Muslims pray five times a day, and the right time changes with the sun, the season and wherever you happen to be standing. This free prayer times tool gives you today’s exact schedule for any city on Earth: Fajr at dawn, Dhuhr at midday, Asr in the afternoon, Maghrib just after sunset and Isha at night. Type a city and country, pick the calculation method your region follows, and the tool shows every time in that city’s local clock, today’s Hijri date, and a live countdown to the next prayer so you always know how long you have left.
How to use this prayer times tool
Type the city and country you want times for — “Cairo, Egypt”, “London, United Kingdom”, “Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia” — then choose a calculation method and press the button. The times come from the Aladhan prayer-times API, which computes them from the city’s coordinates and time zone using the method you selected. If you leave the method on Umm al-Qura, you get the times used in Makkah itself.
Why the calculation method matters
Fajr and Isha are defined by the sun’s angle below the horizon, and different authorities choose different angles. The Muslim World League uses 18° for Fajr and 17° for Isha. ISNA, used across North America, uses 15° for both. Umm al-Qura sets Isha a fixed 90 minutes after Maghrib (120 minutes in Ramadan). Turkey’s Diyanet and Egypt’s General Authority use their own conventions. None of these is “wrong” — they are regional standards, and the practical difference can be 30 minutes or more at high latitudes. The right choice is simply the method your local mosque or community follows, so match the tool to the timetable you already trust.
The five daily prayers, in order
Fajr is prayed before sunrise, at dawn. Dhuhr begins just after the sun passes its highest point. Asr falls in the mid-to-late afternoon, when an object’s shadow reaches a defined length. Maghrib starts the moment the sun has fully set. Isha begins when the twilight has disappeared from the sky. The table also shows Sunrise, which is not a prayer itself but marks the end of the Fajr window — a deadline worth knowing.
Reading the countdown
The countdown at the top runs on the entered city’s local time, not your device’s clock. If you check the times for a city in another country — for family travelling, or to plan a call around prayer breaks — the “next prayer in” figure is always relative to that city. After Isha, the countdown rolls over to tomorrow’s Fajr.
Common questions
Why do the times change every day? Because they follow the sun. Sunrise and sunset shift by a minute or two daily, faster in spring and autumn, and every prayer time moves with them.
What if my city is missing? The API resolves city names worldwide. Try the English spelling of the city name together with the country, and avoid abbreviations.
What about Ramadan? The same tool works: Fajr is your suhoor deadline (Imsak is conventionally ten minutes before it) and Maghrib is iftar. Set the method to the one your country uses during Ramadan — Umm al-Qura, for example, lengthens the Maghrib-to-Isha gap in the holy month.
Prayer times at extreme latitudes
Near the poles, the standard angle rules break down: in a Scandinavian summer the sun may never dip 18° below the horizon, so a literal Fajr would never arrive. Scholars answer this with estimation — using the times of the nearest moderate-latitude city, a fraction of the night, or the Makkah schedule. If you live far north or south, use this tool with the nearest city whose times your community adopts during the midnight-sun weeks, and follow your local mosque’s published timetable, which already encodes that decision. The API marks its high-latitude handling in each response, but community practice is the final word.
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