Guides
Prayer Time Guides
Clear, practical explanations of Islamic prayer — how the times work, the calculation methods, the Qibla and more. For daily timetables, browse prayer times by city.
- The Five Daily Prayers in Islam, ExplainedA clear guide to the five daily prayers — Fajr, Dhuhr, Asr, Maghrib and Isha — including the time window and meaning of each.
- How Are Islamic Prayer Times Calculated?How prayer times are worked out from the sun's position — dawn and dusk twilight angles, solar noon, shadow length and sunset — and why they differ by place and date.
- Prayer Time Calculation Methods ComparedThe main prayer-time calculation methods — Muslim World League, ISNA, Umm al-Qura, Egyptian, Karachi and Kemenag — their Fajr/Isha angles and who uses them.
- How to Find the Qibla DirectionWhat the Qibla is and three reliable ways to find it — using a compass, the sun, or an app — so you can face the Kaaba in Mecca for prayer.
- Fajr and Isha at High Latitudes: The Twilight ProblemWhy Fajr and Isha are hard to define in far-northern and far-southern cities during summer, and the methods used to estimate them.