SalahNowRussia prayer times
Daily and monthly prayer times for Russia’s largest cities. The times come from a calculation tuned to the calendar of the Spiritual Administration of Muslims of the Russian Federation, and every row is labelled as calculated.
Scope of this claim
The app does not serve the Spiritual Administration’s timetable itself; it calculates the times and tunes the calculation to that timetable. The comparison was not made across the whole country, and the sunrise and sunset margins depend on latitude, so this page makes no 0-minute claim.
Cities
Cities are listed by population. A city that is missing has no entry in the prayer-times database yet.
Calculation and source
- Institution
- Spiritual Administration of Muslims of the Russian Federation
- Method
- Muslim World League, tuned to the Russian muftiate’s timetable
- Fajr 18°, isha 15°, angle-based rule at high latitude; sunrise −5, dhuhr +4, maghrib +5 minutes.
- Asr
- Asr is shown at a shadow ratio of one, which is what the muftiate’s timetable prints. The Hanafi two-shadow Asr can be selected in the app; the other five times stay where they are.
- Precaution minutes
- The sunrise, dhuhr and maghrib margins are part of the calculation. Beyond them the app adds no precaution minutes, and personal minute adjustments start at zero.
- Time zone
- Each city is shown in its own time zone: Kaliningrad UTC+2, Moscow UTC+3, Samara UTC+4, Ufa and Yekaterinburg UTC+5, Novosibirsk UTC+7, Vladivostok UTC+10. Russia has not changed its clocks seasonally since 2014.
- Hijri calendar and crescent
- The start of Ramadan and both Eids is announced by the muftiates, and regions can differ by a day. The Hijri date in the app is calculated and can differ from the announcement by a day.
The federal muftiate; it publishes prayer times that the app uses to tune its calculation. The timetable itself is not served.
Spiritual Administration of Muslims of the Russian Federation
Russia prayer times
A calculation tuned to the timetable
The Spiritual Administration of Muslims of the Russian Federation publishes prayer times on its own website. The app does not read that timetable line by line; it calculates the times from each city’s coordinates and chooses the parameters by comparing the calculation with the timetable: fajr at 18 degrees and isha at 15 degrees, with sunrise, dhuhr and maghrib brought close to the margins the muftiate applies. Even so, the page does not claim a 0-minute difference. The comparison was not made across the whole country, and the margins added to sunrise and sunset depend on latitude — small in the south, larger in the north. Every row is labelled as calculated.
Summer nights in the north
Most of Russia lies at high latitude. In Moscow and further north the sun never sinks 18 degrees below the horizon in summer, the sky never grows fully dark, and fajr and isha cannot be calculated with the usual angles. On those nights the app uses an angle-based rule: a share of the night proportional to the angle is given to isha and to fajr. The muftiate’s timetable follows the same approach. In cities such as Saint Petersburg the gap between isha and fajr shrinks to a couple of hours in June; that is not an error but the sky at that latitude.
Tatarstan, Bashkortostan and the Caucasus
Most of Russia’s Muslims live in Tatarstan, Bashkortostan and the North Caucasus. Ufa and Naberezhnye Chelny are among the cities on this page. The republics of the North Caucasus, Dagestan among them, have their own muftiates and their own calendars; the app applies the same federal tuning there, so a difference of a few minutes against the local calendar is possible. The per-prayer minute adjustment in the app will close it.
Eleven time zones, Asr and Ramadan
Russia spans eleven time zones and does not observe daylight saving time, so each city’s table is written in its own zone and never jumps by an hour. Asr defaults to the shadow-one ratio because the muftiate’s timetable prints it that way; the Hanafi shadow-two Asr can be selected in the app. During Ramadan the same data produces the Ramadan timetable, with fajr as suhoor and maghrib as iftar.
Questions
Does the app show the Russian muftiate’s timetable?
Why are isha and fajr so close together in summer?
Why is there a difference with the mosque calendar in Dagestan?
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