Prayer times in Essen, 2026

Today in Essen

Sunday, 1 November 2026 · 21 Jumada I 1448 AH · local time CET (UTC+1)

Calculated and checked: on all 222 days of 2026 outside Diyanet’s summer period, our six times for Essen are within 3 minutes of Aladhan, an independently written calculator run with the same settings, and on 222 days of 2027 within 4 minutes of Diyanet’s published yearly timetable. Checked on 26 October 2026.

Each time marks the start of a prayer’s window: broadly, Fajr lasts until sunrise (07:18 today), Dhuhr until Asr begins, Asr until sunset and Maghrib until Isha. If you are new to praying in Germany, expect the times to move quickly: this month Maghrib in Essen shifts by up to 2 min and Fajr by up to 2 min from one day to the next, far more than near the equator, so check the table rather than last week’s times.

Essen prayer timetable for November 2026

Every day of the month for Essen; today is highlighted and Fridays are shaded. The Hanafi Asr column appears on wider screens.

Short summer nights in Essen

Essen lies at 51.5° north. In 2026 the longest day here has 16 h 52 min of daylight and the shortest only 8 h 4 min, so Fajr and Isha swing much more over the year than in Turkey, North Africa or South Asia. Around midsummer the sky never gets fully dark: from 10 May to 1 August the sun does not sink far enough below the horizon, and Fajr and Isha are set by a night rule instead (marked * in the table). From 12 April to 1 September Diyanet also switches to its own summer rule for Fajr and Isha, which we cannot reproduce; on those days (marked °) its published Fajr can be up to about 55 minutes later and its Isha up to about 50 minutes earlier than ours. If your mosque follows the Diyanet calendar, use its timetable for those weeks.

Longest day

16 h 52 min of daylight on 21 June

Shortest day

8 h 4 min on 21 December

Earliest Fajr

03:01 on 4 June (night rule)

Latest Isha

23:53 on 26 June (night rule)

Maghrib

earliest 16:30 (9 December), latest 22:00 (20 June)

Sunrise

earliest 05:07 (15 June), latest 08:30 (1 January)

Qibla direction from Essen

The Qibla from Essen is 127° from true north, measured clockwise: roughly south-east. The Kaaba in Makkah is about 4,377 km away along the shortest path over the globe. A phone compass shows magnetic north, which in Germany is currently only a few degrees from true north, so the difference hardly matters when you set up a prayer mat.

Mosques in Essen

Our data lists 19 mosques and Islamic centres in Essen (North Rhine-Westphalia), taken from OpenStreetMap; small prayer rooms are often missing there. Where an entry names a website, it is shown: that is the best place to find the mosque’s own prayer and Jumu’ah times.

• Mosque

  Abu Bakr - Islamischer Bund e.V.

  Altenessener Straße 521, 45329

• Mosque

  Alfaruq Moschee

  Bersonstraße 11, 45141

• Mosque

  Ankara e.V.

  Altendorfer Straße 407, 45143

• Mosque

  Ditib - Bin Merkez Camii

  Helenenstraße 37-39, 45143

• Mosque

  DITIP Türkisch-Islamische Union

• Mosque

  Dzemat Essen e. V.

  Karnaper Straße 243, 45329

• Mosque

  El-Moahidin, Marokkanischer Verein e.V

  Overbergstraße 5, 45141

• Mosque

  Ibn Aafan Moschee

  Bochumer Landstraße 122b, 45276

• Mosque

  IGZ

  Meybuschhof 28, 45327

• Islamic centre

  Integrations- und Bildungszentrum Essen e.V.

  Altendorfer Straße 508, 45355

• Mosque

  Islamische Union

  Auf der Reihe 2, 45327

• Mosque

  Islamischer Verein der in Essen lebenden afghanischen Mitbürger e.V

  Hüttmannstraße 92, 45143

• Mosque

  Jamia Masjid e.V.

  Thiesstraße 12, 45329

  jmpakessen.com

• Islamic centre

  Kulturzentrum Dzemat e.V.

  Rahmstraße 253, 45326

• Mosque

  Merkez-Moschee

  In der Hagenbeck 41, 45143

• Mosque

  Mescidi Hicret

  Kupferdreher Straße 188a, 45257

  muslim-markt.de

• Mosque

  Salâhu d-Dîn Moschee

  ikbze.de

• Mosque

  Verein der türkischen Arbeitnehmer zur islamischen Zusammenarbeit

  Westfalenstraße 202 - 204, 45276

  muslim-markt.de

• Mosque

  Yeni Cami

  Heßlerstraße 115, 45329

All mosques in Essen on a map. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).

Prayer times in nearby cities

Today’s times in the five closest larger cities (50,000+ inhabitants) that have their own page. The sun moves about one degree of longitude every four minutes, so cities further east pray earlier: all five are west of Essen, so their Dhuhr is later. “Dhuhr ±” is the difference to Essen in minutes.

Towns near Essen

• Gelsenkirchen (8 km)
• Bottrop (9 km)
• Mülheim an der Ruhr (10 km)
• Oberhausen (11 km)
• Gladbeck (13 km)
• Hattingen (13 km)
• Velbert (14 km)
• Bochum (14 km)

How the times are calculated

The times are calculated from the position of the sun over the centre of Essen (51.46° N, 7.02° E, from OpenStreetMap), not copied from any timetable. By default we use settings that match the tables Diyanet (Türkiye’s Presidency of Religious Affairs) publishes for German cities: Fajr when the sun is 18° below the horizon, Isha at 16.15°, plus the minute offsets found in those tables (sunrise −7, Dhuhr +5, Asr +4, Maghrib +7 minutes). Asr uses the majority rule (shadow equal to the object’s length plus its midday shadow); the Hanafi time (twice the length) is shown as well.

Before a city gets a page, we compare its times for a whole year with the Aladhan API, an independently written calculator, run with the same settings, and for the largest cities also with Diyanet’s own published yearly table; only cities that stay within 3 minutes on every day outside the summer weeks described above are published (against Diyanet’s table up to 5 minutes in the 7 days before and after those weeks, when its summer rule sets in). For Essen the largest difference was 3 minutes from Aladhan and 4 from Diyanet. Aladhan’s Asr follows a slightly different seasonal pattern than ours (up to 2 to 3 minutes apart), while the other five agree within a minute. Many apps use the Muslim World League method instead (Fajr 18°, Isha 17°, no offsets). Here are both for today: