Prayer Times

Prayer Times calculates the times of the five daily prayers, and the moments around them, for any place you choose. Once a location is set up it works entirely on your device, without an internet connection. It follows the calculation method and conventions you use, and each time can be adjusted to the minute to match your mosque's timetable.

The section is built for two kinds of reader. Anyone can open it and see at a glance which prayer is next and when it begins. A reader who wants to understand the times can go further: tap a prayer to see what defines it and why your time is what it is, or open the Sun, Sky and Hijri tabs for the sun's path through the day, twilight, the moon, upcoming Islamic dates and a crescent sighting forecast for your own location.

Opening Prayer Times

Open Prayer Times from the prayer card on the Home screen, or from Tools → Prayers. The first time you open it, the app guides you through setting up a location, because every time it shows depends on where you are, your time zone, and the method you follow.

The top of the screen shows the location in use — for example, Islamabad, Pakistan — so you always know which place the times are for. From there you can switch between saved locations, add a new one, look up a place without saving it, pick a date, and reach further options from the menu.

The screen has four tabs:

The Times View

The Times tab is the daily prayer screen. It shows the Hijri and Gregorian dates, the time zone in use, and the times of the day:

The current prayer's window is highlighted with a countdown, and passed and upcoming prayers are shown differently, so the state of the day is clear at a glance. Midnight and the Third of Night are included for anyone planning Qiyam, Tahajjud or du'a in the night, not only the five daily prayers.

A small dot under a prayer's name means a reminder is set for it. The calculation method, the Asr standard and the time zone stay visible beneath the times, so you always know how the times you are reading were produced.

Tap any row to open that moment's detail screen.

A Prayer, Explained

Each of the eight moments has a detail screen of its own, built around what defines that moment.

The window

A prayer is a span of time, not a single minute. The screen shows when the window begins, when it ends, how long it lasts and how much of it remains, with a bar that fills as time passes.

The sun, now

The sun's altitude, its direction and the current shadow ratio — the length of a shadow compared with the height of the object casting it — update every second. The shadow ratio is the measure Asr is defined by, and it can be checked with nothing more than a stick in the ground.

What defines this moment

Each moment is drawn in the way its definition requires:

Why this time

The method that produced the time, the angle in degrees, the Asr standard and the high-latitude rule, stated together. This is the place to look when your time differs from a printed timetable.

Across the next month

A line showing how this prayer's time moves over the next thirty days, with the overall change stated in minutes — useful for seeing how quickly Fajr is moving earlier in spring, or Maghrib later in summer.

The reminder

The reminder for this moment, with a switch to turn it on or off in place. See Prayer Reminders.

In the Qur'an and the hadith

The verses and narrations that name this hour, shown in your own Qur'an text and hadith collection with the typography you have chosen. Tap one to open it in place.

Prayer Reminders

Reminders for the five daily prayers are switched on when the app is installed. They follow the location and calculation settings described on this page, including your adjustments, so a reminder always matches the time you see.

Prayer reminders, reached from the Prayer Times screen, lists all eight moments in the order the day runs: Fajr, Sunrise, Dhuhr, Asr, Maghrib, Isha, Midnight and the Third of Night. Each row shows when its reminder will next arrive — including any offset you set, such as fifteen minutes before — with a switch to turn it on or off. Tapping a row opens its settings.

How reminders arrive — as a full-screen alarm, a loud or ordinary notification, or silently — their sounds, snooze, quiet hours and everything else are described in Reminders.

Locations

Prayer times are calculated for a location profile: a place, its time zone, and the calculation settings you follow there. You can keep several — home, work, university, a relative's city, Makkah, Madinah — and switch between them at any time. Each profile keeps its own method and adjustments, so a home profile and a travel profile can follow entirely different conventions.

A place can also be looked up temporarily without saving it. Temporary look-ups are not added to your saved locations, so you can check the times for as many places as you like, for travel planning or for family abroad, without filling your list.

