Bergama Prayer Times

Prayer Times in Bergama, Turkey

Bergamaprayer times are calculated based on the city's precise geographic coordinates (39.1207°N, 27.1805°E) using the Diyanet calculation method — the standard followed by most mosques in Turkey. Times shown are for today's date and update automatically at midnight.

The five daily prayers — Fajr, Dhuhr, Asr, Maghrib, and Isha — are calculated from the sun's position relative to Bergama's latitude and longitude. As the sun's declination changes throughout the year, prayer times shift by several minutes each day. This is why a Bergama prayer time calendar for the full month is shown below — so you can plan ahead without checking daily.

How Bergama's prayer times are worked out

Bergama sits 2,307 km (1,434 miles) from the Kaaba in Mecca, so the Qibla from here is 145° from true north — you face southeast to pray. Fajr and Isha depend on how far the sun drops below the horizon, and Turkey follows the Diyanet method set by Diyanet İşleri Başkanlığı, Türkiye's state religious authority: Fajr begins when the sun is 18° below the horizon, and Isha when it reaches 17°. A city that used ISNA's 15° instead would get a noticeably different Fajr — which is why the method, not just the coordinates, decides the answer.

Day length is what really moves the timetable in Bergama. Measured with the Diyanet method, the longest daily fast here — from Fajr to Maghrib — runs about 16h 56m around June, while the shortest is roughly 11h 02m in December: a swing of 5h 54m across the year. That spread is set by Bergama's latitude (39.12°N); cities nearer the equator barely vary, while far-northern ones swing by many hours.

One local quirk worth knowing: Dhuhr in Bergama does not fall at 12:00. Because the city sits well west within its Europe/Istanbul time zone, the sun peaks about 80 minutes after clock noon, and Dhuhr follows the sun rather than the clock — today it is at 1:18 PM. The nearest cities we also publish times for are Soma, Ayvalık, Menemen — close enough that their times differ from Bergama's by only a few minutes.