Choose your city and the five daily prayers, plus the qibla bearing, are computed locally — nothing about your location is sent anywhere.
London
Fajr
04:09
Dhuhr
11:51
Asr
14:55
Maghrib
17:38
Isha
19:23
Qibla
119°
About the calculation
Times here use the Muslim World League (MWL) convention for the Fajr and Isha angles — 18° below the horizon for Fajr, 17° for Isha — the most widely used default worldwide and the one adopted by most national Islamic bodies outside a handful of countries with their own standard. Dhuhr, Asr and Maghrib follow directly from the sun's position and don't vary between conventions; it's specifically the two twilight prayers, Fajr and Isha, that different bodies define differently.
The disagreement is about how far below the horizon the sun must sit for true dawn and full night to have begun — a threshold no telescope settles, because it depends on atmospheric visibility judged historically by observation. That's why several conventions coexist rather than one being simply "correct":
Muslim World League (MWL) — 18° / 17°. Used across most of Europe, parts of Asia and North Africa; the default here.
ISNA (Islamic Society of North America) — 15° / 15°. Common across the US and Canada.
Umm al-Qura, Makkah — 18.5° Fajr, Isha fixed at 90 minutes after Maghrib (120 in Ramadan) rather than an angle. Used in Saudi Arabia.
Egyptian General Authority — 19.5° / 17.5°. Used across Egypt and parts of Africa and the Levant.
University of Islamic Sciences, Karachi — 18° / 18°. Common across Pakistan, Bangladesh, India and Afghanistan.
The gap between methods only ever affects Fajr and Isha — Dhuhr, Asr and Maghrib are unaffected — but how large it is depends almost entirely on your latitude. We measured it across eight cities: about 20 minutes in Mecca, 43 in Istanbul, and up to two hours in London, Stockholm and Reykjavík at the height of summer. Further north the angle becomes unreachable and a fallback rule replaces the method altogether. The full measurement is in why prayer time apps disagree. If your local mosque publishes a printed timetable, that’s the most authoritative source for your specific community — this page is a reliable default for travel, unfamiliar cities, or when no local timetable is available.
Why do prayer time apps show slightly different times for my city?
Most of the gap comes from Fajr and Isha, where different Islamic authorities use different sun-angle thresholds (commonly 15°–19.5°) for what counts as true dawn and full night. Dhuhr, Asr and Maghrib are determined directly by the sun's position and rarely differ between apps.
Which calculation method should I use?
If your local mosque or national Islamic authority publishes a timetable, follow that — it reflects the convention your community actually uses. Without a local reference, the Muslim World League method used on this page is a reliable, widely accepted default.
Do prayer times here use my exact location?
Times are calculated on your device from the city or coordinates you choose — nothing about your location is uploaded or stored on a server.
Why is Fajr so early or Isha so late in summer at high latitudes?
Near the polar circles in summer, the sun can stay too close to the horizon all night for it to ever reach the angle a strict calculation requires for Fajr or Isha. Calculation methods define fallback rules for these cases, which is why times in far-northern or far-southern cities can look unusual compared to cities nearer the equator.