SalahNowAzerbaijan prayer times
Daily and monthly prayer times for towns across Azerbaijan. The times come from a calculation tuned to the annual calendar of the Caucasus Muslims Board, and every row is labelled as calculated.
Scope of this claim
The app does not serve the Caucasus Muslims Board’s calendar itself; it calculates the times with angles chosen by comparison with that calendar. The comparison was not made across the whole country, so this page makes no 0-minute claim.
Cities
Cities are listed by population. A city that is missing has no entry in the prayer-times database yet.
Calculation and source
- Institution
- Caucasus Muslims Board
- Method
- Muslim World League base, angles tuned to the Azerbaijan calendar
- Fajr 16°, isha 15°, maghrib when the sun is 3.5° below the horizon.
- Asr
- Asr is shown at the Hanafi shadow ratio of two, which is what the Azerbaijan calendar prints. The shadow-one Asr can be selected in the app; the other five times stay where they are.
- Precaution minutes
- No extra precaution minutes beyond the tuned angles; personal minute adjustments start at zero.
- Time zone
- Azerbaijan does not observe daylight saving time, so the table never jumps by an hour. The prayer times still move with the sun through the year.
- Hijri calendar and crescent
- The start of Ramadan and both Eids is announced by the Caucasus Muslims Board. The Hijri date in the app is calculated and can differ from the announcement by a day.
Publishes the annual prayer calendar for Azerbaijan. The app tunes its calculation to this calendar but does not serve it.
Azerbaijan prayer times
A calculation tuned to the calendar
The Caucasus Muslims Board publishes a prayer calendar for Azerbaijan every year. The app does not read it line by line; it calculates the times from each town’s coordinates, but chooses the calculation’s angles by comparing them with the calendar. The standard Muslim World League values put fajr more than ten minutes early against this calendar, maghrib early and isha late, so the app uses 16 degrees for fajr and 15 degrees for isha. Because the difference grows and shrinks with the seasons, it is closed with angles rather than a fixed number of minutes. Even so, the page makes no 0-minute claim: the comparison was not made across the whole country, and every row is labelled as calculated.
Why maghrib comes after sunset
In the Azerbaijan calendar sunset and the maghrib adhan are separate columns: the adhan waits until the redness on the horizon has faded after the sun sets. This reflects the prevailing practice in the country, and the gap can reach a quarter of an hour depending on the season. The app ties maghrib to the sun reaching a set angle below the horizon, so maghrib in Azerbaijan looks noticeably later than in countries that take sunset itself as maghrib. If you prefer to follow your own mosque’s adhan for iftar, the per-prayer minute adjustment can move that row.
From Baku to Nakhchivan
The Caspian coast in the east and Qazax and Nakhchivan in the west are more than four degrees of longitude apart, which moves sunrise and sunset by close to twenty minutes. The difference in latitude between Quba, Qusar and Zaqatala in the north and Lankaran and Astara in the south separates the summer fajr and isha times as well. Shusha, Aghdam and Fuzuli in Karabakh and Ordubad and Sharur in Nakhchivan are also listed. Do not read Baku’s times as the times of the whole country; choose your own town or the nearest one listed.
Clock, Asr and Ramadan
Azerbaijan uses UTC+4 all year and does not change its clocks, so there is no seasonal jump in the table. Asr defaults to the shadow-two ratio because the Azerbaijan calendar prints it that way; the shadow-one Asr can be selected in the app. During Ramadan the same data produces the Ramadan timetable, with fajr as suhoor and maghrib as iftar.
Questions
Does the app show the Caucasus Muslims Board’s calendar?
Why is maghrib later than sunset?
Does Azerbaijan observe summer time?
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