The free plan includes up to five saved locations; Premium removes the limit. Saved locations can be renamed, and their calculation settings changed, at any time.

Adding a location takes two steps, Place and Calculation, followed by a review.

Place

Choose how to find the place:

• Precise location — your phone's current position. This is the most accurate choice when you are at the place itself.
• Search — by city, street, landmark or address.
• Coordinates — type the latitude and longitude, for somewhere you cannot search for by name.

One page then shows everything about the place together: its coordinates, its country and address where known, a label, and its time zone.

• The label is filled in from the place name, and can be changed to something personal such as Home, Office or Travel.
• Coordinates from your phone's position can be copied but not edited, so a profile always reflects the precision it was created with.

Time zone

Prayer times are shown in a time zone, and it matters which one. You can keep the zone your phone is set to, use the zone of the place itself, or choose any zone in the world.

The time zone list shows, for each zone, its name, the country and flag, its offset from GMT, the current time there, and whether it is day or night. It can be searched by country, offset, zone name or country code.

Choosing a zone other than your phone's is useful when planning for somewhere you are not — checking the times at your destination before you travel, or for relatives in another country — because the times are then shown in that place's own clock.

Calculation

The Calculation step sets how the times are worked out. Each setting carries a note explaining what it means for this particular place.

Method

The method is preselected to the usual choice for the country — shown as The usual choice in followed by the country — with its Fajr and Isha angles displayed. A method is a pair of sun angles with a name on it, so choose the one your mosque or local authority follows. See Calculation Methods.

Asr

Long summer nights

Far from the equator, in some seasons the sun does not go far enough below the horizon for Fajr and Isha to be calculated from their angles: twilight can last most of the night, or all of it. The Long summer nights rule decides where Fajr and Isha are placed on those days.

A sensible rule is preselected from the location's latitude, and the note beside the setting states whether your location needs it at all. At most latitudes the sun sets properly every night of the year, and the rule never comes into play.

Twilight (shafaq)

Whether Isha follows the disappearance of the red glow after sunset (Ahmer — the Shafi'i, Maliki and Hanbali view), of the white glow, which is later (Abyad — the Hanafi view), or of both (General). Only the Moonsighting Committee method uses this setting; with any other method the note says that it changes nothing.

Rounding

Adjustments

Offsets and rules that fit the times to your mosque. See Adjusting Times to Your Mosque.

Reset to this country's defaults returns every calculation setting to the usual choices for the location.

Review

Before saving, Review summarises the profile: the place and time zone, the method and standards, every adjustment in full — the everyday offsets that are not zero, and each named rule with the days it covers and what it changes — and any warnings from the order check. Tap Save to finish.

Calculation Methods

Prayer times are derived from the position of the sun. Fajr begins when the sun is a certain angle below the horizon before sunrise, and Isha when it reaches a certain angle below the horizon after sunset; some authorities instead define Isha as a fixed interval after Maghrib. Different regions and authorities use different angles, which is why the choice of method matters. The app includes eleven established methods:

A larger Fajr angle means an earlier Fajr, and a larger Isha angle a later Isha. Each method description in the app explains where it is used and how it defines the two times.

Setting the angles yourself

Set the angles myself lets you enter the Fajr and Isha angles directly, for a local authority that is not listed. Isha can be given either an angle or a gap in minutes after Maghrib — the Umm al-Qura and Qatar convention. The two cannot both apply: giving Isha a gap sets its angle aside, and setting the gap back to zero returns to the angle.

The method name follows the values. Angles that match a listed method show that method's name; any others are shown as Custom, and setting them back to a method's own values brings its name back. The screen never shows one method's name while calculating with another's angles.

Adjusting Times to Your Mosque

Calculation gives the astronomical time. A mosque's timetable often differs from it by a few minutes — Isha called ten minutes after the calculated moment all year, Fajr held back by five for the jama'ah, Dhuhr on Friday waiting for the khutbah — and sometimes by different amounts on different days. Adjustments let each location profile reflect that. They are set in the Adjustments section of the Calculation step, and each profile keeps its own.

