Bergen Prayer Times

Prayer Times in Bergen, Norway

Bergenprayer times are calculated based on the city's precise geographic coordinates (60.3930°N, 5.3242°E) using the Muslim World League calculation method — the standard followed by most mosques in Norway. 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 Bergen'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 Bergen prayer time calendar for the full month is shown below — so you can plan ahead without checking daily.

How Bergen's prayer times are worked out

Bergen sits 5,098 km (3,168 miles) from the Kaaba in Mecca, so the Qibla from here is 133° from true north — you face southeast to pray. Fajr and Isha depend on how far the sun drops below the horizon, and Norway follows the Muslim World League method set by the Muslim World League: 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 the hard problem in Bergen. At 60.39°N the sun does not sink 18° below the horizon at all around midsummer, so the twilight that defines Fajr and Isha never arrives and the angle-based times stop being meaningful — taken literally they would stretch the fast past 20 hours. Mosques at this latitude therefore fall back to an agreed convention instead, most commonly taking the timings of the nearest city where night still falls, or following Mecca's clock. Check what your local mosque in Norway has adopted before relying on a calculated Fajr or Isha in June.

One local quirk worth knowing: Dhuhr in Bergen does not fall at 12:00. Because the city sits well west within its Europe/Oslo time zone, the sun peaks about 47 minutes after clock noon, and Dhuhr follows the sun rather than the clock — today it is at 1:46 PM. The nearest cities we also publish times for are Stavanger, Sandnes, Ålesund — close enough that their times differ from Bergen's by only a few minutes.