Male Prayer Times

Prayer Times in Male, Maldives

Maleprayer times are calculated based on the city's precise geographic coordinates (4.1752°N, 73.5092°E) using the Karachi calculation method — the standard followed by most mosques in Maldives. 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 Male'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 Male prayer time calendar for the full month is shown below — so you can plan ahead without checking daily.

How Male's prayer times are worked out

Male sits 4,109 km (2,553 miles) from the Kaaba in Mecca, so the Qibla from here is 301° from true north — you face northwest to pray. Fajr and Isha depend on how far the sun drops below the horizon, and Maldives follows the Karachi method set by the University of Islamic Sciences, Karachi: Fajr begins when the sun is 18° below the horizon, and Isha when it reaches 18°. 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 Male. Measured with the Karachi method, the longest daily fast here — from Fajr to Maghrib — runs about 13h 38m around June, while the shortest is roughly 13h 08m in December: a swing of 0h 30m across the year. That spread is set by Male's latitude (4.18°N); cities nearer the equator barely vary, while far-northern ones swing by many hours.

One local quirk worth knowing: Dhuhr in Male does not fall at 12:00. Because the city sits well west within its Indian/Maldives time zone, the sun peaks about 14 minutes after clock noon, and Dhuhr follows the sun rather than the clock — today it is at 12:13 PM. The nearest cities we also publish times for are Thiruvananthapuram, Neyyāttinkara, Pallichal — close enough that their times differ from Male's by only a few minutes.