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Dutch mosques spent years disagreeing about fajr and isha, and in 2023 the main federations settled on a common pair of angles. This page explains that agreement and what the app serves.
Matches the Diyanet timetable · 0-minute difference
Scope of this claim
For the selected settlement and day in the timetable Diyanet publishes for the Netherlands, with personal minute adjustments set to zero.
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 283 Dutch settlements; Fajr 18° / Isha 17°, the pair agreed by the Dutch federations in 2023.
- Asr
- The standard shadow ratio of one is the default for the Netherlands, following the Dutch federations’ published calendars rather than the Turkish column.
- Precaution minutes
- None. The app adds no precaution minutes of its own.
- Time zone
- The Netherlands sits at the western edge of Central European Time, between about three and seven degrees east, while the zone implies fifteen. The clock therefore runs well ahead of the sun: on a June evening maghrib in Amsterdam falls close to 22:00, later than almost anywhere else in the zone at the same latitude.
- Hijri calendar and crescent
- Ramadan and the two Eids are announced by the individual federations. Since the same 2023 consultation that settled the angles, the major federations have generally announced the same dates, but they remain separate announcements rather than one national one.
The Netherlands recognises no single Islamic authority for prayer times. ISN is the Dutch branch of the Presidency of Religious Affairs and publishes no separate timetable.
Netherlands prayer times
The 2023 agreement on fajr and isha
For a long time the biggest practical question in Dutch mosques was not which school to follow but which angle to use. Calendars circulating in the Netherlands used fajr angles ranging from fifteen to nineteen degrees, and in the Dutch summer that spread put the start of the fast more than half an hour apart between two mosques in the same town. In 2023 the main federations agreed on eighteen degrees for fajr and seventeen for isha — the same pair the Diyanet table has always used — and the disagreement largely closed. That is the single most useful fact about Dutch prayer times, and it is why this page and most Dutch mosque boards now agree closely.
Late evenings and short summer nights
The Netherlands lies between about 50.7 and 53.5 degrees north and keeps a clock set for a meridian far to its east. Both effects push the evening late. In late June, maghrib in Groningen falls after 22:00 and isha follows close to midnight, leaving a night of only a few hours before fajr. At those latitudes the eighteen-degree fajr angle is still reached, unlike in Scandinavia, but only barely, and the interval between isha and fajr narrows to under four hours for several weeks. The published table handles this without special rules; further north it is not so simple.
Which table the app serves, and why
For Dutch cities the app serves the timetable the Presidency of Religious Affairs publishes for the Netherlands, which covers 283 settlements. ISN, the Diyanet-affiliated federation and one of the largest mosque networks in the country, uses that same table. Each city page here 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. That is exactly what the label on each row claims — no more. Diyanet is not a Dutch authority, and mosques in the Moroccan and Surinamese traditions may print a calendar generated separately, even if the agreed angles now bring the numbers close together.
Choosing the right city
The Netherlands is small, but it is not uniform: the sun sets about eight minutes later in Vlissingen than in Groningen, and a little more than that between the western and eastern borders. For a country this compact the practical advice is simple — pick the listed city nearest you, and if you are between two, either will be within a couple of minutes. The larger differences you may notice between apps come from the angle convention, not from your position.
Questions
What angles do Dutch mosques use now?
Why is isha so late in June?
Which Asr does the app show for the Netherlands?
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