Türkiye prayer times

Türkiye is one of the few countries with a single national prayer timetable. Choose a province to see today’s six times and the month ahead, with the source written on every row.

Matches the Diyanet timetable · 0-minute difference

Scope of this claim

For the selected Diyanet settlement and day, with personal minute adjustments set to zero. Mapping a GPS position to a settlement is a separate step.

Prayer times in major cities

Istanbul Bursa Adana Kocaeli Esenyurt Erzurum Van

Ankara Antalya Sanliurfa Diyarbakir Eskisehir Malatya Sancaktepe

Izmir Konya Gaziantep Kayseri Küçükçekmece Mersin

Cities

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

Calculation and source

Institution: Presidency of Religious Affairs
Method: Diyanet; Published timetable, served as printed; the calculation fallback uses Fajr 18° / Isha 17°.
Asr: The Diyanet table prints Asr at the Hanafi shadow ratio (2×), so the app’s default for Türkiye follows the printed column.
Precaution minutes: None. The app adds no precaution minutes of its own; the Diyanet table already contains the institution’s own margins.
Time zone: Türkiye has used permanent UTC+3 since 2016 and no longer changes the clock in spring and autumn. Because there is no daylight saving shift, the summer evening times in the far west of the country run noticeably late: Edirne’s isha can fall more than an hour after the clock time a European city at the same latitude would print.
Hijri calendar and crescent: Ramadan, the two Eids and the kandil nights are announced from the Diyanet’s own calendar, which is calculated in advance rather than settled by sighting on the night. Dates are therefore known years ahead and rarely move.

The state institution responsible for religious affairs in Türkiye; its prayer timetable is the national reference.

Presidency of Religious Affairs

One national table, 81 province pages

Most countries in this directory have no single prayer timetable. Türkiye does. The Presidency of Religious Affairs calculates and publishes times for hundreds of named settlements, and mosques, newspapers, television channels and municipal displays all print the same numbers. That is why each province page here shows a timetable rather than a calculation: for the province centre and the day you pick, the app serves the row the institution published, minute for minute. The province pages are grouped by the seven geographical regions of the country, so the eastern provinces — where sunrise arrives almost ninety minutes earlier than on the Aegean coast — sit together rather than being scattered through an alphabetical list.

Why a province page and a district can differ

A province page shows the times published for the provincial centre. The Diyanet table also covers districts, and a district an hour’s drive east or west of its provincial capital can differ by several minutes. If you live in a district with its own entry, selecting it in the app rather than relying on the province centre will give you the institution’s own row for your location. The difference is small in Marmara and the Aegean, where provinces are compact, and largest in the big eastern provinces, where a single province can stretch across more than a degree of longitude.

Imsak, fajr and the adhan you hear

The first column on a Turkish timetable is labelled imsak, the moment the fast begins, and it is the same instant as the start of the fajr prayer. Some readers expect a gap between the two because the dawn adhan in their neighbourhood is called a few minutes later; that gap is a local mosque practice, not a second time in the table. The app prints the published imsak column and labels it fajr in English so that the six rows match the six rows of the printed calendar, and the monthly table repeats the source label on every line so it is always clear whether a row came from the published calendar or from a calculation.

What the 0-minute claim does and does not cover

The claim on this page is narrow on purpose. It says that when the app is showing the Diyanet timetable for a settlement and date the institution has published, the six times are identical to that table. It does not say the app is an official Diyanet product, that it is endorsed by the institution, or that any calculated fallback matches. It also does not promise that a GPS reading will always resolve to the settlement you would have chosen by hand — a phone near a provincial boundary may pick the neighbouring entry. If you want certainty, select the place by name in the app and leave the personal minute adjustments at zero.

Questions

Why do the times on my mosque’s board differ from the app?

Many mosques add a few precaution minutes to the printed table, particularly for the fajr and isha adhan, or they call the adhan at a fixed offset after the table time. The app shows the Diyanet row itself. If your mosque publishes its own offsets you can reproduce them with the personal minute adjustments in the app.

Does Türkiye change the clocks for summer time?

No. Since September 2016 the country has stayed on UTC+3 all year. The prayer times still move with the sun, so the apparent clock times shift through the year, but there is no one-hour jump in spring or autumn.

Which Asr does the app show for Türkiye?

The Hanafi Asr, calculated at a shadow ratio of two, because that is the column the Diyanet table prints. You can switch to the standard shadow-one Asr in the app if you follow that practice, but then the row is a calculation and no longer matches the published table.