Biel/Bienne Prayer Times

Prayer Times in Biel/Bienne, Switzerland

Biel/Bienneprayer times are calculated based on the city's precise geographic coordinates (47.1371°N, 7.2461°E) using the Muslim World League calculation method — the standard followed by most mosques in Switzerland. 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 Biel/Bienne'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 Biel/Bienne prayer time calendar for the full month is shown below — so you can plan ahead without checking daily.

How Biel/Bienne's prayer times are worked out

Biel/Bienne sits 4,086 km (2,539 miles) from the Kaaba in Mecca, so the Qibla from here is 123° from true north — you face southeast to pray. Fajr and Isha depend on how far the sun drops below the horizon, and Switzerland 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 what really moves the timetable in Biel/Bienne. Measured with the Muslim World League method, the longest daily fast here — from Fajr to Maghrib — runs about 18h 54m around June, while the shortest is roughly 10h 21m in December: a swing of 8h 33m across the year. That spread is set by Biel/Bienne's latitude (47.14°N); cities nearer the equator barely vary, while far-northern ones swing by many hours.

One local quirk worth knowing: Dhuhr in Biel/Bienne does not fall at 12:00. Because the city sits well west within its Europe/Zurich time zone, the sun peaks about 39 minutes after clock noon, and Dhuhr follows the sun rather than the clock — today it is at 1:38 PM. The nearest cities we also publish times for are Bern, Basel, Belfort — close enough that their times differ from Biel/Bienne's by only a few minutes.