Türkiye · Diyanet İşleri Başkanlığı

Prayer times in Istanbul

Istanbul follows the Turkish Diyanet calculation, which differs slightly from the Muslim World League angles used across much of Europe. Türkiye stays on UTC+3 year-round with no daylight saving.

A typical day · Diyanet İşleri Başkanlığı

  • Fajr04:57
  • Sunrise06:27
  • Dhuhr13:08
  • Asr16:45
  • Maghrib19:39
  • Isha21:02

These are reference times for Istanbul, 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 Istanbul 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.

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 — often by the better part of an hour. If Asr looks wrong to you and everything else looks right, that setting is almost always the reason.

Getting the adhan in Istanbul

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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