Prayer times in the UK 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 town. They move by a minute or two every day and from one town to the next: in June, Maghrib in Glasgow comes about 45 minutes after Maghrib in Norwich. Tap “Use my location” for the exact time where you are. The prayer times explained

Sunrise, Dhuhr, Asr and Maghrib are simple astronomy, and timetables differ on them only by a few minutes of safety margin. Fajr and Isha depend on the rule a timetable uses for dawn and dusk, and in the UK, where summer nights never get fully dark, those rules give very different answers. This page uses the Moonsighting Committee method, which comes within a few minutes of the London Unified Prayer Timetable. If your mosque publishes its own times, follow them: praying with your community matters more than the exact minute.

A shared timetable that several London mosques agreed on, including the East London Mosque and London Central Mosque, so that start times are the same across London. Its dawn and dusk times come from the observations of Hizbul Ulama UK, and sunrise, midday and sunset from HM Nautical Almanac Office, with a few minutes of margin. It is meant for London inside the M25. Each mosque still sets its own congregation (jamā‘ah) times.

Isha begins when the last light has left the sky. Around midsummer it never fully leaves: in London, from 23 May to 21 Jul, the sun does not get 18° below the horizon at all. Every timetable then needs a rule. The Moonsighting Committee method used here sets Isha a fixed time after sunset for the season, about 80 minutes in June in London. Other timetables use a seventh of the night, which in London gives a slightly earlier Isha, or the middle of the night, which gives a much later one. None of these is a mistake: they are different scholarly answers to a real problem.

Both are rules for nights when the usual angle never comes. With a seventh of the night, the night (sunset to sunrise) is cut into seven parts: Isha comes no later than the end of the first part, Fajr no earlier than the start of the last. With the middle of the night, Isha and Fajr are allowed to reach the midpoint of the night, so on the shortest nights they meet there. You can choose either under “Calculation” with fixed 18°.

Asr begins when an object’s shadow equals its length plus its midday shadow (Shafi‘i, Maliki and Hanbali schools, and two of Abu Hanifa’s students), or twice its length (the Hanafi school, which many UK mosques with South Asian roots follow). The Hanafi time is later, by about 25 minutes in winter and more than an hour in summer. Each city page shows both, and you can switch under “Calculation”.

Fajr lasts until sunrise, not until Dhuhr. Isha is best prayed before the middle of the night, halfway between sunset and Fajr, and when there is real need, right up to Fajr. Dhuhr lasts until Asr, Asr until sunset (without putting it off until the sun turns pale), and Maghrib until Isha. Each city page has a table of today’s windows. What to do if you miss a prayer

The qibla, the direction of the Kaaba in Mecca, is south-east from everywhere in the UK: around 119° in London, 118° in Birmingham, 118° in Manchester and 118° in Glasgow, 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, and it moves with the clocks: often around 1 pm in winter and 1:30 pm or later in summer. Some large mosques hold two. Check your mosque’s times. Jumu‘ah explained

The expected date is Monday 8 February 2027, by the astronomical calendar. It is confirmed the evening before, by the sighting of the moon, and UK mosques do not all follow the same announcement, so it can differ by a day. Follow the announcement your mosque follows. Your first Ramadan

Yes. Salah (also written salat) is the Arabic word for the prayer, and namaz is the word in Urdu, Bengali, Persian and Turkish. “Namaz times” and “salah times” are the same five times.

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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