Prayer times in Brazil today

Muslims pray five times a day, and each prayer has its time by the sun: Fajr at dawn, Dhuhr just after midday, Asr in the afternoon, Maghrib at sunset and Isha once it is dark. Today’s times are at the top, and the table gives them for every city, each in its local time. They move by a few minutes every day and from one city to the next. Tap “Use my location” for the exact time where you are. The prayer times explained

Today’s Fajr is at the top of this page. Fajr begins with the first light of dawn and lasts until sunrise. In the South and Southeast it comes before 4:00 at the end of the year and after 5:00 in June and July. Near the equator, in Belém, Manaus or Fortaleza, it hardly moves all year. How to pray Fajr

Everyone starts from the sun, but not everyone uses the same angle for Fajr and Isha, and some mosques add a few minutes of margin. This page uses 18° for Fajr and 17° for Isha, the angles on the prayer-times page of FAMBRAS (the Federation of Muslim Associations of Brazil) and in the tables of several Brazilian mosques, so the difference is usually a minute or two. Shia mosques follow their own calendar (the Ja‘fari method), with Maghrib some 15 to 20 minutes after sunset; this page does not calculate it. If your mosque publishes its times, follow them: praying with your community matters more than the exact minute.

Both are defended by scholars. 18° for Fajr is the most common across the Muslim world and in Brazil. 15° gives a Fajr 12 to 17 minutes later and an Isha about 10 minutes earlier. Many people pray Fajr with their mosque but stop eating earlier in Ramadan, to be safe. You can change the method under “Calculation”.

Asr begins when an object’s shadow equals its length, plus its shadow at noon: that is the time of the Shafi‘i, Maliki and Hanbali schools, which most Muslims in Brazil follow. In the Hanafi school Asr begins when the shadow is twice the length, so later: today in São Paulo, 66 minutes later. If you follow the Hanafi school, pick “Hanafi” under “Calculation”.

For two reasons. Brazil is huge, and the sun rises much earlier on the northeast coast than in Acre. And it has four time zones: most of the country is on Brasília time, but Mato Grosso, Mato Grosso do Sul, Rondônia, Roraima and most of Amazonas are an hour behind, and Acre two. Each city here shows its local time. There is no daylight saving time, which Brazil dropped in 2019.

The qibla, the direction of the Kaaba in Mecca, is east-northeast from everywhere in Brazil: around 66° in Recife, 69° in São Paulo, 69° in Manaus and 72° in Porto Alegre, measured clockwise from north. Each city page shows the exact angle. Qibla finder How to find the qibla

The Friday prayer takes the place of Dhuhr, but each mosque sets the time of its sermon (khutbah) itself. It is usually at Dhuhr time or a little after. Check your mosque’s times. Jumu‘ah explained

The expected date is Monday 8 February 2027, by the Umm al-Qura calendar. It is confirmed the evening before, depending on the sighting of the moon, so it can move by a day. In Brazil Ramadan 2027 falls in summer, so the fasts are long in the South and shorter near the equator. Follow the announcement your mosque follows. Ramadan 2027 timetable for Brazil Your first Ramadan

Fajr has 2 rak‘at, Dhuhr 4, Asr 4, Maghrib 3 and Isha 4. These are the obligatory prayers. The voluntary (sunnah) prayers come before or after some of them. How many rak‘at each prayer has

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