Get accurate daily prayer times for any city or GPS coordinates — Fajr, Sunrise, Dhuhr, Asr, Maghrib, and Isha — with a live countdown to the next Salah, your choice of calculation method, and the Shafi or Hanafi Asr setting.
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Daily prayer times are anchored to the sun's position rather than the clock, which is why they shift gradually through the year and vary by location. Fajr begins at true dawn, when the first light of morning twilight appears on the horizon. Dhuhr starts just after the sun crosses its highest point at solar noon. Asr begins once a vertical object's shadow reaches a set multiple of its own length. Maghrib follows sunset, and Isha starts once evening twilight fades from the sky. Because twilight brightness is judged differently by different astronomical and religious authorities, several recognized calculation methods exist, including the Muslim World League, Umm Al-Qura University in Makkah, the Egyptian General Authority of Survey, and the Islamic Society of North America, each using a slightly different Fajr and Isha twilight angle. The Asr time also differs by juristic school: the standard Shafi, Maliki, and Hanbali view sets it earlier than the Hanafi view. This tool retrieves live solar-based timings for your exact coordinates from the Aladhan calculation service, for whichever method and school you select above.
Knowing exactly when to pray becomes surprisingly tricky the moment you leave your home city. Travelers, students abroad, and anyone who has just moved to a new area quickly run into the same problem: two prayer-time apps on the same phone can show times that differ by several minutes, and neither one explains why. This calculator removes that confusion by letting you see, and choose, exactly which calculation method and juristic school produced the numbers on your screen, instead of trusting a single hidden default.
Each of the five daily prayers marks a distinct moment defined by the sun rather than by a fixed clock time. Fajr opens at the first trace of morning twilight, long before sunrise itself. Dhuhr begins once the sun has passed its highest point of the day. Asr arrives when a vertical object's shadow lengthens to a defined multiple of its height, a threshold that the Hanafi school sets later than the Shafi, Maliki, and Hanbali schools. Maghrib begins the instant the sun disappears below the horizon, and Isha begins once the last glow of evening twilight has faded completely.
The apparent disagreement between apps comes down to how each calculation authority defines the twilight angle used for Fajr and Isha, since twilight fades gradually rather than at a sharp instant. The Muslim World League, Umm Al-Qura University in Makkah, the Egyptian General Authority of Survey, the Islamic Society of North America, and several national authorities such as Turkey's Diyanet each publish their own angle, all defensible and all in active use across different regions. As a rule of thumb, using whichever method your local mosque or national Islamic authority follows will keep your schedule aligned with your community.
Beyond picking a method, this tool keeps a live, second-by-second countdown running to your next prayer, so you always know exactly how much time remains without doing any mental math or refreshing the page. This is especially useful while traveling, during Ramadan when precise Fajr and Maghrib timing matters for fasting, or simply as a standing reminder open in a browser tab throughout the day. Because timings depend on your exact coordinates and the current date, results are recalculated fresh every time you press Calculate, and remain reliable for any location worldwide, from major capital cities to remote coordinates far from the nearest town.
Each prayer time is tied to the sun's position for your exact coordinates and today's date: Fajr and Isha to specific morning and evening twilight angles, Dhuhr to solar noon, Asr to a shadow-length ratio, and Maghrib to sunset. This tool retrieves those live solar-based timings from the Aladhan calculation service.
If your local mosque or national Islamic authority publishes a specific method, choosing the matching option here keeps your schedule aligned with your community. Muslim World League and Umm Al-Qura, Makkah are the two most widely used defaults worldwide.
The standard setting, followed by the Shafi, Maliki, and Hanbali schools, marks Asr when a shadow equals one shadow-length beyond its noon length. The Hanafi school sets the threshold at two shadow-lengths, which pushes Asr later in the afternoon.
Most differences come from the twilight angle each calculation authority uses for Fajr and Isha, plus the Asr juristic school selected, and occasionally elevation or rounding settings. Selecting the same method and school as another app should match its result.
Yes. Prayer times depend on live solar calculations for today's exact date and your coordinates, fetched from an online calculation service. If the request fails, check your connection and press Calculate again, or consult your local mosque's timetable.