Türkiye · Diyanet İşleri Başkanlığı
Prayer times in Ankara
Ankara is inland and a degree south of Istanbul, and sits further east, so its prayers land several minutes earlier on the same national clock. Diyanet publishes for both, which is the timetable most mosques here follow.
A typical day · Diyanet İşleri Başkanlığı
- Fajr04:56
- Sunrise06:21
- Dhuhr12:49
- Asr16:19
- Maghrib19:06
- Isha20:26
These are reference times for Ankara, 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 Ankara is normal rather than an error — it usually means they use different parameters, not that one is wrong. Mozzi defaults to Diyanet İşleri Başkanlığı here and lets you change it.
Across the year, Fajr in Ankara ranges from about 03:17 at its earliest to 06:33 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 Ankara today, about 55 minutes later. If Asr looks wrong to you and everything else looks right, that setting is almost always the reason.
Getting the adhan in Ankara
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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