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Prayer times in Riyadh
Riyadh lies nearly seven degrees east of Makkah while sharing its timezone, so every prayer falls close to half an hour earlier on the clock. Two Saudi cities on the same timetable are not a mistake — they are that far apart.
A typical day · Umm al-Qura University
- Fajr04:20
- Sunrise05:39
- Dhuhr11:49
- Asr15:16
- Maghrib17:58
- Isha19:28
These are reference times for Riyadh, 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 Riyadh is normal rather than an error — it usually means they use different parameters, not that one is wrong. Mozzi defaults to Umm al-Qura University here and lets you change it.
Across the year, Fajr in Riyadh ranges from about 03:32 at its earliest to 05:17 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 Riyadh 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 Riyadh
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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