Prayer times

Get prayer times for your location

This page offers two different things. The calculator works out prayer start times from the sun’s position for a place you choose, on any date from 1 January 2020 to 31 December 2035. The published mosque calendars below the calculator show dated times copied from two Edmonton mosques’ official timetables. Use the calculator for a calculated reference. Use the published calendars, or your own mosque’s timetable, when you need the times a mosque actually published.

You don’t need to share your device location. Start the calculator in any of these ways:

• Search for a city. Type a name and choose one of the 107 city presets from the list. Some city names exist in more than one country, so check the country shown beside the name before you choose. A preset fills in the approximate city-centre coordinates and that city’s timezone, and the times are calculated as soon as you choose it.
• Enter a point. Type a latitude and longitude, choose the timezone that applies at that place, then select Calculate times.
• Use your device location. Your browser asks for permission only when you press the location button. Confirm the timezone, then select Calculate times. Your device’s own zone is offered for convenience, but it may not be the zone at that point.

Choose your settings. Pick a method profile, such as Moonsighting Committee (seasonal twilight) or Custom, then an Asr rule and, where it applies, a night rule. The next section explains each setting. If you are still filling in Custom settings, the times are cleared until those settings are complete. Finish them, then calculate again.

Check the result. The place, local date and timezone appear above the six rows. Under Calculation details, below the timetable, you can see the profile in effect and the built-in, manual and total adjustments for each row. Where they apply, the details also show the twilight type, where an Isha interval is counted from, the date window and whether it is active on the selected date. If you change a typed value or a calculation doesn’t complete, select Calculate times to run it again.

A city preset marks the approximate city centre, not your street. For a particular neighbourhood, enter its coordinates instead. The calculation runs in your browser. Read more about location privacy.

Published calendars are dated records, not live times. The viewer covers Al Rashid and Masjid Quba Edmonton from 1 June to 30 September 2026 only. It opens on today’s date in Edmonton. Any date outside the reviewed range, including today, shows no reviewed data rather than times from another year or calculated values. Select Open 15 July 2026 example to see a reviewed date, or choose any date in the range. The viewer needs no location permission.

Read the daily timetable

The timetable has six rows. Fajr, Dhuhr, Asr, Maghrib and Isha are the start times of the five daily prayers. Sunrise sits between Fajr and Dhuhr as a solar marker. It is not a prayer. Some timetables spell Dhuhr as Zuhr, and both names refer to the same prayer here.

The next-prayer countdown follows the five prayers only, so it skips sunrise. It uses the current day at the selected place, not on your device. If you are in Vancouver and looking at Istanbul, “Today” means today in Istanbul. If you pick another date to look ahead or back, the countdown pauses. Return to Today to resume it.

When a time falls after local midnight, its row carries a badge with the next calendar date. This mostly affects Isha in summer at higher latitudes. Shortly after midnight, the previous timetable’s Isha can still be the next prayer, and the countdown shows it. If that Isha and the new day’s Fajr fall in the same displayed minute, the countdown pauses rather than choosing between them. It also pauses when a day’s timetable is incomplete, or when adjustments make rows overlap or fall out of order.

Choose calculation settings

Prayer start times are calculated from published conventions. To compare like with like, check these settings against the convention your mosque uses:

