Prayer times in Norway today

The times at the top of this page are for today, and the table lists every town. Prayer times follow the sun, so they shift by several minutes from one day to the next and differ from town to town: Fajr can come more than an hour earlier in Tromsø than in Kristiansand. Tap “Use my location” for the times exactly where you are.

They all start from the sun, but they use different angles for Fajr and Isha and different safety margins. The prayer calendar of the Islamic Council of Norway (Islamsk Råd Norge) puts dawn at 16° and dusk at 15° below the horizon. Many international apps use the Muslim World League’s 18° and 17°, which gives an earlier Fajr and a later Isha. The gap can be more than 20 minutes. You can pick either one here.

By default, 16° for Fajr and 15° for Isha, as in the Islamic Council of Norway’s calendar, with a few minutes’ margin on Dhuhr and Maghrib, as Norwegian mosques add. In summer, when the sun does not go that far down, a rule for northern latitudes takes over. During the midnight sun and the polar night, the times follow the nearest latitude where day and night can still be told apart. You can change all of this under “Calculation”.

In June the sun does not go far enough below the horizon for the usual angles to work in most of Norway. Fajr and Isha are then set with a rule that divides the night, so there is always time for both. Many people also pray Maghrib and Isha together in this period, because scholars have allowed it in times of real hardship. Ask the imam at your mosque what they follow.

When the sun does not set, or does not rise, there is no sunset or sunrise to count from. The most common answer is to follow the times of the nearest latitude where day and night can still be told apart, but with local midday. That is what this page does, and it tells you on the days it applies.

Asr begins when the shadow of an object is as long as the object itself (standard, used by the Shafi‘i, Maliki and Hanbali schools) or twice as long (Hanafi). The Hanafi time is therefore later: in Oslo by around 20 minutes in winter and by more than an hour in summer.

Fajr lasts until sunrise. Dhuhr lasts until Asr. Asr lasts until sunset, but should not be put off until the sun turns yellow. Maghrib lasts until Isha. Isha should be prayed before midnight, halfway between sunset and Fajr, and when there is real need it can be prayed right up to Fajr. What to do if you miss a prayer

The qibla, the direction of the Kaaba in Mecca, is south-east from everywhere in Norway: around 132° on the west coast, 139° in Oslo and up to 168° in eastern Finnmark, measured clockwise from north. Each town page shows the exact angle. How to find the qibla

It is free and needs no account. Your location is only used in your browser to work out the times and is never sent to us. The only thing saved is your choice under “Calculation”, in your own browser.