Prayer Times in Manama

Prayer times in Manama — the complete guide

Prayer times are set by the sun, not by the clock on the wall: Fajr begins at dawn twilight, Dhuhr just after the sun passes its highest point, Asr from the length of shadows in the afternoon, Maghrib at sunset, and Isha when the twilight has gone. In Manama those moments are published by the official calendar of the Kingdom of Bahrain (Islamic Affairs), and this page calculates them with exactly that method, in your browser, for the day you open it — so the times you see are never a stale copy of somebody else's table.

Times follow the official Bahraini calendar with Umm al-Qura parameters: Fajr at 18.5° and Isha 90 minutes after Maghrib (120 minutes in Ramadan). This page shows the official (Sunni) calendar; Bahrain also has a Ja'fari calendar whose times, Maghrib especially, can differ by several minutes.

The six times move every day. Across a single month in Manama, Fajr and Maghrib can each drift by ten minutes or more as the season turns, which is why the monthly timetable below matters: it prints every day of the month with its Hijri date alongside, the same way the official printed calendars present it. Use the month buttons to move backwards or forwards — the table is calculated on demand for whichever month you choose, and today's row is always highlighted when you are looking at the current month.

One time deserves a special note: Asr. The majority schools (Shafi'i, Maliki, Hanbali) start Asr when a shadow equals the object's length; the Hanafi school waits until the shadow is twice the length. In Manama the difference is roughly three quarters of an hour, and both communities live here — so this page shows a toggle above the today table. The page opens on the country's official (Shafi'i) Asr; switch to Hanafi if that is your practice. Your choice is stored on your device and applied to the countdown as well; the printed monthly table always uses the country default so it matches the official calendar.

In Ramadan the day is framed by two of these times: Fajr is Imsak, the start of the fast, and Maghrib is Iftar, its end. During Ramadan this page adds a fasting strip that counts down the remaining fast, and the monthly table becomes the month's fasting calendar. The official calendar here also moves Isha to 120 minutes after Maghrib in Ramadan, and our calculation follows it automatically, driven by the Hijri month rather than the Gregorian date.

Finally, a word on precision. These times are calculated for the coordinates of Manama's centre shown above. Sunrise, sunset and twilight shift by seconds across a city, so a mosque at the city's edge may print a time one minute either side of ours; mosques also commonly add a few minutes before the congregational prayer. Treat this page as the accurate astronomical time for the city, and your mosque's board as the authority for its own congregation.