SalahNowOman prayer times
Daily and monthly prayer times for cities and towns across Oman. The times are calculated and adjusted to the calendar published by the Ministry of Endowments and Religious Affairs, and every row is labelled as calculated.
Scope of this claim
The Ministry of Endowments and Religious Affairs publishes Oman’s prayer-time calendar, but the app does not serve it row by row. It calculates each place’s times with the rules that calendar follows — the same angles and the same precaution minutes — so the result sits very close to it. A calculation adjusted to a table is still not the table, so this page makes no 0-minute claim and no row carries the ministry’s name.
Calculation and source
- Institution
- Ministry of Endowments and Religious Affairs
- Method
- Muslim World League base, adjusted to the ministry’s calendar
- Fajr 18°, Isha 18°, and five precaution minutes on Dhuhr, Asr and Maghrib, as in the ministry’s calendar; a calculation, not a published timetable.
- Asr
- Asr begins when an object’s shadow equals its length, which is what the ministry’s calendar uses. The Hanafi shadow-two Asr can be selected in the app; only Asr moves.
- Precaution minutes
- Five minutes on Dhuhr, Asr and Maghrib, following the ministry’s calendar; none on Fajr, sunrise or Isha. Personal minute adjustments start at zero.
- Time zone
- Oman does not observe daylight saving time, so the table never jumps by an hour. The country spans about eight degrees of longitude on one clock, so sunrise on the eastern tip comes roughly half an hour before sunrise on the western border.
- Hijri calendar and crescent
- The start of Ramadan, both Eids and the other Hijri months are announced by the ministry’s crescent-sighting committee. The Hijri dates on these pages and in the app are calculated and can differ from the announcement by a day.
Publishes the prayer-time calendar most Omani mosques follow and, through its crescent-sighting committee, announces the Hijri months. The app’s calculation for Oman is adjusted to that calendar; no row is copied from it.
Oman prayer times
How the times for Oman are calculated
The Ministry of Endowments and Religious Affairs publishes a prayer-time calendar, and it is the reference most Omani mosques call the adhan by. These pages do not copy that calendar cell by cell. They calculate the times from each place’s coordinates using the rules the calendar follows: Fajr and Isha when the sun is eighteen degrees below the horizon, and Dhuhr, Asr and Maghrib five minutes after the astronomical moment, as a precaution. The calculation was set this way after comparing it with the published calendar, so it lands very close. It remains a calculation, which is why every row says so and none carries the ministry’s name.
Why Dhuhr and Maghrib sit a few minutes later
Compare Oman’s times with a plain calculation for another country and Dhuhr, Asr and Maghrib appear about five minutes later, while Fajr and Isha do not move. That is not an error. The Omani calendar adds a precaution to the prayers that begin with a movement of the sun — its passing the meridian, the lengthening shadow and the setting of the disc. Sunrise is the end of the Fajr window rather than the start of a prayer, so it takes no margin. The app follows the same rule and adds nothing of its own on top.
From Musandam to Dhofar
Oman runs from the Musandam peninsula on the Strait of Hormuz to Salalah and Dhofar in the south, close to ten degrees of latitude, and about eight degrees of longitude from the Dhofar border to Ras al Hadd — on a single clock. The day is noticeably longer in the north in summer and shorter in winter, and the east sees the sun well before the west. Do not read Muscat’s times as the times of the whole country; choose your own city, or the nearest place on the same coast or in the same interior region.
Monthly table, Ramadan and reminders
Each city page shows today’s six times and a thirty-day table; during Ramadan the same data produces the Ramadan timetable, with Fajr as suhoor and Maghrib as iftar. In the app, every prayer can have an adhan sound or a silent alert, a reminder a few minutes early, and the widget keeps the next prayer on the home screen.
Questions
Are these the ministry’s published times?
Why is Dhuhr five minutes after solar noon?
Does Oman observe summer time?
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