Damascus Prayer Times

Prayer Times in Damascus, Syria

Prayer times in Damascus are worked out each day from the city's coordinates (33.51°N). We use the Muslim World League method, the one followed across Syria. The five times shift by a minute or two each day as the sun moves. The full month is listed below.

Damascus's times use the Muslim World League method. That is the standard followed by most mosques in Syria. They are drawn from Damascus's own coordinates (33.5102°N, 36.2913°E). The schedule updates automatically at midnight, with no manual setting.

How Damascus's prayer times are worked out

From Damascus, the Qibla is 165° from true north. Face south to pray toward the Kaaba. It lies 1,388 km (863 miles) away in a straight line across the globe. Every time on this page is worked out from Damascus's own coordinates (33.51°N, 36.29°E), not a national average. That is why Damascus's times and its Qibla differ a little from cities a short distance away.

One local quirk shapes the Damascus timetable: midday prayer does not land at 12:00. Damascus lies well west inside its Damascus time zone. So the sun peaks about 43 minutes after clock noon. Dhuhr follows the sun, not the clock — today it falls at 12:33 PM. Across the year, the fast here runs from about 16h 06m near June down to 11h 25m in December.

The Fajr and Isha angles for Damascus 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 al-Yarmūk, Babīlā and Jaramānā. Each is only a few minutes off Damascus's clock.

Nearby: al-Yarmūk prayer times · Babīlā prayer times · Jaramānā prayer times · Dārayyā prayer times · At Tall prayer times

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Mosques in Damascus

Mosques in and around Damascus include جامع التقية, جامع الحلبوني, جامع الرازي, جامع وتكية المولوية, جامع المولوية and مقام الأمير عز الدين أيبك المعظمي. The times on this page are worked out from Damascus'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.