About prayer times in Madrid
Madrid is home to one of the largest and most organised Muslim communities in Spain, shaped by decades of migration from Morocco, Senegal, Pakistan, and Bangladesh, as well as a growing number of Spanish converts. The Centro Cultural Islámico de Madrid — commonly known as the M-30 Mosque — stands as the most prominent Islamic landmark in the city, its minaret visible from the ring road. Inaugurated in 1992 with support from the King of Saudi Arabia, it remains the largest mosque on the Iberian Peninsula and a spiritual and cultural anchor for tens of thousands of Madrid's Muslim residents. Beyond the M-30, the Mezquita Abu-Bakr in the Lavapiés district serves a vibrant, cosmopolitan congregation. The Spanish Federation of Islamic Religious Entities (FEERI) coordinates Friday prayers, Ramadan timings, and Eid celebrations across the capital. Prayer times in Madrid follow the Muslim World League (MWL) standard — method 3 in the Aladhan calculation engine — which is the convention officially endorsed by FEERI and widely adopted across Spain. Fajr, Dhuhr, Asr, Maghrib, and Isha times shift throughout the year in line with Madrid's mid-latitude position at approximately 40°N. Adhan Salaty publishes these times daily, sourced directly from the open-source Aladhan API, ensuring accurate and up-to-date prayer schedules for every day of the year.
How prayer times are calculated for Madrid
We compute prayer times for Madrid from the city's geographic centre at latitude 40.4168°N, longitude -3.7038°W, using the Muslim World League (Fajr 18°, Isha 17°) method. That is the convention used by the Federación Española de Entidades Religiosas Islámicas (FEERI) and the Comisión Islámica de España and by most mosques across Spain, so the times you see here usually line up with what local Madrid mosques announce as the start of each prayer.
Each calculation depends on where the sun sits relative to Madrid's horizon at any given moment. Fajr begins when the sun reaches 18 degrees below the eastern horizon at dawn. Sunrise is the moment the upper edge of the sun first crosses the horizon. Dhuhr is true solar noon for Madrid's longitude, with a one-minute settling adjustment. Asr uses the standard shadow rule: the prayer starts when an object's shadow equals its own height plus the residual noon shadow. Maghrib starts at sunset, and Isha starts when the sun drops to 17 degrees below the western horizon at dusk. We pull fresh values from the Aladhan API every day and cache them for 24 hours per city.
Daylight and Ramadan in Madrid
Madrid sits at a mid-northern latitude (40.42°N), so daylight changes noticeably with the season. On the summer solstice in late June, Madrid gets about 14 hours 53 minutes of daylight. On the winter solstice in late December, that drops to roughly 9 hours 7 minutes. The annual swing is close to 5 hours 47 minutes, and that gap is what shapes the daily fasting window in Ramadan.
When Ramadan falls in summer, as it last did in 2014–2017 and will again in 2042–2045, Muslims in Madrid fast from Fajr to Maghrib for close to 13 hours 53 minutes. When Ramadan falls in winter, as it will in 2027–2030, the window shrinks to roughly 8 hours 37 minutes. The next Ramadan (1448 AH, starting around 15 February 2027) falls in late winter for Madrid, so fasting days are moderate to short. In northern Spain Isha can fall after 23:00 in late June, and Fajr arrives before 04:30: that is what summer Ramadan tends to look like in Spain.
Iqamah practice and congregational prayer in Madrid
Adhan Salaty publishes calculated adhan times: the moment each prayer's astronomical window opens. Mosques in Madrid publish iqamah times instead, which sit a few minutes after the adhan to give worshippers time to arrive and prepare. Most Spanish mosques wait 20 to 30 minutes after the Fajr adhan before iqamah, and 10 to 15 minutes for the four daytime prayers. Maghrib iqamah is shorter, often only 5 to 10 minutes after the adhan, because the Maghrib window itself is brief and the prayer has to finish before Isha starts.
Practice varies between mosques even inside Madrid, depending on community tradition and what the congregation prefers. Centro Cultural Islámico de Madrid (M-30) publishes its own iqamah schedule on its noticeboard and website, and two Madrid mosques can differ by ten or fifteen minutes for the same prayer. For congregational prayer, defer to your local mosque's published iqamah times rather than the calculated adhan times shown here. For private prayer at home or while travelling, the calculated adhan times on this page are accurate to within a minute.
Friday prayer (Jumu'ah) in Madrid
Friday prayer (Yumu'a) usually happens between 14:00 and 15:00, depending on the season. In Madrid, the Jumu'ah service replaces the Friday Dhuhr for anyone who attends in congregation. It is a two-part khutbah followed by two cycles of congregational prayer, and the full service usually runs 30 to 45 minutes from the first khutbah to the end of prayer.
With 2 notable mosques listed for Madrid, worshippers have a choice of congregations. Larger Spanish mosques in city-centre locations often run several Jumu'ah sittings so office workers can attend; the first sitting starts close to Dhuhr and a second sitting follows roughly 45 minutes later. Khutbah language varies by mosque. In Madrid most of the sermon is usually delivered in English, with the formal opening, Quranic recitation and supplication in Arabic. Some mosques add portions in community languages such as Urdu, Bengali, Arabic, Somali or Turkish.
Notable mosques and Islamic centres in Madrid
We list 2 notable mosques for Madrid, taken from public sources and cross-checked against each mosque's own publication. Centro Cultural Islámico de Madrid (M-30); Mezquita Abu-Bakr. These institutions handle the city's main congregational prayers, run taraweeh during Ramadan, and look after community work like funeral services, marriage registrations and Islamic education.
The list is not exhaustive. Madrid has many smaller community prayer rooms, family-led gatherings and pop-up congregations that we don't include here. The mosques shown are the most publicly recognised ones with verifiable street addresses. To suggest an addition or report a correction, get in touch with the editorial team. Mosque addresses are reviewed quarterly against public directories like FEERI and the Junta Islámica directory.
Halal food and community in Madrid
Madrid has a growing halal food scene with Maghrebi, sub-Saharan, Arab, Pakistani and Turkish kitchens, plus Spanish halal certification through Instituto Halal: restaurants, butchers and grocery stores selling halal-certified meat under recognised certification bodies. With a metropolitan population of about 3,223,334, Madrid's halal scene clusters around mosques and historically Muslim residential neighbourhoods, with newer halal-friendly chains opening in city-centre and suburban shopping districts.
Beyond food, Madrid's Muslim community is supported by Islamic schools, weekend madrasas, charities running zakat and food bank programmes, and sister-city links to communities elsewhere in the Muslim world. Adhan Salaty does not keep a directory of these resources. For specific community services, contact the institutions listed in the mosques section above; they usually maintain or signpost what's available locally.
Visiting Madrid and praying as a traveller
If you're visiting Madrid, you can use Adhan Salaty to plan prayer times during the trip. The five daily prayers stay obligatory wherever you are. The times shown on this page apply to the city centre and immediate surroundings; geographic variation inside the metropolitan area is under a minute, well within standard observance precision. The city's time zone is Europe/Madrid, which Adhan Salaty handles automatically through the Aladhan API.
Islamic jurisprudence allows travellers to combine and shorten certain prayers (qasr and jam'). Dhuhr and Asr can be combined and shortened to two cycles each, and Maghrib (still three cycles) can be combined with Isha (shortened to two). The threshold distance and travel circumstances that trigger these dispensations vary between schools of thought. Mosques in Madrid are used to serving travelling Muslims and welcome visitors at all five congregational prayers and at Jumu'ah on Fridays.
