SalahNowCanada prayer times
Canada has no published national prayer timetable, and the app calculates with a 15-degree convention rather than the 13 degrees the Fiqh Council of North America recommends for Canada. This page says so plainly, explains what the difference is worth in minutes, and shows what each city page does and does not claim.
Scope of this claim
Canada has no body that publishes a daily national prayer timetable; mosques and Islamic centres print their own. The app calculates Canadian times with the North America preset, fajr and isha at 15 degrees, with the Hanafi afternoon by default. The Fiqh Council of North America, whose guidance most Canadian mosque calendars follow, recommends 13 degrees for these latitudes, so the app’s fajr can fall several minutes later and its isha several minutes earlier than a calendar built on the Council’s recommendation. That gap is known, and the 15-degree setting is a deliberate choice rather than an oversight, which is why no zero-minute claim is printed on these pages. Every row still names its source, and the method and Asr setting can both be changed in the app.
Cities
Cities are listed by population. A city that is missing has no entry in the prayer-times database yet.
Calculation and source
- Institution
- No published national timetable
- Method
- ISNA / North America
- Fajr 15°, Isha 15° — a calculation, not a published table, and not the 13° the Fiqh Council recommends for this region.
- Asr
- These pages, and the app by default, calculate Asr for Canada with the Hanafi shadow ratio of two. Canadian mosque calendars differ: some print the standard Asr (a shadow ratio of one), some the Hanafi Asr, and some both, so check which Asr your mosque follows. In the app, you can switch to the standard Asr with a single setting (School of Thought); it moves only the afternoon prayer and leaves the other five times unchanged. The setting affects the app only: the pages on this site always show the Hanafi Asr.
- Precaution minutes
- None. The app adds no precaution minutes of its own; many Canadian mosque boards do add some.
- Time zone
- Most of Canada moves to daylight saving time on the second Sunday in March and back on the first Sunday in November. Alberta (Calgary, Edmonton) and British Columbia (Vancouver) no longer change back: from 1 November 2026 they keep their summer clock all year. Saskatchewan does not observe daylight saving time, so Regina keeps Central Standard Time all year. Each city page reads that city’s own zone, so the shift is already handled; what is not handled by a clock is latitude, which is the bigger issue in this country.
- Hijri calendar and crescent
- Ramadan and the two Eids are announced separately by regional councils and mosque networks. Some follow the Fiqh Council’s calculated calendar, others follow local or global sighting, and start dates can differ by a day within one city. The Hijri date shown in the app is calculated and may not match your mosque’s announcement.
The Fiqh Council issues calculation guidance for North America, including Canada, rather than a timetable. No federal or provincial body publishes prayer times, and Canadian mosques set their own boards.
Canada prayer times
Why these pages make no match claim
Everywhere else in this directory, a country page either names an institution whose published table the app serves, or names the calculation it uses and says that any calendar computed the same way will agree to the minute. Canada gets neither sentence, and the reason is specific. The Fiqh Council of North America recommends that fajr and isha be calculated at 13 degrees at these latitudes, and Canadian mosque calendars broadly follow that guidance. The app calculates Canadian cities with the North America preset, which uses 15 degrees, and keeps that setting deliberately. Those are two different conventions, so a claim that the app matches what Canadian mosques print would not survive a check; the honest thing to print is the difference itself.
What the angle is worth in minutes
The gap is not academic. A two-degree difference in the fajr angle is worth roughly eight to fifteen minutes in southern Ontario in spring and autumn, and considerably more as you go north or approach midsummer, because the sun is travelling at a shallow angle to the horizon and takes longer to cross each degree. The same arithmetic runs in reverse at isha. Dhuhr, asr, sunrise and maghrib are unaffected: those come from the sun’s position rather than from a twilight convention, and they are the same on any calendar computed for the same coordinates. So if your mosque board and this page disagree, look at which two times disagree before assuming something is broken.
High latitude is the Canadian problem
Canada is the northernmost country in this directory, and the further north a city sits the more the twilight convention decides the answer rather than merely adjusting it. In Edmonton at midsummer the sun never drops far enough below the horizon for an 18-degree fajr to occur at all, and even at 15 degrees the window between isha and fajr narrows to a couple of hours. Communities handle this in different ways — by fixing a proportion of the night, by taking the nearest latitude at which the angle is still reached, or by following a neighbouring city — and there is no single Canadian answer. A city page here reports what the calculation produces for that city; in the weeks around the solstice, your local mosque’s rule is the one to follow.
What each city page shows
Every city page carries today’s six times for that city’s own coordinates, the Hijri date, and a thirty-day table in which each row is labelled with its source. Because no Canadian institution’s table is integrated, those labels all read as calculated, and no zero-minute line appears anywhere on the page. Cities are listed by population, and the list reflects what the prayer-times database actually holds: if your city is missing it is because there is no entry for it yet. Greater Toronto, Greater Montreal and Metro Vancouver each appear as several separate municipal pages because that is how the database stores them, and the few minutes between, say, Mississauga and Markham are real rather than an artefact.
Questions
Why does this page not say the times match my mosque calendar?
Which method and Asr does the app use for Canadian cities?
Do the times change in Saskatchewan when the clocks go forward?
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