• Method profile sets how Fajr and Isha are calculated. There are nine profiles. Most use sun angles for Fajr and Isha, or a fixed Isha interval after sunset. The FCNA Canada profile uses 13° for both, and the ISNA / North America profile uses 15° for both. They are separate profiles, so their Fajr and Isha times usually differ. On a short summer night, however, a night limit can bring them to the same minute.
• Moonsighting Committee (seasonal twilight) starts from an 18° angle. It then keeps Fajr and Isha within its own seasonal limits, which change through the year. A time it shows is therefore not always the moment the sun crosses 18°, and results can differ from a plain 18° profile. At 55°N and above, it first tries a one-seventh-of-the-night time before applying those limits. South of the equator, its seasonal dates are shifted and the 55°N step isn’t used. Its Isha also depends on Twilight type: General (mixed), which is the default, Ahmer (red) or Abyad (white). Twilight type is a separate choice from Asr. This profile adds 5 minutes to Dhuhr and 3 minutes to Maghrib. Because it uses its own limits, the night-rule setting is turned off for it. It is not a preset for either Edmonton mosque in the published calendars.
• Custom lets you set your own angles and choose an Isha method. The options are described below the list.
• Asr is either Standard or Hanafi. On the same date, Hanafi Asr starts later.
• Night rule sets a limit for Fajr, and for an angle-based Isha, on short nights. There are four choices: a share of the night based on the angle (the angle divided by 60, so 15° gives a quarter), the middle of the night, one-seventh and one-third. The night is measured from sunset on the timetable date to the following sunrise. Isha can be no later than the chosen share of that night after sunset. Fajr can be no earlier than the same length of time before that date’s sunrise. Because it is a limit, an angle time already inside it stays as it is. A fixed-interval Isha or an active date-window interval isn’t limited by the night rule, and Moonsighting Committee uses its own seasonal limits instead.
• Adjustments are minutes the profile adds itself, plus any you add by hand, up to 30 minutes either way per row. Calculation details shows the built-in, manual and total minutes for each row.

Custom Isha methods. With Custom, the Isha method can be one of these:

• Angle: Isha uses your angle and the night rule.
• Fixed interval: Isha is a set number of whole minutes, from 30 to 180, after your chosen starting point, every day.
• Interval on selected dates: from your first date to your last date, both included, the interval replaces the angle.
• Cap on selected dates: within those dates, Isha moves earlier only when the interval time is earlier than the angle or night-rule time. Otherwise that time is kept. The cap can’t create a time that is otherwise unavailable, for example at polar sites.

For an interval or a cap, Count interval from offers Unadjusted sunset, which is the default, or Maghrib with adjustments. If you choose Maghrib with adjustments, changing your Maghrib minutes also moves the start of the interval, and so moves Isha. In every other case, including profiles with a fixed Isha interval, adjusting Maghrib doesn’t move Isha. Your own Isha minutes are added last.

For the two date options, choose full Gregorian dates from 1 January 2020 to 31 December 2035. Both dates are included. Each Isha belongs to its timetable date, even if it falls after midnight. The range can cross into the next year, but it doesn’t repeat each year. Outside the range, Isha uses your angle and the night rule. Fajr always uses its angle and the night rule. These are your own settings, not any mosque’s policy.

When you choose a city, the tool preselects a starting profile unless you have already chosen one. It uses FCNA Canada for Canadian cities, ISNA / North America for US cities and Muslim World League elsewhere. Treat this as a starting point you can change. It does not tell you what every nearby mosque follows, and no profile carries a universal religious endorsement. For a reliable comparison, ask your mosque or local issuing body which convention it publishes, then match those values. For each profile’s exact values and how the profiles differ, see calculation methods and settings.

View and print a month

The month view builds a Gregorian calendar month for the place and settings you have selected.

1. Choose your place and settings, and check the timezone.
2. Open the month view and pick the month and year.
3. Select Print and use your browser’s print dialog.

The printout keeps everything you need to read it later. It shows the following:

• the place, timezone, month and year
• the method profile and the Asr choice
• the night rule, or Moonsighting Committee’s seasonal limits
• the twilight type, where it applies
• the adjustments
• for Custom, the Isha method, the interval, where the interval is counted from and the full date window

Each date also carries any next-day markers and unavailable labels. A Fajr or Isha time that wasn’t set by the plain angle is labelled with the rule that set it: Twilight rule limit, Seasonal twilight, 55°N latitude one-seventh, Fixed interval, Date-window interval or Date-window cap. A key on the sheet explains these labels. A month can include dates both inside and outside a date window, so check each Isha row’s label rather than assuming one rule covers the whole month. If you change a setting, print again so the sheet matches.

The month is generated on your device, and no location is sent to a prayer-time API to produce it. It is our calculated reference for start times. A mosque’s congregation schedule has to come from that mosque. For the two Edmonton mosques’ published 2026 schedules, including a monthly table and a CSV download for reviewed months, see published mosque calendars.

