SalahNowSingapore prayer times
Singapore has one national prayer timetable, published by MUIS as open data. This page explains what it covers and how the app serves it.
Matches the MUIS timetable · 0-minute difference
Scope of this claim
For a location inside Singapore on a date covered by the published MUIS table, with personal minute adjustments set to zero. The evidence covers the full 2026 table; the 2027 edition is verified when MUIS publishes it.
Cities
Cities are listed by population. A city that is missing has no entry in the prayer-times database yet.
Calculation and source
- Institution
- Islamic Religious Council of Singapore
- Method
- MUIS / Singapore
- Published national timetable; the calculation fallback uses Subuh 20° / Isyak 18°.
- Asr
- The MUIS table prints Asar at the standard shadow ratio of one, following the Shafi‘i school that predominates in Singapore.
- Precaution minutes
- None added by the app. MUIS’s own published margins are already inside the table.
- Time zone
- Singapore sits at about 104 degrees east but keeps UTC+8, so the clock runs roughly an hour ahead of local solar time. Zuhur falls near 13:10 and maghrib near 19:10 all year. Being one degree north of the equator, Singapore has almost no seasonal variation: the difference between the earliest and latest maghrib across a whole year is under half an hour.
- Hijri calendar and crescent
- MUIS announces the start of Ramadan, Hari Raya Puasa and Hari Raya Haji for Singapore. The announcement follows the regional MABIMS criteria shared with Malaysia, Brunei and Indonesia, so the four countries usually — though not always — begin on the same day.
The statutory body that administers Muslim affairs in Singapore; its prayer timetable is the single national reference.
Singapore prayer times
One island, one table
Singapore is unusual in this directory: it is small enough that a single prayer timetable serves the entire country, and it has one body with the standing to publish it. MUIS releases the annual table as open government data rather than as a printed calendar alone, which means the same numbers that appear on a mosque noticeboard in Woodlands are available in machine-readable form. The app serves that published table for Singapore rather than calculating, so the row you see and the row MUIS published are the same row.
Why the times barely move through the year
Singapore lies about one degree north of the equator. At that latitude the sun rises and sets at almost the same clock time every day: subuh moves by roughly twenty minutes across a whole year, and maghrib by less. The long seasonal drift that dominates a British or Scandinavian timetable simply does not happen here. What does shift the clock times is the time zone. Singapore keeps UTC+8 although its longitude would suggest UTC+7, so noon by the sun falls near 13:10 by the clock and the whole timetable sits about an hour later than a visitor from Jakarta expects.
How Singapore compares with its neighbours
Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia each publish their own national timetable and each uses a slightly different fajr convention, so times a few kilometres apart across a border are not identical. MUIS uses a twenty-degree subuh, JAKIM moved to eighteen degrees in 2019, and Indonesia’s Kemenag uses its own figure. On any given morning the Singapore and Johor Bahru tables can differ by a few minutes at subuh even though the two cities are within sight of each other. The difference is a difference of published convention, and each country’s table is correct for the country that published it.
What the claim covers
The claim on this page is that for a date inside the published MUIS table, the six times shown are identical to that table, with no minutes added. The evidence behind it covers the full 2026 year. It does not extend automatically to a year MUIS has not yet published, and it does not imply any endorsement: the app is independent and is not a MUIS product. Where the app falls back to a calculation — for a date outside the published table — the row is labelled as calculated rather than carrying the institution’s name.
Questions
Is there a separate timetable for different parts of Singapore?
Why is Singapore’s subuh earlier than Johor Bahru’s?
Does the app add precaution minutes?
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