Prayer Times in Beirut, Lebanon Today

Beirut prayer times today — a capital between sea and mountains

Beirut sits on a narrow coastal shelf backed by the Lebanon Mountains, a geography that packs a dense urban fabric into a strip barely twenty kilometres long from the Raouche rocks to the airport road. Beirut prayer times follow the sun over this specific Mediterranean latitude — roughly 33.89°N — calculated from the city's own coordinates rather than reused from Tripoli to the north or Sidon to the south, so a resident checking Fajr from a Hamra apartment, a shopkeeper in Bourj Hammoud, and a student in Ras Beirut all share one authoritative daily table.

Searches for lebanon prayer times and beirut prayer times climb at the start of each month and surge hardest during Ramadan, when households from Achrafieh to Dahieh plan Suhoor and Iftar around the same five calculated moments. As Lebanon's political, financial, and cultural centre, Beirut's schedule is also the informal reference many Lebanese abroad check when calling family back home.

Fajr and Isha under the Egyptian Survey Authority angles

Fajr prayer time Beirut is fixed when the sun sits 19.5 degrees below the horizon, and Isha prayer time Beirut begins at a 17.5-degree angle — the twin figures set by Egypt's General Authority of Survey and applied on this page as method 5, rather than the Muslim World League's 18/17-degree pair used in some neighbouring countries. All times run on Asia/Beirut, which shifts between UTC+2 in winter and UTC+3 during Lebanon's daylight saving period; this table always reflects whichever offset is currently in force, so there is no need to adjust by hand when clocks change.

Dhuhr and Asr through a working Mediterranean capital

Dhuhr breaks the day for staff in Downtown's rebuilt Solidere quarter and for merchants in the old souks near the Omari Mosque, while Asr prayer time Beirut tends to land as traffic thickens along the Charles Helou highway and through the Dora interchange. Office towers in Sodeco and Sassine Square keep musallas on this same schedule, so the Asr posted in a bank lobby should match the one on this page to the minute.

Why this page uses the Egyptian General Authority method

Lebanon has no single nationally published prayer-angle standard comparable to Egypt's Survey Authority or Jordan's Ministry of Awqaf, and mosques across Beirut may follow slightly different local traditions depending on their community. This platform applies the Egyptian General Authority of Survey calculation — Fajr 19.5°, Isha 17.5° — consistently across all Lebanese cities listed here, giving residents one reliable reference regardless of which app defaults to Muslim World League or Umm Al-Qura angles. The Egyptian method tends to call Fajr a few minutes later and Isha slightly earlier than an eighteen-degree standard, a difference worth knowing before setting a Suhoor alarm.

Jumu'ah at Mohammad Al-Amin and the mosques of Beirut

Jummah prayer time Beirut draws large Friday crowds to the Mohammad Al-Amin Mosque beside Martyrs' Square, its blue domes and ochre stone a landmark visible across Downtown, as well as to the historic Omari Mosque in the old city and neighbourhood jami' mosques in Tarik Jdideh, Verdun, and Ras Beirut. Khutbah length and iqama timing vary from imam to imam, but the adhan itself matches this page's calculated time across every district.

Ramadan from the Corniche to Gemmayze

Beirut keeps a Ramadan rhythm shaped by the sea: families break fast along the Corniche as Maghrib prayer time Beirut arrives over the water, while Suhoor tables in Gemmayze and Mar Mikhael cafés close the moment Fajr prayer time Beirut is called. Charitable iftar tents appear outside mosques in Bourj al-Barajneh and Tariq al-Jdideh, and the monthly Beirut calendar is worth bookmarking early in the month, since Maghrib shifts by several minutes across Ramadan's thirty days.

Qibla direction and travel across Lebanon

From Beirut, the Qibla points south-east toward Makkah; our Qibla direction tool helps confirm the bearing indoors, where high-rise apartments along the Corniche can distort a phone compass. Travellers heading north should compare with Tripoli prayer times — Lebanon's northern city, not Libya's capital — while those continuing south can check Sidon prayer times or Zahle prayer times in the Bekaa. The Hijri calendar complements this page for tracking Ramadan and Eid dates.

Frequently asked questions about Beirut prayer times

Are Hamra and Ashrafieh times the same as Downtown?

Yes for practical purposes — Beirut's compact geography means Fajr and Maghrib differ by well under a minute across the capital's main districts. Any gap at your local mosque is almost always iqama practice, not a different calculation.

Why does my app show a different Isha than this page?

Most apps default to the Muslim World League's 18/17-degree pair or Umm Al-Qura rather than Egypt's 19.5/17.5-degree Survey Authority angles used here — both are valid scholarly choices, but they rarely align exactly.

Does Beirut change clocks for daylight saving?

Lebanon typically observes daylight saving under Asia/Beirut, moving to UTC+3 for part of the year; this page's times already account for whichever offset currently applies.

Raouche, the Pigeon Rocks, and a skyline of minarets

Evening strollers along the Raouche Corniche pause briefly around Maghrib as the adhan carries from mosques in Manara and Ras Beirut, the Pigeon Rocks standing offshore in the last light. Traders in Bourj Hammoud's Armenian quarter open their shops not long after Fajr, taking a short break around Dhuhr before the afternoon rush of shoppers looking for spices and textiles. Beirut's reputation as a city that never quite sleeps means many restaurants and cafés in Gemmayze quiet only briefly for Isha before the evening fills again — yet the five daily prayers remain the fixed anchor around which the rest of the day turns, from the port workers at dawn to the last diners along the waterfront after Tarawih in Ramadan.