Every day

Give any prayer an offset in minutes, applied every day. A positive value makes the time later and a negative value earlier. Fajr −3 and Isha +10, with the rest at zero, is an ordinary configuration and takes a few seconds to enter.

Sunrise can be offset too, since it closes the Fajr window.

On certain days

Local practice is not always the same every day, so on top of the everyday offsets a profile can carry rules that apply only on the days they cover. A rule replaces the everyday value for the prayers it names, on the days it covers, and leaves the rest of the profile as it is.

Each rule has a name — Friday Dhuhr, Summer Isha — and one of two conditions:

Named rules make the list read as a set of local conventions rather than a table of numbers. A rule can be switched off without deleting it, which suits seasonal rules you will use again next year.

One explanation for every time

Rules are checked in order, and the first matching rule applies; once one applies, the rest are not consulted. Rules are never added together, so every time shown has a single explanation: either the everyday offset, or one named rule you can point to.

The order check

As you enter adjustments, the app checks them against a full year of the location's solar times. If an adjustment would place two prayers out of order — Maghrib after Isha, for instance — or close a prayer's window entirely on some day, it names the prayers concerned and the date where it happens, so you can see exactly which number to look at.

The warnings appear while you edit and again on the review. They never prevent you from saving: the times are yours to set, and the check simply makes sure that a mistyped minus sign does not go unnoticed.

Clear all adjustments removes every offset and rule from the profile.

Choosing a Date

The date picker shows prayer times for any day, past or future, chosen by either calendar. It has three ways to choose:

Each works in Hijri or Gregorian. Checking the times for 10 Ramadan, 27 Ramadan, 9 Dhul-Hijjah or 10 Muharram does not require converting the date first: choose the Hijri date, confirm it, and the times for that day appear.

The same picker is used throughout the app wherever a date is chosen, including the Hijri Calendar and its date converter.

The Sun Tab

The Sun tab shows the prayer day through the movement of the sun, which is what every prayer time is ultimately measured by.

The sun's day

A chart of the sun's altitude across the day, with each prayer placed on the curve where its definition puts it:

• Fajr sits before sunrise, in the dawn twilight.
• Sunrise is where the sun reaches the visible horizon.
• Dhuhr is just after solar noon, the sun's highest point.
• Asr is on the descending side, where the shadows have lengthened.
• Maghrib is at sunset.
• Isha is later, in the evening twilight.

Bands behind the curve mark night and astronomical, nautical and civil twilight, so the sky conditions around each prayer can be seen as well as its time.

Twilight ladder

A live picture of the horizon and the depths of twilight beneath it, with the sun's current position marked:

The Fajr and Isha angles in your calculation settings are depths on this ladder: a method with an 18° Fajr places Fajr where the sun reaches the −18° line. Sunrise and sunset sit slightly below the horizon, at about −0.83°, because the atmosphere bends light near the horizon and lifts the sun's image by about 34 minutes of arc.

Solar almanac

A compact reference for the sun at your location on the chosen date. The examples are for Islamabad in early July.

Further values are available for readers who want them: the sun's right ascension, the Julian day and century, and local apparent sidereal time.

The Sky Tab

The Sky tab adds the moon to the picture.

Today's sky

A chart of the altitude of the sun and the moon through the day — the sun as a golden curve, the moon as a dashed one — with the current time marked. It shows at a glance when each rises and sets, when the sun is at its highest, and when the moon is above the horizon.

The moon

The moon's phase, drawn as it appears, with its name, the percentage illuminated and its age in days — for example, Last Quarter, 37% illuminated, 23.4 days old — and whether it is above the horizon now.

Beneath it:

• Moonrise and moonset for the day.
• The moon's distance from Earth, with the time its light takes to reach you — for example, 372,521 km, or 1.2 light-seconds.
• Its current direction and altitude, such as 115.1° ESE at +57.5°.
• The next new moon and full moon, with their dates and times.

