Denmark prayer times

Denmark is unusual: its mosques agreed on one timetable and adopted an existing published table as the national reference. This page explains what that means for the times you see.

Matches the Diyanet timetable · 0-minute difference

Scope of this claim

For the selected settlement and day in the published table, with personal minute adjustments set to zero.

Last verified: September 22, 2026

Prayer times in major cities

Copenhagen Aalborg Kolding Roskilde Helsingor

Aarhus Esbjerg Horsens Silkeborg Naestved

Odense Randers Vejle Herning Viborg

Cities

Cities are listed by population. A city that is missing has no entry in the prayer-times database yet.

Calculation and source

Institution: The Danish prayer-time committee
Method: Diyanet (adopted as the Danish reference); The published table Diyanet prints for 83 Danish settlements; Fajr 18° / Isha 17°.
Asr: The standard shadow ratio of one is the default for Denmark. A full-year comparison against the adopted national table put the shadow-one afternoon within four minutes on average, while the Hanafi ratio was nearly forty-seven minutes away and never matched exactly.
Precaution minutes: None. The app adds no precaution minutes of its own.
Time zone: Denmark follows the European daylight saving schedule. The country is compact east to west, so the astronomical difference between Esbjerg and Copenhagen is only about eight minutes, but it sits far enough north — around 55 to 57 degrees — for the summer nights to be short and for the timetable to compress sharply in June.
Hijri calendar and crescent: The same cooperation that produced the common timetable has made Ramadan and Eid announcements more uniform than they once were, but they are still made by individual communities rather than by a single national body.

A committee formed by Denmark’s mosque communities to settle the long-running disagreement over fajr and isha; it adopted the Diyanet table as the common Danish reference rather than producing a new one.

The Danish prayer-time committee

Adopting a table rather than writing one

Denmark’s Muslim communities faced the problem every northern European country faces: several calendars in circulation, each using different fajr and isha angles, and a summer in which those differences grow to half an hour or more. Rather than commissioning a new Danish calculation, Det Faglige Bedetidsudvalg examined the tables already in use and adopted one of them as the shared Danish reference. That is a meaningful distinction. It means that in Denmark, unlike in Germany or Britain, the table this app serves is not merely the most common one — it is the one the country’s own committee designated.

Short nights and a compressed summer timetable

Copenhagen sits at about 55.7 degrees north and Aalborg at 57. In late June the sun there dips only a little over ten degrees below the horizon at midnight, which is not enough for an eighteen-degree fajr to occur at all on the astronomical definition. Northern European tables therefore need a rule for the weeks around midsummer, and the choice of rule is where calendars diverge most. Through the rest of the year the Danish table behaves normally, and around the equinoxes almost every calendar in circulation agrees to within a few minutes.

The afternoon prayer, measured rather than assumed

For years the app assumed that Denmark, like other countries with large Turkish and South Asian communities, would follow the Hanafi afternoon time at a shadow ratio of two. A full-year comparison against the adopted Danish table disproved that: the shadow-one column sat within about four minutes on average across 365 days, while the shadow-two column was some forty-seven minutes away and never matched exactly. The default was corrected accordingly. This page prints the shadow-one afternoon because that is what the Danish reference table prints; the Hanafi time remains available as a setting for anyone who follows it.

What the claim covers

The claim is that for a Danish settlement and day in the published table, the six times shown here are identical to that table, with no minutes added. Each Danish city page was checked against the institution’s own published row and all six times matched in all thirty cities. The app is independent and is not a product of any Danish body or of the Presidency of Religious Affairs; what it does is serve the table Denmark’s own committee settled on.

Questions

Why does a Turkish institution publish Denmark’s prayer times?

It publishes a calculated table for Danish settlements, as it does for many countries. What makes Denmark different is that the Danish prayer-time committee reviewed the options and adopted that table as the common national reference. The decision was Danish.

Which afternoon time does the app use in Denmark?

The standard shadow ratio of one, because that is what the adopted Danish table prints. This was verified against a full year of the table rather than assumed from the background of the community.

What happens to fajr and isha in June?

At Danish latitudes the eighteen-degree angle is not reached for several weeks around midsummer, so the table applies a substitute rule for those days. Different calendars use different rules, which is why June is where calendars disagree most and March and September are where they agree.

Sources

Diyanet İşleri Başkanlığı — prayer times

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