Ramadan Prayer Times: Suhoor and Iftar

Ramadan is the ninth month of the Hijri calendar. Because the Hijri year is about eleven days shorter than the Gregorian year, Ramadan moves roughly eleven days earlier each year, working its way through all four seasons over about 33 years.

Ramadan is 29 or 30 days, and which one it is only becomes clear on the night of the 29th, when the moon that ends the month is looked for. Eid al-Fitr is the first day of Shawwal, the month that follows. Many communities begin and end the month by local sighting rather than calculation, so take your dates from your local authority.

Every city page below carries a full monthly timetable with Fajr (Suhoor) and Maghrib (Iftar) for each day, in static form, so the times are there whether or not scripts run.

Middle East

Makkah Madinah Riyadh Jeddah Dammam Dubai Abu Dhabi Sharjah Doha Kuwait City Manama Muscat Cairo Alexandria Istanbul Ankara

South Asia

Karachi Lahore Islamabad Faisalabad Peshawar Multan Delhi Mumbai Hyderabad Dhaka Chittagong

Southeast Asia

Jakarta Bandung Surabaya Kuala Lumpur Penang Singapore

Europe

London Birmingham Manchester Bradford Paris Berlin Cologne Amsterdam Brussels Stockholm Copenhagen Barcelona

North America

New York Chicago Detroit Dallas Atlanta Toronto Calgary Edmonton

Africa

Lagos Abuja Casablanca Algiers Dakar Addis Ababa Dar es Salaam Khartoum

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Iftar is the straightforward one

Maghrib begins at sunset, which is astronomically well defined and which every method agrees on to within a minute or two. That is why Iftar times rarely differ between timetables for the same city.

Suhoor is where methods disagree

Fajr begins when the sun reaches a set angle below the horizon before sunrise — but recognised authorities use different angles. ISNA uses 15°, the Muslim World League and Karachi 18°, Umm al-Qura 18.5°, and the Egyptian General Authority of Survey 19.5°. Two entirely valid methods can place Fajr twenty minutes or more apart, which shifts when your Suhoor ends.

This is a difference of convention, not an error in either. Your local mosque's timetable is the authority for your community — where ours differs from theirs, follow theirs. Our methodology page sets out exactly how each number is produced.

Imsak is not the start of the fast

Some timetables print an Imsak time about ten minutes before Fajr. It is a precautionary margin to finish eating, not the moment the fast begins — the fast begins at Fajr. Some communities observe it and others do not, so follow whichever your mosque prints.

High latitudes

Above roughly 48° latitude there are stretches of the year when twilight never fully ends, so Fajr and Isha cannot be calculated directly at all. Conventional rules are applied instead — estimating from the nearest date where the angle does occur, or following the nearest city where it does. Scholars differ over which rule to use, and this is why Ramadan timetables for northern Europe can vary noticeably between mosques.

The Tawhid app carries Ramadan timings with Suhoor and Iftar for your location, and keeps track of the month for you:

• Fasting tracker — mark each day you fast and see the month at a glance
• Qada counter — a running total of make-up fasts you still owe, so days missed are not forgotten once Ramadan ends
• Ramadan date adjustment — shift the calendar by a day or two to match your local moon-sighting authority
• 30 daily Ramadan duas and the Ashra duas, with Arabic, transliteration and translation
• Azan alerts for Fajr and Maghrib, so Suhoor and Iftar reach you without watching the clock