Baku Prayer Times

Prayer Times in Baku, Azerbaijan

Prayer times in Baku are worked out each day from the city's coordinates (40.38°N). We use the Muslim World League method, the one followed across Azerbaijan. The five times shift by a minute or two each day as the sun moves. The full month is listed below.

Baku's times use the Muslim World League method. That is the standard followed by most mosques in Azerbaijan. They are drawn from Baku's own coordinates (40.3777°N, 49.8920°E). The schedule updates automatically at midnight, with no manual setting.

How Baku's prayer times are worked out

From Baku, the Qibla is 207° from true north. Face southwest to pray toward the Kaaba. It lies 2,312 km (1,437 miles) away in a straight line across the globe. Every time on this page is worked out from Baku's own coordinates (40.38°N, 49.89°E), not a national average. That is why Baku's times and its Qibla differ a little from cities a short distance away.

One local quirk shapes the Baku timetable: midday prayer does not land at 12:00. Baku lies well west inside its Baku time zone. So the sun peaks about 49 minutes after clock noon. Dhuhr follows the sun, not the clock — today it falls at 12:39 PM. Across the year, the fast here runs from about 17h 09m near June down to 10h 56m in December.

The Fajr and Isha angles for Baku come from the Muslim World League. The Muslim World League method sets Fajr when the sun is 18° below the horizon, and Isha at 17°. Use ISNA's 15° instead and Fajr here would move by several minutes. So the method — not the coordinates alone — settles the final time. We also publish times for nearby Qaraçuxur, Bakıxanov and Sumqayıt. Each is only a few minutes off Baku's clock.

Nearby: Qaraçuxur prayer times · Bakıxanov prayer times · Sumqayıt prayer times · Şirvan prayer times · Saatlı prayer times

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Mosques in Baku

Mosques in and around Baku include Keşlə Məscidi, Əbu Bəkr Mascidi, Hüseyniyyə məscidi, Göy Məscid, Kərbəla Abdulla məscidi and Cümə Məscidi. The times on this page are worked out from Baku's own coordinates, and they apply across these mosques. Check the exact iqama time with your local mosque. That is the congregation, called a few minutes after each prayer starts.