Prayer Times in Helsinki — March 2028

Reading the March 2028 table

Prayer times in Helsinki today (Monday, 31 August 2026): Fajr 03:07, Sunrise 06:12, Dhuhr 13:21, Asr 17:04, Maghrib 20:29, Isha 23:15. Times are computed from the city’s coordinates, the Europe/Helsinki timezone (UTC+3 · EEST), the Muslim World League convention and Standard (single-shadow) Asr.

Helsinki sits in Uusimaa, Finland, at 60.1699°, 24.9384°. Those two numbers — latitude and longitude — are the entire geographic input for the timetable. Population on this page is treated as a ranking signal only; the prayer times themselves depend on the sun’s altitude as seen from this point on Earth. The listed population is about 650,000 people.

At this latitude the northern summer night is short and the winter night is long. Fajr and Isha angles are not always reached in midsummer, so the timetable falls back to a night-portion rule (middle of the night by default). That is why Fajr in Helsinki can look “late” in June and Isha “early” compared with cities closer to the equator. In August 2026 sunrise is 06:12 and Maghrib is 20:29 — a useful check of how compressed or stretched the day currently is.

The Muslim World League method is the starting point on this Helsinki page. Fajr and Isha are defined by solar depression angles (or, for Umm al-Qura, a Maghrib-plus-minutes rule). Asr is shown with the Standard shadow factor of 1, used by the Shafi'i, Maliki and Hanbali schools and by most Western mosque boards. If a local mosque publishes a different Fajr or Isha angle, pick that method in the selector or apply a minute offset.

Muslims in Helsinki use a mix of mosque timetables, printed pocket calendars and apps. The figures on this page are meant to sit next to those sources: same coordinates, transparent method, no hidden offset unless you add one.

Qibla from Helsinki is 158.2° from true north (SSE), about 4,464 km from the Kaaba in Makkah. A phone compass is only as good as its calibration; once you have identified a wall that faces that bearing, you can mark it and stop re-measuring every day. Magnetic declination is not applied on this page — the figure is geographic, which is what a qibla diagram expects.

Nearby timetables: prayer times in Saint Petersburg (301 km), prayer times in Stockholm (396 km), prayer times in Oslo (787 km), prayer times in Gothenburg (791 km), prayer times in Malmö (867 km). Neighbouring cities share almost the same latitude, so Fajr and Isha usually differ by one to four minutes — mostly longitude and the minute the time zone snaps to.

The full August grid is on the Helsinki timetable for August 2026. A year view lives at prayer times in Helsinki for 2026. More cities in Finland are listed on the Finland prayer times page. Figures refresh automatically each day.

This page is an astronomical estimate, not a fatwa and not a substitute for the announcement in your local masjid. Some congregations publish a one- to three-minute precaution. If your mosque uses a different Fajr angle, switch the method above or apply a manual minute offset. For personal prayer, a coordinate-based calculation for Helsinki is typically accurate to one or two minutes on a clear horizon.