Because the Hijri calendar is lunar, these explain where the current Islamic month stands and when the next one is likely to begin.

The Hijri Tab

The Hijri tab brings the Islamic calendar into the screen you open every day.

Today's Hijri date

The date — for example, 24 Muharram 1448 AH — with its place in the month (Day 24 of 29) and in the year (month 1 of 12), and a line showing how far the month has advanced.

Upcoming Islamic dates

The occasions ahead, each as a card with a countdown, its Hijri and Gregorian dates and a short description. For example:

The descriptions explain each occasion — that the White Days are the 13th, 14th and 15th of every Hijri month, for instance, and that fasting them is like fasting the whole month. Dates that depend on the moon are marked as subject to sighting.

Next crescent

A sighting forecast for the new crescent, calculated for your own coordinates for the first evenings after the new moon. Each evening is graded by the Yallop visibility test:

Each evening shows the best time to look and the measurements behind its grade:

For example, after a new moon at 02:44 PM on Tuesday 14 July 2026, the first evening is graded F (moon age 4.7 hours, lag 17 minutes, q −0.877) and the second, Wednesday 15 July, is graded A (moon age 29.0 hours, lag 61 minutes, q +0.325).

The start of each Hijri month is decided by the sighting authority you follow. The forecast describes what is astronomically likely; it does not replace a local announcement. The Hijri date shown in the app follows the Sighting adjustment in the Hijri Calendar settings, which moves it by up to three days either way to match your authority.

Choosing What Is Shown

The Sun, Sky and Hijri tabs are made of cards, and each card can be hidden. Open the menu and choose the card settings to keep only what you use. Some readers want nothing more than a clean list of times; others want the full almanac, the moon and the crescent forecast. Both are equally at home.

Prayer times are also available on your Home screen as widgets.

Working Offline

Once a location is set up, prayer times, the solar and lunar almanac, the Hijri dates and the crescent forecast are all calculated on your device. They need no internet connection, which makes them dependable every day, while travelling, and in places with weak coverage.

Your location is used on your device to calculate the times. Searching for a place by name uses the internet; the locations you save are kept on your device. See the Privacy Policy for more.

Tips

• Match your mosque first, then adjust. Choose the method your mosque or local authority follows, and use adjustments only for the minutes that remain.
• Name your rules for what they are — Friday Dhuhr, Summer Isha — so the list still makes sense next year.
• Use temporary look-ups when planning travel, and save only the places you return to.
• Use a place's own time zone when checking times for somewhere you are not.
• Hide the cards you do not use to keep the screen as simple as you like.

Common Questions

"My times differ from my mosque's timetable"

Answer: A difference of a few minutes usually comes from the method, the Asr standard, or the mosque's own practice.

• Open a prayer's detail screen and read Why this time to see what the app is using
• Choose the method your mosque follows in the location's Calculation settings
• Add everyday offsets, or a named rule, for the minutes that remain

"Why do Fajr and Isha differ between apps?"

Answer: Different methods use different angles below the horizon. A method with a 15° angle places Fajr later, and Isha earlier, than one with 18°. The twilight ladder on each prayer's detail screen shows your method's angle.

"Asr is later or earlier than I expected"

Answer: Check the Asr standard. The Hanafi standard begins Asr when a shadow is twice an object's height, which is later than the Shafi'i standard used by the other schools.

"Times in summer at a northern location"

Answer: Far from the equator, twilight can last most of a summer night. The Long summer nights rule decides where Fajr and Isha fall on those days; the note beside it says whether your location needs it.

"Checking the times for another city"

Answer: Look the place up without saving it, and choose its own time zone to see the times in its local clock.

Related

• Reminders — how prayer reminders arrive, and everything else they can do
• Hijri Calendar — the Islamic calendar, occasions, and the sighting adjustment
• Qibla Finder — the direction of the Kaaba from your location
• Home Widgets — prayer times on your Home screen
• Premium — unlimited saved locations