Bristol Prayer Times

These prayer times are calculated for Bristol, in the south-west of England, at 51.4552° N, 2.5966° W, in the Europe/London timezone, so they follow the clocks when British Summer Time begins and ends. They are produced by AllPrayerTime's own calculation engine from those coordinates, following the published methodology, and are not copied from another timetable.

About ten minutes behind London, all year

Bristol lies at almost exactly the same latitude as London, so its days are the same length — within a minute of each other at both solstices. But it is about two and a half degrees further west, so the sun reaches each point in the sky about ten minutes later here than in London, every day of the year. That carries through to every prayer: across the year, each of the seven times in Bristol is published between nine and eleven minutes later than in London, and there is no day on which any of them falls on the same minute. A London timetable read in Bristol is about ten minutes early for every prayer.

Standard and Hanafi Asr

Both Asr times are listed every day: Standard (Mithl 1) and Hanafi (Mithl 2). In Bristol the two are about twenty-nine minutes apart in mid-December, and about an hour and a quarter apart in mid-June. Neither is presented as the correct one — follow the convention you or your mosque use.

Short summer nights

Even this far south, the usual twilight angles are out of reach in high summer. From the fourth week of May to the third week of July the sun does not sink the 18° below the horizon that Fajr is based on, and from the end of May to the middle of July it does not reach the 17° used for Isha. Around the June solstice, Fajr is published at about 3:50am and Isha at about 10:34pm.

When an angle-based time is unavailable, or would fall outside the approved limit, the one-seventh-of-the-night rule sets the published time. Taking the night as sunset to sunrise, Fajr is not placed earlier than the start of its last seventh, and Isha not later than the end of its first seventh; the two are handled separately. In Bristol the limit applies to Fajr from the first week of March to the second week of October, and to Isha from the second week of March to the end of September. From the second half of October until the start of March it is not needed. Each date where it has been applied says so, and shows the angle-based time beside it where one exists. On some days in late May and in the second half of July that angle-based Isha falls after midnight, and it is marked as the next day.

Before you rely on these times

The methodology page explains the angles used, the high-latitude rule, the two small margins added to Dhuhr and Maghrib, how times are rounded to the minute, and how results are checked against independent references.

For congregational prayer, follow your local mosque. Mosques may use different angles, margins or Asr conventions, so jama'ah times — especially Fajr and Isha — can differ from the calculated times on this page. If a time here looks wrong, please report it.