Capital: Cairo · Single time zone (EET, UTC+2) · one of the very few Muslim-majority countries that calculates prayer times with its own home-grown formula.
Egypt is one of the few Muslim-majority countries that never adopted a regional convention wholesale — its prayer times are calculated using the Egyptian General Authority of Survey's own solar tables, a formula that predates the wider spread of Umm al-Qura or Muslim World League calculations and is still the basis for the government's annual Ramadan and Eid schedules distributed to mosques nationwide.
Al-Azhar, headquartered in Cairo since the 10th century, remains one of the most influential seats of Sunni religious scholarship anywhere in the world, and its scholars are consulted well beyond Egypt's borders on broader fiqh questions — but the technical business of publishing daily prayer timetables sits with the Survey Authority, not Al-Azhar directly. Geographically, the overwhelming majority of Egyptians live within a narrow ribbon along the Nile Valley and Delta, with the vast Western and Eastern Deserts on either side almost empty, which is why nearly every notable city sits close to the river.
City-level pages with live, minute-by-minute Salah times are being added gradually.
Egypt's Survey Authority has published its own solar-based tables for decades, predating the wider adoption of Saudi or Muslim World League conventions elsewhere in the region, and government-linked calendars have simply continued using it.
Not directly — Al-Azhar is Egypt's leading seat of religious scholarship and is consulted on broader fiqh questions, but the technical publishing of daily prayer times sits with the Survey Authority's own astronomical calculations.
They use the same method, but because so few people live outside the Nile Valley and Delta, published timetables focus almost entirely on the river corridor cities, so smaller desert settlements should use this page's exact-location tool.