Prayer Times & Qibla Guides
This section explains how this site computes what it shows you. It doesn't claim more accurate numbers than anyone else — it shows you the equation, the threshold and the decision behind every time and bearing, with worked examples and sources attributed to the bodies that publish them.
These guides exist because what confuses people is rarely the number itself — it's how it differs from another number they saw. Most of that difference has a simple geometric or institutional explanation, and nothing is wrong.
Prayer Times
How each time is derived from the sun's position, and why authorities disagree on the threshold.
Prayer Time Calculation Methods and Angles
What is actually being computed, what a "Fajr angle" means, and the difference between an angle and a fixed interval. Includes the table of all seventeen methods implemented here with their angles, the precautionary minutes some authorities publish, and how Asr is derived from shadow length.
Read the guideWhy Prayer Times Differ Between Apps and Websites
Five common causes, ordered from largest effect to smallest: the angle, official precautionary minutes, coordinates, time zone and DST, and rounding. Then the high-latitude case, where the gap can reach two hours — and a checklist for comparing two sources fairly.
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Qibla Direction
The difference between a geometrically computed bearing and what your phone's compass points at.
How Qibla Direction Is Calculated
The Qibla is a direction on a sphere, not a line on a flat map — which is why the results defy intuition. The formula used, the Kaaba coordinates, how distance is computed, and why the compass needle does not always land on the computed number.
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How these guides are written
Every figure on these pages comes from one of two places: this site's own code, or a calculation run through the same engine that produces the times you see — with the date, coordinates and method named explicitly in each example rather than quoted as general figures.
Where we cite an angle or a minute adjustment used by an official body, we attribute it and list the source at the foot of each guide. Where what this site applies differs from what that body publishes, we say so plainly instead of hiding it.
Matters of jurisprudence — choosing an Asr definition, or how much deviation from the Qibla is acceptable — are presented as differences, not settled. Those are referred to qualified scholars or the authority a reader follows.