it is worth checking whether the difference is one of the expected ones. The gap between the start of a prayer window, which is what we publish, and the iqamah announced at a mosque is normal and is often twenty minutes or more. The gap between the Hanafi and Shafi’i positions on Asr can exceed an hour. Both are explained on our methodology page. Neither is an error on our part.

What happens after you report

1. Acknowledgement. Reports of incorrect times are prioritised above all other correspondence and are usually looked at the same day.
2. Verification. We recompute the time independently for the date and coordinates in question and compare it against the published output of the relevant authority. We do not take either your figure or our own on trust.
3. Classification. A genuine error usually falls into one of three categories: wrong coordinates for the city, wrong calculation method assigned to the country, or a factual error in the descriptive text. Differences that stem from iqamah timing, madhab, or position within a large city are not errors, and we will explain that to you rather than change the figure.
4. Correction. Confirmed errors are fixed at source, so the correction propagates to every affected page and every future date rather than being patched on one page.
5. Reply. We tell you what we found and what we changed, including when we concluded there was no error and why.

How we mark corrections

When we correct a substantive factual error in published text, we update the page and revise its last-updated date. Where a correction changes something a reader may have relied on, such as a calculation method applied to a whole country, we note what changed rather than editing silently.

Routine updates, such as recalculating daily times or adding new cities, are not corrections and are not annotated.

Sources

Calculations use the Aladhan astronomical service, which implements the standard algorithms together with the published parameters of the authorities named on our methodology page, among them Umm al-Qura University, the Muslim World League, the Egyptian General Authority of Survey, the University of Islamic Sciences in Karachi, Diyanet Isleri Baskanligi, JAKIM and Kemenag. Where a country’s convention is set by its ministry of religious affairs, that ministry’s published parameters are what we apply.

Reviewing this site

Coverage, coordinates and assigned calculation methods are reviewed as reports arrive and on a periodic basis. Legal and policy pages are reviewed at least annually and carry the date of last revision.

Contact

Corrections, questions about these standards, and anything else go through the form on our contact page, which is the only route to us. Full guidance on what to include is on that page.