United Arab Emirates · UAE General Authority of Islamic Affairs
Prayer times in Abu Dhabi
The national timetable is issued from Abu Dhabi, and the parameters it sets are the ones the whole country follows. The capital lies a degree west of Dubai, so its prayers land about four minutes later on the same clock.
A typical day · UAE General Authority of Islamic Affairs
- Fajr04:51
- Sunrise06:05
- Dhuhr12:21
- Asr15:48
- Maghrib18:31
- Isha19:45
These are reference times for Abu Dhabi, generated when this page was published. For times that update live and follow your own method and madhab, use the calculator on the home page or the app.
Why timetables disagree
Fajr and Isha depend on how far the sun sits below the horizon, and different authorities settled on different angles. A few minutes of variation between two timetables for Abu Dhabi is normal rather than an error — it usually means they use different parameters, not that one is wrong. Mozzi defaults to UAE General Authority of Islamic Affairs here and lets you change it.
Across the year, Fajr in Abu Dhabi ranges from about 04:04 at its earliest to 05:47 at its latest. That spread is the single biggest reason a printed timetable goes stale.
Asr, and the two calculations
Asr is the one prayer where the difference is large rather than marginal. The Hanafi calculation places it noticeably later than the Shafiʿi, Maliki and Hanbali one — in Abu Dhabi today, about 59 minutes later. If Asr looks wrong to you and everything else looks right, that setting is almost always the reason.
Getting the adhan in Abu Dhabi
Mozzi plays a real call to prayer at each time rather than a notification chime, and on iOS 26 it can sound through Silent mode and Focus the way an alarm does. Times are calculated on your phone, so it keeps working with no signal.
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