Sweden prayer times

Sweden’s imam council settled the country’s long fajr and isha dispute by adopting one published timetable. This page explains that decision and what it means for Swedish cities.

Matches the Diyanet timetable · 0-minute difference

Scope of this claim

For the selected settlement and day in the published table, with personal minute adjustments set to zero.

Last verified: September 22, 2026

Prayer times in major cities

Stockholm Uppsala Linkoping Norrkoping Gavle

Gothenburg Vasteras Helsingborg Lund Boras

Malmo Orebro Jonkoping Umea Sodertalje

Cities

Cities are listed by population. A city that is missing has no entry in the prayer-times database yet.

Calculation and source

Institution: The Swedish imam council
Method: Diyanet (adopted as the Swedish reference); The published table printed for Swedish settlements; Fajr 18° / Isha 17°.
Asr: The standard shadow ratio of one is the default for Sweden. Measured against the adopted table across a full year in Stockholm and Gothenburg, the shadow-one afternoon sat about four minutes away on average, while the Hanafi ratio was more than forty-five minutes out and never matched.
Precaution minutes: None. The app adds no precaution minutes of its own.
Time zone: One time zone covers fourteen degrees of latitude. In late June Malmö in the far south still has a recognisable night, while northern Sweden has none at all, so the same clock produces completely different timetables at the two ends of the country.
Hijri calendar and crescent: Ramadan and the two Eids are announced through the imam council and the mosque associations. The same cooperation that settled the prayer timetable has made these announcements more uniform, though they are not issued by a state body.

The body that settled Sweden’s prayer-time dispute by adopting an existing published table as the common national reference.

The Swedish imam council

How Sweden settled its timetable

For years Swedish mosques printed calendars that disagreed, sometimes sharply, about when the fast began and when isha entered. In a country stretching from 55 to 69 degrees north, those disagreements are not academic: a two-degree difference in the fajr angle can move the start of the fast by more than half an hour in May. Sveriges Imamråd, together with the Islamic association IFiS, resolved it by adopting an existing published table as the Swedish reference rather than producing a new calculation. The table the app serves for Swedish cities is that same table, verified figure by figure against the institution’s own publication and checked city by city.

Fourteen degrees of latitude, one clock

Sweden is the most vertically stretched country in this directory. Malmö sits at about 55.6 degrees north and Kiruna at 67.9, well inside the Arctic Circle, and they share a single time zone. In late June the sun in Malmö dips far enough for a recognisable night, while in the far north it does not set at all. Consequently a Swedish prayer timetable is not one timetable but a family of them, and a calendar printed for Stockholm is meaningless in Kiruna. The city pages below cover the populous south and centre, where the published table behaves predictably; north of the Arctic Circle the substitute rules a table applies in summer matter more than the angles themselves.

Correcting the afternoon prayer

The app previously assumed a Hanafi afternoon time for Sweden on the grounds that Swedish mosque congregations come largely from Turkish, Bosnian and South Asian backgrounds. Measurement against the adopted national table showed that assumption was wrong. Across a full year in Stockholm and Gothenburg, the standard shadow-one afternoon sat about four minutes from the published column, while the shadow-two version was more than forty-five minutes out on average and reached eighty minutes at the peak of summer. The default was corrected to shadow-one, and the Hanafi time remains available for anyone who follows it.

What the claim covers, and what it does not

The claim is narrow: for a Swedish settlement and day in the published table, the six times shown here are identical to it, with no minutes added. It is not a claim about the far north in midsummer, where any table is applying a substitute rule. It is not a claim of endorsement — the app is independent of both Sveriges Imamråd and the Presidency of Religious Affairs. And it does not mean your local mosque prints the same numbers, though since the adoption most Swedish mosques do.

Questions

Why is the Swedish table published from Türkiye?

The calculation is published by the Turkish Presidency of Religious Affairs for Swedish settlements, as it is for many countries. Sweden’s imam council reviewed the options and adopted that table as the Swedish reference; the decision to adopt it was made in Sweden.

Are the times reliable in northern Sweden in summer?

North of the Arctic Circle the sun does not go far enough below the horizon for fajr and isha to occur astronomically for weeks at a time, so every calendar substitutes a rule of its own. In that period the calendar printed by your local mosque is the better guide.

Which afternoon prayer time does the app use?

The standard shadow ratio of one, which is what the adopted Swedish table prints. This was established by comparing a full year of the table rather than by assuming a madhhab from the community’s background.

Sources

Diyanet İşleri Başkanlığı — prayer times

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