Azan Clock
How prayer-time notifications work here
Fajr and isha are the two times that vary most between authorities, because both depend on how far below the horizon the sun sits, and there’s no single figure everyone agrees on. Karachi and the Muslim World League use eighteen degrees, ISNA uses fifteen, and Umm al-Qura in Makkah sets isha by a fixed interval after sunset rather than by an angle at all.
Asr has two established rulings: the standard calculation used by the Shafi, Maliki and Hanbali schools, and the later Hanafi calculation. Both are available here, and which one applies site-wide is set in the theme settings.
Where a local mosque publishes its own printed timetable, that’s the one to follow — a calculated time and a mosque’s own posted time usually agree within a couple of minutes, and the mosque’s version is the one the congregation is actually praying by. For the full monthly picture, including sehri and iftar, see the Ramadan page.
The voluntary prayers listed alongside the five obligatory ones
Beyond the five daily obligatory prayers, the table on this page also lists the recommended voluntary ones and the window each one falls within — worked out from the same underlying sun positions rather than from fixed clock hours.
- Tahajjud — the night prayer, offered in the final third of the night after sleeping, ending once fajr begins.
- Islamic midnight — the exact halfway point between sunset and dawn. Not a prayer time itself, but the marker that divides the night in two.
- Ishraq — shortly after sunrise, once the sun has fully cleared the horizon, roughly fifteen minutes after it first appears.
- Duha, also called Chasht — mid-morning, running from shortly after Ishraq until just before the sun reaches its highest point.
- Zawal — the few minutes as the sun crosses its zenith, when prayer is deliberately avoided until dhuhr formally begins.
- Awwabin — offered in the gap between maghrib and isha.
- Witr — the odd-numbered prayer that closes out the night, prayed any time after isha.
All three periods in which prayer is discouraged follow the sun rather than the clock: the minutes as it rises, the minutes as it sets, and zawal at its peak. Different schools set slightly different lengths for each window, which is one more reason to defer to your own local timetable wherever one exists.
Questions people ask
What exactly is the azan?
The call announcing that a prayer time has begun, traditionally given from the mosque immediately before each of the five daily prayers.
Does this page actually play a recording of the adhan itself?
No — it plays whichever alert tone you’ve personally chosen, simply as a reminder that the prayer time has arrived.
Why do prayer times shift a little every single day?
Because they follow the sun’s actual position rather than the clock, and the sun’s position at any given hour shifts gradually across the year.
Which calculation method does this page use?
Whichever one is set site-wide in the theme settings — the same choice the prayer times page uses, so the two never disagree with each other.
How does Umm al-Qura specifically calculate isha?
By a fixed interval after sunset — ninety minutes for most of the year — rather than by a sun angle the way most other methods do.
Will the alert still work if the tab sits in the background?
Usually, as long as the page stays open and you’ve interacted with it at least once, which is what allows the browser to play sound at all.