Prayer starts and congregation times

This tool calculates when each prayer time begins. Most mosques also publish congregation times, often called jamaah or iqamah, when the prayer is held together. The mosque sets those times. So if a mosque clock shows a later time, it may simply be showing congregation rather than the start.

The tool does not add an automatic congregation offset or a Friday prayer schedule, because neither can be worked out from the sun. Use your mosque’s own published timetable for those. If start times still don’t match after you compare the same column, see why prayer times may differ.

Example for Wednesday 15 July 2026, Edmonton local time. With the Edmonton preset, FCNA Canada angles (13° / 13°), Standard Asr, the default angle-based night rule and no manual adjustments, the calculator gives Dhuhr at 13:41. Masjid Quba Edmonton published its Dhuhr Adhaan at 13:45 and its Iqamah at 14:00 for that date. To check start times, compare 13:41 with the published Adhaan at 13:45. To join this congregation, plan to arrive before the Iqamah at 14:00.

To see the mosque row, open Published mosque calendars, select Masjid Quba Edmonton and press Open 15 July 2026 example. This is a historical example, so check the mosque’s current schedule on its official prayer times page.

Questions about this prayer-time tool

What if I don’t allow location access?

Everything else still works. You can search for a city or enter coordinates, and the times are calculated in exactly the same way. The published mosque calendars don’t use your location at all.

Which timezone is used for a point far from me?

The tool uses the timezone you choose or confirm for that point. City presets come with their own zone. For a typed point or your device location, you confirm the zone yourself. Your device’s zone is only a suggestion, because a remote point may be in a different zone. Daylight saving changes for the chosen zone are applied automatically.

Why are my times about an hour or a day off?

Check the timezone first. If most rows move by about an hour, the cause is often a wrong zone or a daylight-saving difference. If times seem a day off, check the selected date. Also check whether a time after midnight is being read without its date badge. With a Custom date window, an Isha after midnight still belongs to its timetable date. Start with these checks, though there can be other causes.

Why does a row say estimated or unavailable?

At some places and seasons, the sun never reaches the selected Fajr or Isha angle. Near the poles, it may not rise or set at all. When the night rule or Moonsighting Committee’s seasonal limits supply the time, the row carries a label saying what set it, such as Twilight rule limit, Seasonal twilight or 55°N latitude one-seventh. Treat these times as estimates rather than times when the sun reached the angle.

Sometimes the calculator can’t produce a time with your settings. For example, there may be no sunset or sunrise, or the sun may stay too close to the horizon to resolve a time. In that case, the row stays unavailable instead of showing a made-up value. Night rules and seasonal limits can estimate a time when only the angle is out of reach. But every rule measures from sunset and the following sunrise. So when either of these is missing, no night rule, seasonal limit or date-window cap can supply the time. The countdown then does not offer a next prayer from an incomplete day. Learn more about summer and high-latitude estimates.

Why did Isha change when I adjusted Maghrib?

This happens only with Custom, when an Isha interval is counted from Maghrib with adjustments. In that mode, Maghrib is the interval’s starting point, so moving Maghrib moves Isha. With the default Unadjusted sunset, and with every other profile, adjusting Maghrib leaves Isha where it is.

Can I see a mosque’s published times instead?

For two Edmonton mosques, yes, but only for dates that have been reviewed. The published mosque calendars viewer covers Al Rashid and Masjid Quba Edmonton from 1 June to 30 September 2026, which is 122 reviewed days for each mosque. The times are copied as published from each mosque’s official timetable: Al Rashid monthly prayer times and Masjid Quba prayer times. The viewer always shows the source link, the reviewed dates and the date the source was captured.

Adhaan (or sunrise) and iqamah times are listed separately. These are historical records, so the viewer has no countdown. Dates outside the reviewed range, including today, show no reviewed data. Gaps are never filled from another year or with calculated times. If a published value falls outside the expected prayer window, it is held back, and its cell says Check official timetable. The published times don’t reveal how either mosque works out its times, and no calculator profile is set up to match either mosque. For current times, use the mosque’s official timetable.

Can I find the Qibla for the same place?

Yes. After the times are calculated, use Find Qibla in the result. It opens the Qibla tool with the same selected point. Qibla direction is a separate task with its own method, explained in the Qibla section of the site.