Cairo Prayer Times

Prayer Times in Cairo, Egypt

Prayer times in Cairo are worked out each day from the city's coordinates (30.04°N). We use the Egyptian method, the one followed across Egypt. The five times shift by a minute or two each day as the sun moves. The full month is listed below.

Cairo's times use the Egyptian method. That is the standard followed by most mosques in Egypt. They are drawn from Cairo's own coordinates (30.0444°N, 31.2357°E). The schedule updates automatically at midnight, with no manual setting.

How Cairo's prayer times are worked out

From Cairo, the Qibla is 136° from true north. Face southeast to pray toward the Kaaba. It lies 1,287 km (800 miles) away in a straight line across the globe. Every time on this page is worked out from Cairo's own coordinates (30.04°N, 31.24°E), not a national average. That is why Cairo's times and its Qibla differ a little from cities a short distance away.

Day length is what moves the Cairo timetable through the year. With the Egyptian method, the longest daily fast — Fajr to Maghrib — runs about 15h 51m around June. It eases to 11h 45m by December. That is a 4h 06m swing, set by the city's latitude of 30.04°N. The farther a place sits from the equator, the wider the gap.

The Fajr and Isha angles for Cairo come from the Egyptian General Authority of Survey. The Egyptian method sets Fajr when the sun is 19.5° below the horizon, and Isha at 17.5°. Use ISNA's 15° instead and Fajr here would move by several minutes. So the method — not the coordinates alone — settles the final time. Cairo sits close to its Cairo meridian, so Dhuhr lands near midday — 1:01 PM today. We also publish times for nearby Būlāq Abū al ‘Ilā, Giza and Madīnat an Naşr. Each is only a few minutes off Cairo's clock.

Nearby: Būlāq Abū al ‘Ilā prayer times · Giza prayer times · Madīnat an Naşr prayer times · Ḩadā’iq al Qubbah prayer times · Shubrā al Khaymah prayer times

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Mosques in Cairo

Mosques in and around Cairo include مسجد عمر مكرم, مسجد الرحمة, مسجد الشيخ معروف, مسجد الطباخ, مسجد الجزيرة and السرايا. The times on this page are worked out from Cairo'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.