SalahNowFinland prayer times
Finland has no national prayer-time authority and a summer in which the usual definitions of fajr and isha stop working. This page explains both.
Matches the Diyanet timetable · 0-minute difference
Scope of this claim
For the selected settlement and day in the timetable Diyanet publishes for Finland, with personal minute adjustments set to zero, and outside the midsummer weeks when the fajr and isha angles are not reached at all.
Last verified: September 22, 2026
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 national authority
- Method
- Diyanet
- The timetable Diyanet publishes for 71 Finnish settlements; the calculation fallback uses Fajr 18° / Isha 17°.
- Asr
- The app’s default afternoon time for Finland is the Hanafi shadow ratio of two. Unlike Sweden, Denmark and Norway, this has not been measured against a Finnish congregation’s own calendar, so it is a carried-over default rather than a verified one; the setting can be changed in the app.
- Precaution minutes
- None. The app adds no precaution minutes of its own.
- Time zone
- Finland follows the European daylight saving schedule but sits one hour ahead of Sweden. The country runs from about 60 degrees north at Helsinki to beyond 70 in Lapland, so the length of the summer night changes dramatically from south to north.
- Hijri calendar and crescent
- Ramadan and the two Eids are announced by the individual Finnish congregations rather than by one national body, and dates can differ by a day. The Hijri date in the app is calculated.
SINE is an umbrella council for Finnish Muslim communities; it publishes no prayer timetable, and congregations such as the Finnish Islamic Congregation and the Helsinki communities use calendars of their own.
Finland prayer times
Where the definitions stop working
A prayer timetable rests on a simple idea: fajr begins when the sun is a set number of degrees below the horizon before dawn, and isha when it reaches the same depth after dusk. Above roughly 60 degrees north that idea breaks down for part of the year. In Helsinki, at 60.2 degrees, the eighteen-degree threshold is not reached for several weeks around midsummer. In Oulu, at 65, the gap is wider. In Rovaniemi, on the Arctic Circle, the sun does not set at all for part of June. Every calendar for Finland must therefore substitute a rule for those weeks — a fixed interval after maghrib, an interpolation from the last day the angle occurred, or the times of a reference city further south — and different calendars choose differently. This is the single most important thing to understand about Finnish prayer times, and it is why the claim on this page is explicitly limited to the rest of the year.
Which table the app serves
The Presidency of Religious Affairs publishes a timetable for 71 Finnish settlements, and the app serves it for the cities listed below. Each was checked against the institution’s own published page for the same day in September 2026 and all six times matched in all thirty cities — September being a month when the angles are reached normally and the comparison is meaningful. Diyanet is not a Finnish authority and does not claim to be; Finland simply has no national timetable, and this is the published table that covers Finnish places most completely.
North and south are two different problems
The city list below covers the populated south and centre, from Helsinki and Espoo up through Tampere, Jyväskylä and Kuopio to Oulu and Vaasa. In Helsinki and the southern cities, the substitute-rule period lasts only a few weeks and the table behaves ordinarily for the rest of the year. Oulu is a different case: at 65 degrees north the affected period is long, the printed isha in June should be treated as a convention rather than a measurement, and a calendar printed by a local congregation carries more weight than any calculation. If you are further north again, in Rovaniemi or Lapland, that advice applies with more force.
An honest note about the afternoon prayer
For Sweden, Denmark and Norway the app’s afternoon default was tested against the national table and corrected where it was wrong. For Finland that test has not been done, because no Finnish congregation publishes a table with an afternoon column that could serve as the reference. The app therefore carries the earlier Hanafi default, at a shadow ratio of two, and this page says so rather than presenting it as verified. If the calendar in your mosque prints an earlier afternoon time, switch the setting in the app; the difference at Finnish latitudes in summer can exceed an hour.
Questions
Why does isha sometimes look strange in June?
Is there an official Finnish prayer timetable?
Which afternoon prayer time does the app use here?
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