Prayer Times

The five daily prayers

Salah is the second pillar of Islam and the first act a believer is asked about on the Day of Judgement. Its times are not arbitrary: each is fixed by the position of the sun, which is why a prayer timetable is really an astronomical table. Allah says: “Indeed, prayer has been decreed upon the believers a decree of specified times” (Qur'an 4:103).

• Fajr — from the true dawn until sunrise.
• Dhuhr — from just after the sun passes its zenith until Asr.
• Asr — from when an object's shadow reaches the length set by your madhab until sunset.
• Maghrib — from sunset until the twilight disappears.
• Isha — from the end of twilight until the middle of the night, and by necessity until Fajr.

Sunrise is listed because it closes the window for Fajr, not because it is a prayer. The three moments the Prophet ﷺ told us not to pray are sunrise, the sun's zenith, and sunset (Muslim 832).

Why two different Asr times?

This is the question the page exists to answer honestly. In the Hanafi school Asr begins when an object's shadow is twice its length; in the Shafi'i, Maliki and Hanbali schools it begins at one times its length. In practice that is close to an hour's difference, and it grows in higher latitudes and in winter.

Both positions are grounded in the sunnah and both are followed by hundreds of millions of Muslims. An app that silently picks one is not being accurate — it is being wrong for roughly half the world. Set the toggle to what your community follows and it will be remembered on this device.