Your mosque’s timetable comes first. Times here are calculated.
What the starting setting is here
Places here start on 18° / 17° with the twilight-angle limit, except Sydney, which starts on Fajr 18° with Isha 90 minutes after sunset. It’s a stated starting point, and bodies differ, so please check yours.
Across these places on 21 June 2027, Maghrib runs from 16:43 in Hobart to 18:30 in Darwin, by each place’s own clock. On the starting setting, the earliest Fajr of 2027 is 03:09 in Hobart, the furthest from the equator, and 04:54 in Darwin, the nearest.
How Australian timetables differ
Australian timetables we compared differ mostly at Isha: some use an angle, some a fixed 90 minutes after Maghrib.
| Timetable | Days | Gap with Isha at 17° | Gap with Isha 90 min after sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| Islamic Council of Victoria, Melbourne | 365 | 0.1 min | 6.4 min |
| Lakemba Mosque (Lebanese Muslim Association) | 355 | 7.9 min | 0.3 min |
| United Muslims of Australia, Sydney | 370 | 8.2 min | 0.9 min |
So Melbourne and the other cities start on 18° / 17°, and Sydney starts on Isha 90 minutes after sunset. Fajr at 18° came within 1.3 minutes of all three on average. Sydney’s two timetables print Asr about 8 minutes from ours on average, and no setting of ours closes that gap. We haven’t compared a local timetable for Brisbane, Perth, Adelaide, Canberra, Gold Coast, Darwin, Hobart. Your mosque’s timetable comes first.
Clocks and dates across Australia
Australian cities run on different clocks, and only some change for daylight saving, so clock times for the same prayer differ widely across the country.
| City | Clock zone | Clocks change | Earliest Fajr | Shortest daylight |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sydney | Sydney | back 4 April, forward 3 October | 03:54, 7 December | 9 h 54 min, 17 June |
| Melbourne | Melbourne | back 4 April, forward 3 October | 03:57, 11 December | 9 h 32 min, 21 June |
| Brisbane | Brisbane | No | 03:14, 1 December | 10 h 24 min, 18 June |
| Perth | Perth | No | 03:24, 8 December | 10 h 03 min, 18 June |
| Adelaide | Adelaide | back 4 April, forward 3 October | 04:09, 8 December | 9 h 48 min, 19 June |
| Canberra | Sydney | back 4 April, forward 3 October | 03:55, 9 December | 9 h 46 min, 20 June |
| Gold Coast | Brisbane | No | 03:10, 3 December | 10 h 22 min, 16 June |
| Darwin | Darwin | No | 04:54, 18 November | 11 h 23 min, 17 June |
| Hobart | Hobart | back 4 April, forward 3 October | 03:09, 14 December | 9 h 01 min, 17 June |
Times are for each city’s own clock, whatever your device is set to. Every one of these places has the sun at least 18° below the horizon every night, so no short-night rule is needed with the starting setting.
How to choose a setting
| If your mosque’s timetable shows | Use |
|---|---|
| Isha 66 to 128 minutes after Maghrib, changing with the season | 18° / 17° (the starting setting outside Sydney) |
| Isha exactly 90 minutes after Maghrib every day | 18° / sunset + 90 min (the Sydney starting setting) |
| An Asr 35 to 80 minutes later than ours | Asr: Hanafi |
| None of these, or you aren’t sure | Match my mosque |
What’s been tested
9 of these places were compared with the sources on How we test. 3 of 9 have a local timetable we opened by hand or a published one we compared, and 3 of 9 link to a local mosque’s own page. The rest mark that gap.
Places by region
Queensland
Australian Capital Territory
New South Wales
Northern Territory
South Australia
Tasmania
Victoria
Western Australia
Questions
Why do prayer time sites differ?
They use different angles for Fajr and Isha, different Asr schools and different limits for short nights. Each city page shows the gap for that city.
Are these my mosque’s times?
No. They are calculated from the sun’s position, so your mosque’s timetable comes first. Use Match my mosque to see how close a setting comes.
Why does a place show a gap?
It means we haven’t opened that mosque’s own page or tested that source yet. We don’t copy mosque data or guess links, and links may change.