SalahNowTurkmenistan prayer times
Daily and monthly prayer times for cities across Turkmenistan. 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 Turkmenistan. The times are calculated from each city’s coordinates with the Muslim World League method and have not been compared cell by cell with the calendar used in Turkmen mosques, so this page makes no 0-minute claim.
Prayer times in major cities
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 is shown at the Hanafi shadow ratio of two, following the established practice in Turkmenistan. The shadow-one 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
- Turkmenistan does not observe daylight saving time, so the table never jumps by an hour. One clock covers about fourteen degrees of longitude, close to an hour of solar time between the Caspian coast and the Amu Darya.
- Hijri calendar and crescent
- The start of Ramadan and both Eids is announced by the country’s religious authorities. The Hijri dates on these pages and in the app are calculated and can differ from the announcement by a day.
Turkmenistan prayer times
Which method the times use
For Turkmenistan the app does not read a timetable published by an institution; it calculates the times from each city’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 city on that day. The times have not been compared cell by cell with the calendar used in Turkmen mosques, so this page does not say “0-minute difference”, and every row is labelled as calculated.
From the Caspian to the Amu Darya
Türkmenbaşy on the Caspian and Türkmenabat on the Amu Darya are more than ten degrees of longitude apart, and the country reaches further east still — on a single clock. The sun therefore rises and sets about three quarters of an hour later by the clock in the west than in the east. Latitude matters too: Daşoguz in the north lies about seven degrees further from the equator than the southern border, so its summer nights are shorter, fajr comes earlier and isha later. Do not read Ashgabat’s times as the times of the whole country; choose your own city.
The difference with the mosque calendar
Mosque calendars often add a few precaution minutes to the calculation 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. Small differences in the fajr and isha angles weigh more in summer, so compare on the same day and for the same city.
Clock, Asr and Ramadan
Because the established practice follows the Hanafi school, Asr defaults to the shadow-two ratio; the shadow-one Asr can be selected in the app. Each city page shows today’s six times and a thirty-day table, and 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.
Questions
Which calculation method does the app use for Turkmenistan?
Can I use Ashgabat’s times in Türkmenabat or Türkmenbaşy?
Does Turkmenistan observe summer time?
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