Ramadan & Hijri Prayer Timetable Nigeria 2026 | Suhur, Iftar, Fajr, Maghrib Times

Knowing today's date on the Islamic calendar, and knowing exactly when to begin and end the daily fast, are two of the most searched pieces of information among Muslims in Nigeria every year. This free tool answers both questions in one place. It converts today's Gregorian date into the Hijri date using a standard tabular calendar calculation, shows whether the current Hijri month is Ramadan, and generates a full daily prayer timetable, Fajr, Sunrise, Dhuhr, Asr, Maghrib and Isha, for any of ten major Nigerian cities, including Lagos, Abuja, Kano, Ibadan, Port Harcourt, Kaduna, Benin City, Maiduguri, Zaria and Sokoto.

The Islamic, or Hijri, calendar is a lunar calendar of twelve months, roughly eleven days shorter than the Gregorian solar year, which is why Ramadan, the ninth month, shifts earlier on the Gregorian calendar each year. Because the calendar is lunar, the precise start and end of each month is traditionally confirmed by the sighting of the new crescent moon, hilal, rather than by arithmetic alone. In Nigeria, moon sighting for Ramadan and the two Eid festivals is typically announced by recognised Islamic bodies such as the Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs, NSCIA, and Jama'atu Nasril Islam, JNI, often in coordination with state-level Hisbah boards in states that operate them, such as Kano, Zamfara and Katsina. This tool's Hijri date is a mathematical estimate using the widely used tabular, or "Kuwaiti," conversion method, and it can occasionally differ by a day from the date confirmed by local moon sighting. For that reason, the tool always displays a reminder to confirm Ramadan's start and end with an official local announcement before adjusting personal fasting plans around it.

The daily prayer times shown here are calculated using astronomical formulas based on the sun's position relative to a chosen city's latitude and longitude. Fajr begins at true dawn, when the first light appears on the horizon, and this is also the moment the pre-dawn meal, Suhur, must end and the fast begins. Maghrib marks sunset and the moment the fast is broken, Iftar. Between these two points sit Dhuhr, the early afternoon prayer, Asr, the late afternoon prayer, and Isha, the night prayer, which together with Fajr and Maghrib make up the five daily obligatory prayers, Salat, observed by practising Muslims year-round, not only in Ramadan.

Because scholars differ slightly on how far below the horizon the sun must be for Fajr and Isha to begin, several calculation methods exist worldwide. This tool defaults to the Egyptian General Authority of Survey method, using a Fajr angle of 19.5 degrees and an Isha angle of 17.5 degrees, which is the convention most widely followed across Nigeria and much of Africa. A Muslim World League option is also available for households or mosques that follow that convention instead. The tool additionally lets users choose between the Shafi and Hanafi schools for calculating Asr time, since the two schools define the shadow-length ratio that marks Asr slightly differently, with Hanafi generally producing a later Asr time than Shafi.

Nigeria spans a wide range of longitudes, from roughly 2.7 degrees east near the western border to over 14 degrees east near Lake Chad, and this produces real differences of several minutes in prayer times between, for example, Lagos and Maiduguri on the same day. Selecting the correct city, or using the "use my location" option to detect the nearest supported city automatically, gives a materially more accurate timetable than relying on a single national timetable.

During Ramadan specifically, the tool highlights two figures above the rest of the timetable: the Suhur cut-off, shown as roughly ten minutes before Fajr as a safety margin many households use to avoid eating past the true start of the fast, and Iftar, which is simply the Maghrib time for that city and date. A live countdown shows the next upcoming prayer or Iftar time, updating automatically while the page is open, which is useful in the final minutes before breaking the fast. Prayer time data is pulled from a public, no-signup calculation service each time the page loads; if that service is temporarily unreachable, the tool displays a clear notice rather than showing stale or incorrect times, and a page refresh usually resolves it.

This timetable is intended as a practical daily reference for Muslims across Nigeria, whether at home, at work, or travelling between states, and is not a substitute for local mosque announcements, particularly around the confirmed start and end dates of Ramadan itself.

Outside of Ramadan, the same underlying timetable remains useful for everyday Salat planning. Many users search for "prayer times near me Nigeria" or "Fajr time today Lagos" simply to plan their work schedule around the five daily prayers, and the tool serves that purpose year-round, not only during the fasting month. Selecting a date in the past or future also updates both the Hijri conversion and the calculated prayer times, which is helpful for checking, for example, what the Hijri date fell on a specific Gregorian date, or for planning ahead to a known upcoming date such as the ninth of Dhu al-Hijjah for the Day of Arafah. Because the calculation runs from the sun's position for the chosen city's coordinates rather than a single blanket national schedule, times update automatically for the date and city selected, without needing a manual lookup table. The result is a single, mobile-friendly page that answers the two questions Nigerian Muslims ask most often around Ramadan: what day is it on the Islamic calendar, and exactly when should I stop eating and when can I break my fast, for wherever in Nigeria they happen to be.