About this site
About Cambridge Prayer Times
Cambridge Prayer Times gives the prayer times for Cambridge, worked out for the city itself, every day of the year. It is part of the Muslims Around the World network.
Who runs it
Cambridge Prayer Times is one of a family of Islamic websites made by Muslims Around the World. Each does one job well: a city’s prayer times, a Ramadan timetable, a surah, a dua. Every one is on the Muslims Around the World sites page.
Muslims Around the World is protecting the legacy of Ali Banat, may Allah have mercy on him, and every site in the family is part of that work. Read his story.
You can learn more with us at Islamic shorts, duas and Quran recitations: short reminders from scholars, duas with their meaning, Quran recitations and prayer times.
The site is free, has no third-party adverts and needs no account.
How the times are worked out
- Place
- Central Cambridge, 52.2055° N, 0.1187° E, from OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors)
- Clocks
- UK time (Europe/London), with British Summer Time
- Method
- Moonsighting Committee: Fajr and Isha at 18° with seasonal limits; a seventh of the night from 55° north. The same method muslimsaroundtheworld.org uses here
- Asr
- Standard (Shafi‘i, Maliki, Hanbali) (switch to Hanafi on any timetable)
- Short summer nights
- When the sun doesn't get low enough for the angle, Fajr and Isha follow the Moonsighting Committee’s seasonal rule: a limit before sunrise for Fajr, and after sunset for Isha, worked out from the city’s latitude and the time of year
- Hijri dates
- The Umm al-Qura calendar; UK moon-sighting announcements can be a day later
- Calculation
- An open-source astronomical calculation (the adhan library by Batoul Apps, MIT licence) works out where the sun is over Cambridge each day; times are rounded to the minute
- Areas
- Area names and positions: GeoNames (geonames.org), CC BY 4.0. Each area’s times are worked out for its own position
- Mosques
- Jamaat times are often a few minutes after these start times, and some mosques use another method for Fajr and Isha. For congregation, follow your mosque
Why a Cambridge timetable
Cambridge’s times differ from London’s by a few minutes, and in different directions as the year turns. Zuhr is earlier all year, Maghrib earlier in winter but later in summer, and summer Fajr earlier still. Cambridge Prayer Times calculates each day for the city itself, so there is no seasonal correction to remember.
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Our method for Cambridge
- The place. Central Cambridge, 52.206° N, 0.119° E, the point OpenStreetMap gives for the city.
- Fajr and Isha. The moments the sun is 18° below the horizon, within the Moonsighting Committee’s seasonal limits.
- Zuhr and Asr. Five minutes after the sun is highest; when shadows have grown by their object’s height (twice that for the Hanafi time).
- Maghrib. Three minutes after sunset.
- The clock. UK clock time, rounded to the minute.
After the prayer, the duas many read once the salam is said are gathered in the duas after namaz from Muslims Around the World.