🔌 Prayer Times API for Developers

Base URL

https://times.afkaark.com/api/v1/

1. List of all cities

GET /api/v1/cities.json

Returns a list of all available cities with their id, country, coordinates, and the URL for their prayer-times data, for building a city picker in your app.

2. Prayer times for a specific city

GET /api/v1/times/{country}/{city_id}.json

Example: /api/v1/times/egypt/cairo.json

Returns the five daily prayer times plus sunrise for the current day, along with the Qibla direction, the distance to the Kaaba, and the calculation method used for that city. Sample response:

{
  "city": {"id": "cairo", "name_en": "Cairo", "country": "egypt"},
  "date": "2026-08-29",
  "method": "Egyptian General Authority of Survey",
  "times": {"fajr": "04:12", "sunrise": "05:41", "dhuhr": "12:03", "asr": "15:29", "maghrib": "18:24", "isha": "19:47"},
  "qibla": {"angle": 136.02, "distance_km": 1240.5},
  "source": "https://times.afkaark.com/en/egypt/cairo/"
}

Quick usage examples

JavaScript (fetch):

fetch("https://times.afkaark.com/api/v1/times/egypt/cairo.json")
  .then(r => r.json())
  .then(data => console.log(data.times));

Python:

import requests
r = requests.get("https://times.afkaark.com/api/v1/times/egypt/cairo.json")
print(r.json()["times"])

cURL:

curl https://times.afkaark.com/api/v1/times/egypt/cairo.json

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