SalahNowSomalia prayer times
Daily and monthly prayer times for cities and towns across Somalia. The times are calculated with the Muslim World League method, and every row is labelled as calculated with the method named.
Scope of this claim
No institutional timetable is served for Somalia. The times are calculated from each place’s coordinates with the Muslim World League method and have not been compared cell by cell with a local mosque calendar, 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
- Method
- Muslim World League
- Fajr 18°, isha 17°; a calculation, not a published timetable.
- Asr
- Asr begins when an object’s shadow equals its length, following the Shafi‘i practice of Somali mosques. The Hanafi shadow-two Asr can be selected in the app; the other five times stay where they are.
- Precaution minutes
- None. The app adds no precaution minutes and personal minute adjustments start at zero.
- Time zone
- Somalia does not observe daylight saving time. With one clock across about ten degrees of longitude, the sun rises on the north-eastern coast roughly forty minutes before it rises over the western towns.
- Hijri calendar and crescent
- The start of Ramadan and both Eids is announced after the crescent is sought, and announcements can differ by a day between bodies. The Hijri dates on these pages and in the app are calculated and can differ from the announcement you follow by a day.
Somalia prayer times
Which method the times use
For Somalia the app does not read a timetable published by an institution; it calculates the times from each place’s coordinates. The method is that of the Muslim World League: fajr begins when the sun is 18 degrees below the horizon and isha when it is 17 degrees below, while sunrise, dhuhr, asr and maghrib follow from the sun’s position over the place on that day. The times have not been compared cell by cell with a Somali mosque calendar, so this page does not say “0-minute difference”, and every row is labelled as calculated.
From the equator to the Horn
Somalia runs from just south of the equator to the tip of the Horn of Africa near twelve degrees north, and about ten degrees of longitude from the western border to the Indian Ocean coast — on a single clock. Near the equator the length of the day hardly changes through the year and twilight is short, so the times move little between seasons but a great deal between cities. Mogadishu and Bosaso, for example, are about four degrees of longitude and more than nine degrees of latitude apart. Do not read Mogadishu’s times as the times of the whole country; choose your own city.
The difference with the mosque calendar
Local calendars often add a few precaution minutes to some prayers and may use slightly different angles for fajr and isha. The app adds no margin of its own. If you see a steady difference of a few minutes against your mosque, the per-prayer minute adjustment in the app will close it without changing the method. Compare on the same day and for the same place.
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 and a reminder a few minutes early, and the widget keeps the next prayer on the home screen.
Questions
Which calculation method does the app use for Somalia?
My town is not listed. Which place should I choose?
Why does the mosque call the adhan a few minutes after the time shown?
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