About MawaqitGo

MawaqitGo is a free service that gives Muslims accurate daily prayer times — Fajr, Sunrise, Dhuhr, Asr, Maghrib and Isha — along with the Qibla direction, for any city in the world. Our goal is simple: help people pray on time with numbers they can trust, presented in a calm, distraction-light interface.

Why we built it

Prayer times are astronomical, not arbitrary. Each prayer opens and closes at a precise moment tied to the position of the sun, so the times shift a little every day and differ from one city to the next. Many apps compute a single generic answer and present it everywhere. But mosques in different countries follow different, officially-recognised conventions — and in several countries the national religious authority publishes its own exact timetable that no generic formula can reproduce. We built MawaqitGo to respect that: to show, wherever possible, the same times your local community actually follows.

How we calculate prayer times

Accuracy is the whole point of this project. We use two complementary approaches, and we choose the most authoritative one available for your location.

1. Official published timetables

For countries whose religious authority publishes an official schedule, we serve those exact times — the same ones printed in local mosques — rather than a calculation. This currently includes:

• Türkiye — the official Diyanet İşleri Başkanlığı (Presidency of Religious Affairs) timetable, covering all 81 provinces.
• Indonesia — the official Kemenag (Ministry of Religious Affairs / Bimas Islam) schedule, covering all 34 provinces.
• Malaysia — the JAKIM (Department of Islamic Development Malaysia) timetable.
• Singapore — the MUIS (Islamic Religious Council of Singapore) timetable.
• United Kingdom — the London Unified Prayer Timetable.

These official schedules often include small adjustments — such as a safety margin (ihtiyat or temkit) added to certain prayers — that a purely astronomical calculation would miss. Because we mirror the published tables directly, our times for these countries match the authority to the minute.

2. Validated astronomical calculation

For everywhere else, we compute prayer times from the sun's position using the calculation method each country conventionally follows — for example the Muslim World League, Umm al-Qura (Saudi Arabia), the Egyptian General Authority, the University of Islamic Sciences in Karachi (South Asia), ISNA (North America) or Musulmans de France (UOIF) for France. Every one of our city pages is checked to agree with an established reference within about a minute, so you get a time that matches your community's method wherever you are.

What we cover

• Daily and monthly timetables for 150+ major cities, plus official coverage for entire countries.
• Pages available in 16 languages, so families can read the times in their own language.
• Qibla direction and distance to the Kaaba, calculated for each location.
• A seasonal Ramadan view with Suhoor and Iftar times.

A note on accuracy and responsibility

We work hard to be precise, but prayer times can legitimately vary by a minute or two between calculation engines, and communities sometimes follow a specific local convention. If a time on MawaqitGo differs meaningfully from your local mosque, we'd genuinely like to know — tell us your city and the method your community uses, and we'll refine our data. When it doubt, follow your local religious authority.

Who runs MawaqitGo

MawaqitGo is an independent project built and maintained by a small team that cares about getting this right for the global Muslim community. It is supported by unobtrusive advertising so the service can stay free for everyone. You can reach us any time on our contact page, or by email at support@mawaqitgo.net.