About us

AzanNow gives you the times of the five daily prayers for any city or town in the world, together with a monthly timetable, the Qibla direction, Ramadan schedules and the mosques nearby. The site is fast and free, works in any browser with no download or account – and can be installed as an app.

What makes our timetables reliable

• The local method by default. Each country uses the calculation convention of its religious authority or of most of its mosques – Diyanet in Turkey, Umm al-Qura in Saudi Arabia, JAKIM in Malaysia, Kemenag in Indonesia, ISNA in North America, the Spiritual Administration of Muslims in Russia and so on. You can switch to any other method in the calculation settings.
• Both Asr times. We show the standard Asr of the Shafi‘i, Maliki and Hanbali schools and the later Hanafi Asr side by side, so nobody has to guess which one a timetable uses.
• Checked against official sources. Our calculations are compared with published timetables such as those of Diyanet İşleri Başkanlığı; the difference is usually within one minute.
• Honest about the hard cases. Where the sun does not sink far enough below the horizon in summer, or does not set at all, we say so on the page and explain which rule is applied.

Where the data comes from

Prayer times, Qibla directions and Hijri dates are calculated by our own code – on our server, or in your browser for the Qibla finder; see the methodology for details. Everything else comes from open data – if a mosque is missing, you can add it on OpenStreetMap or tell us.

Data sources and licences

• Places – cities, coordinates, time zones and populations: GeoNames, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
• Mosques:
  • © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database License (ODbL);
  • Overture Maps Foundation places, licensed under CDLA Permissive 2.0;
  • Wikidata, released under CC0;
  • GeoNames, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
• Approximate location from the IP address: IP Geolocation by DB-IP, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
• Time zone rules: the IANA time zone database (public domain).
• Recordings of the adhan and the Qur’an, played at prayer times and on the How to pray and Duas after prayer pages:
  • Adhan: Adam-synagda, Wikimedia Commons, CC0
  • Adhan: Aaqib Azeez, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Surah Al-Fatiha: Aaqib Azeez, Wikimedia Commons, CC0
  • Surah Al-Ikhlas: Aaqib Azeez, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Surah Al-Kawthar: Aaqib Azeez, Wikimedia Commons, CC0
  • Surah Al-Falaq: Aaqib Azeez, Wikimedia Commons, CC0
  • Surah An-Nas: Aaqib Azeez, Wikimedia Commons, CC0
  • Ayat al-Kursi (Al-Baqarah 2:255): Aaqib Azeez, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0

Languages

AzanNow starts in English. More languages will follow at the same address, each with fully translated pages.

Get in touch

Corrections, suggestions and mosque data are always welcome: write to us through the contact form.