My Sacred Times provides location-specific prayer and worship times across multiple faith traditions. Because religious schedules can depend on the sun, location, date, calculation method, or established hours of prayer, the times shown may change from day to day or follow different conventions depending on the faith selected.
Choose Your Location
Enter a city or location in the search field and select the correct result, or use Auto-detect to use your current location. If you choose Auto-detect, your browser may ask for permission to access your location.
My Sacred Times uses the selected location to determine local times and, where applicable, calculate solar events such as dawn, sunrise, midday, sunset, and nightfall.
Location matters because the position of the sun changes with latitude, longitude, season, and time zone. Two cities on the same date can therefore have different prayer times even when they follow the same religious tradition.
Choose a Faith
Select a faith to view its daily prayer or worship schedule.
My Sacred Times currently provides schedules for Buddhist, Catholic, Coptic, Hindu, Jewish, Muslim, Orthodox, Protestant, and Sikh traditions.
The schedules are not calculated in the same way for every faith. Some traditions define prayer times closely by solar events. Others use traditional hours, approximate periods of the day, or devotional schedules that may vary by community.
Your Location and Faith Selection
As you move through My Sacred Times, your selected location and faith are carried to other relevant parts of the site, so you do not have to select them again each time. You can change or clear your selections at any time.
Read Today’s Prayer Times
The daily schedule shows the prayers or worship times for your selected faith and location.
A displayed time can mean different things depending on the tradition. For some prayers, it marks a specific solar event or the beginning or end of a period during which the prayer may be observed. For others, it represents a traditional or conventional time associated with an office, prayer, or devotional practice.
Where a time is approximate rather than a strict religious time, My Sacred Times identifies it accordingly.
Click a Prayer to Learn More
Prayer names are linked to additional information. Click a prayer in the daily schedule to learn more about its meaning, place within the tradition, and, where useful, how its timing is determined.
Additional descriptions for the selected faith also appear below the prayer schedule, allowing you to understand the day’s prayers without leaving the page.
The Did You Know? section provides further context about how the selected tradition approaches daily prayer and sacred time.
Change the Date
Use the date controls to move forward or backward and view prayer and worship times for another day. You can also select a specific date to check a past or future schedule.
When the date changes, My Sacred Times recalculates the schedule for the selected location and faith. This is particularly useful for prayers tied to sunrise, sunset, twilight, or seasonal hours because their clock times can change throughout the year.
Where applicable, the page also displays the corresponding date in the selected faith’s religious calendar alongside the civil calendar date.
Why Prayer Times Change
Many religious prayer times are connected directly or indirectly to the movement of the sun.
Sunrise and sunset change throughout the year and vary by location. Dawn and nightfall also depend on how twilight is defined. Some traditions divide the daylight period into proportional or seasonal hours rather than fixed sixty-minute hours.
As a result, a prayer that occurs at one clock time today may occur earlier or later several weeks from now. Other prayers follow conventional hours and may remain at approximately the same clock time throughout the year.
Calculation Methods and Local Practice
There is not always a single universally accepted time for a prayer.
Jewish zmanim may differ according to the halachic calculation method used. Muslim prayer times can vary according to twilight angles, the method used for Asr, and local convention. Christian canonical hours may be observed at traditional clock times or adapted to the schedule of a particular church or religious community.
Hindu, Buddhist, and Sikh practices likewise vary by tradition, region, community, and individual practice.
My Sacred Times uses established timing conventions and identifies important variations where appropriate. When a local religious authority publishes its own schedule, that schedule should take precedence for participation in local services or observances.
Explore the Prayer Reference
For a broader view, visit the Prayer Reference to explore the prayers, offices, and daily observances for any of the faiths covered by My Sacred Times.
Select a faith to see its prayer reference, including explanations of the prayers and their traditional timing. The Prayer Reference also shows today’s prayer times for the selected faith and your selected location, allowing you to move easily between learning about a tradition and seeing its current daily schedule.
Prayer names in the reference are linked to the corresponding prayer information, making it easy to move between the reference material and the daily schedule.
The two sections complement each other: the prayer-times page focuses on the schedule for the faith, location, and date you are viewing, while the Prayer Reference provides a dedicated place to explore prayer practices across all of the faiths covered by the site.
Bookmark or Share a Schedule
Your selected location and faith are included in the page URL. This makes it possible to bookmark a frequently used prayer-times page or share a specific faith and location with someone else.
Because the selections are carried in the URL rather than stored by My Sacred Times, opening that link can restore the relevant location and faith without requiring an account or saved preference.
Because solar-based prayer times change by date, always check the date displayed on the page when returning to a saved schedule.
A Practical Multi-Faith Reference
My Sacred Times is intended to make prayer and worship times easier to find, use, and understand across religious traditions. It provides a practical reference rather than religious rulings or instructions.
Practices can differ among denominations, schools, jurisdictions, congregations, temples, mosques, synagogues, gurdwaras, monasteries, families, and individuals. When precise observance or attendance at a service is important, confirm the schedule with the appropriate local religious community.