SalahNowGermany prayer times
Germany has no single national prayer timetable, but it does have one that most mosques print. This page explains which table the app serves for German cities and where other calendars differ.
Matches the Diyanet timetable · 0-minute difference
Scope of this claim
For the selected settlement and day in the timetable Diyanet publishes for Germany, with personal minute adjustments set to zero.
Last verified: September 22, 2026
Calculation and source
- Institution
- No national authority
- Method
- Diyanet
- The timetable Diyanet publishes for 1,241 German settlements; the calculation fallback uses Fajr 18° / Isha 17°.
- Asr
- The app’s default Asr for Germany is the Hanafi shadow ratio of two, which is the column the Diyanet table prints and the one most German mosque calendars follow.
- Precaution minutes
- None. The app adds no precaution minutes of its own.
- Time zone
- The clocks go forward on the last Sunday in March and back on the last Sunday in October. Germany spans about nine degrees of longitude, so sunset in Aachen arrives roughly half an hour later by the clock than in Görlitz on the same evening — a real difference, and the reason city pages exist rather than one national table of times.
- Hijri calendar and crescent
- Ramadan and the two Eids are announced by the individual associations. DİTİB mosques follow the Diyanet calendar, which is calculated in advance; others follow sighting reports or a different calculated calendar, so start dates can differ by a day between two mosques in the same city.
Germany recognises no single Islamic authority for prayer times. DİTİB, the largest mosque association, is the German branch of the Presidency of Religious Affairs and publishes no separate timetable of its own.
Institutional timetable
Germany prayer times
The most-printed table in the country
Germany has around five million Muslims and no body with the standing to publish one prayer timetable for all of them. What it does have is a table that more mosques print than any other. The Presidency of Religious Affairs publishes times for 1,241 German settlements, and DİTİB — which runs roughly nine hundred mosques, more than any other association — is its German branch and points its own congregations at that table rather than producing one. That is why German city pages here serve the Diyanet timetable: it is the most widely followed published calendar in the country, not because it is official in any German legal sense.
Where German calendars disagree
The disagreements are at fajr and isha, as they are everywhere in northern Europe. The Diyanet table uses eighteen degrees for fajr and seventeen for isha. Calendars printed by IGMG mosques, by the Islamic Centre of Hamburg, and by mosques in the Moroccan and Arab traditions use other angles, and in a German summer those differences grow: at fifty degrees north a two-degree change in the fajr angle moves the time by a quarter of an hour in June and by only a few minutes in November. If your mosque’s board and this page disagree, compare a date in March or October first — if they agree there and diverge in June, it is an angle difference, not a location problem.
Why city pages matter more than you would expect
Germany runs on one clock but stretches from six to fifteen degrees east. The sun sets about thirty-five minutes later in Aachen than in Dresden on the same day, and about twenty minutes later in Cologne than in Berlin. A single national timetable would therefore be wrong for most of the country, and the Diyanet table does not attempt one — it publishes settlement by settlement. Choose the city closest to you rather than the largest one in your state, and if you live between two listed cities, the app’s own location will place you correctly.
Selecting a mosque timetable instead
If your mosque publishes its own annual Gebetszeiten, the app can serve that table directly. The Islamisches Zentrum Bielefeld publishes an annual timetable, and selecting it in the app replaces the default with the centre’s own printed values, with no minutes added, for the dates it published. As with every institution profile, the claim is narrow: it holds while the selected published timetable is used, it is not extended to places the centre did not publish for, and it does not imply any endorsement.
Questions
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