Prayer Times in Aleppo, Syria Today

The widest annual swing in Syria

Aleppo sits at about 36.20 degrees north and 37.13 degrees east, making it the northernmost city on Syria's list by a clear margin. Damascus is nearly three degrees further south. Latitude is what decides how much daylight changes across the year, and Aleppo's northern position gives it the largest spread in the country.

In concrete terms, daylight here runs from roughly nine and a half hours at the winter solstice to close to fifteen at the summer one. Damascus, further south, has a noticeably tighter range. The practical result is that a summer Ramadan is a longer fasting day in Aleppo than in the capital, and a winter one is shorter — a difference of real minutes, not a rhetorical flourish.

Longitude, and the smaller of the two effects

Aleppo is also the easternmost of Syria's larger cities on this site, at 37.13 degrees east. Against Latakia on the coast, at 35.79 east, that is 1.34 degrees, worth a little over five minutes. Every prayer in Aleppo opens about five minutes before the corresponding one in Latakia.

Against Damascus the longitude gap is smaller still, about three and a half minutes. So between the two largest Syrian cities it is latitude, not longitude, that does the work — the tables diverge most in midsummer and midwinter and converge near the equinoxes.

The calculation applied nationwide

Syria uses the Egyptian General Authority of Survey parameters: Fajr at 19.5 degrees of solar depression, Isha at 17.5. These are national settings and Aleppo's coordinates do not alter them. Background is on the Syria prayer times hub.

Since 2022 the country has also stayed on UTC+3 year round, having previously moved its clocks seasonally. That change lifted every winter time by one hour relative to older printed timetables and left summer untouched. Tables from before that date are still circulating and are worth checking against.

The two Asr thresholds, and which is published here

Both Hanafi and Shafi'i practice are long established in Aleppo. The two differ on Asr: the Shafi'i threshold opens the window when a vertical object's shadow has lengthened by one additional object-height past its midday minimum, while the Hanafi threshold requires a second such length and arrives roughly forty to sixty minutes later.

This table publishes the first of those, which is the standard the regional convention assumes. Anyone following the Hanafi position will need to set their app accordingly; the difference is a setting rather than a defect in either the app or the mosque.

A city with a very long record of timekeeping

Aleppo is among the oldest continuously inhabited cities on earth, and the Great Mosque of Aleppo has stood in the old city since the Umayyad period. Prayer here was timed by shadow and twilight for many centuries before anyone computed a table.

The modern arithmetic does not replace those definitions. It applies them — the same shadow ratio, the same solar depressions — in a form that can be published in advance and does not depend on a clear sky or an unobstructed view.

Sunrise, and what it actually bounds

Sunrise is listed to mark the close of the Fajr window rather than to signal a prayer. It is regularly mistaken for the start of the fast during Ramadan; the fast begins at Fajr, which under a 19.5-degree dawn angle comes a substantial while before the sun appears.

The evening gap does not stay the same

Because Isha is defined by an angle rather than by a set number of minutes after sunset, the interval between Maghrib and Isha stretches and contracts through the year. At Aleppo's latitude that variation is more pronounced than anywhere else in Syria.

Anything routinely scheduled into that gap — a meal, a class, a journey across the city — will not hold the same shape in June as it does in December. It is worth re-checking rather than assuming.

Ramadan in the north

Fajr ends the pre-dawn meal and Maghrib opens the fast. Both drift across the thirty days, and at this latitude they drift further than they do further south, so the monthly view is genuinely more useful here than the daily one.

Many mosques call an imsak some minutes before the calculated Fajr as a margin of caution. What appears above is the astronomical time; whether to keep a margin on top of it is a matter for you and your mosque.

Friday in the second city

Jumu'ah stands in place of Dhuhr for those who attend, timed from the Dhuhr entry in the table. How long after the call the khutbah begins is decided by each mosque. Those not attending pray Dhuhr at the listed time in the usual way.

Establishing the direction, and further reading

The Qibla direction tool works out the bearing from the coordinates you supply, which is more reliable than carrying one over from another city or another building. Ramadan and Eid dates are on the Hijri calendar, and the same table in Arabic is at Arabic Aleppo prayer times. Within Syria, compare Damascus prayer times in the south and Latakia prayer times on the coast.