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Brunei’s Ministry of Religious Affairs publishes the official waktu sembahyang. The app does not use that table — this page explains what it calculates instead and how close a stand-in it is.
Scope of this claim
The Ministry of Religious Affairs of Brunei (Kementerian Hal Ehwal Ugama) publishes the official waktu sembahyang for the country, together with its own published district offsets. The app does not use that table and calculates with the neighbouring Singapore convention instead, so the times on these pages may differ from the Ministry’s published minutes. The size of that difference has not been measured here. No zero-minute claim is made for Brunei.
Cities
Cities are listed by population. A city that is missing has no entry in the prayer-times database yet.
Calculation and source
- Institution
- Ministry of Religious Affairs, Brunei
- Method
- Singapore convention
- Subuh 20°, Isyak 18° — a calculation, not Brunei’s published table.
- Asr
- Asar uses the shadow ratio of one, which is the practice in Brunei; the ratio of two is selectable in the app and moves only Asar.
- Precaution minutes
- None beyond the preset’s own built-in Zohor margin. The app adds no precaution minutes of its own.
- Time zone
- Brunei does not observe daylight saving. At around four to five degrees north the country sits close to the equator, so the times move very little across the year — a few dozen minutes between the extremes rather than the hours seen at higher latitudes.
- Hijri calendar and crescent
- The Ministry announces the start of Ramadan and the two Eids for Brunei. The Hijri date shown in the app is calculated and can sit a day away from the Ministry’s announcement.
Publishes the official national waktu sembahyang with district offsets for Kuala Belait, Tutong and Temburong, and announces the Hijri dates. The app does not use its table.
Brunei prayer times
Brunei publishes its own waktu sembahyang
The Ministry of Religious Affairs publishes the official prayer timetable for Brunei, together with the small district offsets that adjust the reference times for Kuala Belait, Tutong and Temburong. It is a complete national system for a compact country, and it is the table Bruneian mosques work from. The app does not reproduce it: these pages carry a calculated time and a label that says calculated, rather than presenting a close approximation as if it were the Ministry’s own publication.
Why the Singapore convention is used
Brunei sits on the same island as Sabah and Sarawak and only a few degrees from Singapore, and the region shares a broadly similar approach: a high Subuh angle of twenty degrees and an Isyak angle of eighteen, with the shadow ratio of one for Asar. The Singapore convention is therefore a far better stand-in for Brunei than a generic world preset would be. It remains a stand-in. The difference between it and the Ministry’s published minutes has not been measured here, and no claim is made about the size of that gap.
A country close to the equator
Brunei lies between roughly four and five degrees north, which makes its prayer times unusually stable. Across a full year Subuh and Maghrib each drift by only a few dozen minutes, and there is no high-latitude problem of the kind that complicates northern timetables. For readers, this means a Bruneian card stays close to correct for a long time; it also means a calculation error would not announce itself through an obviously wrong season, which is one more reason to check the Ministry’s published table for anything official.
Which places have a page
The Bruneian places listed here are the ones in the app’s location database, and nothing is invented to lengthen the list. The country is small, so if your village is not listed, the nearest listed place is only minutes away in solar time — but check it once against your mosque’s card, because a few minutes still matter at Maghrib during Ramadan.
Questions
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