Travel Prayer Guide for Muslims
Everything you need to keep your prayers on time while you travel: how to pray on a plane, how in-flight prayer times are worked out, finding the Qibla in the air, making wudu when flying, and using the traveler's concessions to shorten and combine prayers. Each guide is short, practical and links straight into the SkySalah app.
The guides
How to Pray on a Plane
The practical basics: pray on the ground when you can, stand and face the Qibla if it is safe, or pray seated with gestures, plus qasr, jam and wudu.
In-Flight Prayer Times Calculator
Why salah times shift as you cross time zones and rise in altitude, which prayers fall during your flight, and how the calculator works them out along your route.
Qibla Direction on a Plane
Why the direction to Mecca keeps changing in flight, how to find it, and what to do if you cannot face it.
Combining and Shortening Prayers When Traveling
How qasr shortens the four-rakah prayers to two, how jam combines Dhuhr with Asr and Maghrib with Isha, and how the schools differ.
Wudu on a Plane
Making wudu before you board, renewing it in the lavatory, and when tayammum (dry ablution) applies.
How to Pray While Traveling
The broader picture for any journey by plane, car or train: keeping prayers on time, the concessions, and praying on the move.
Do Prayer Times Change When You Travel?
Why prayer times follow the sun at your location, and why you switch to your destination's times rather than your home city's.
Fasting While Traveling in Ramadan
The traveler's concession to break the fast, how suhoor and iftar times shift across time zones, and when to open your fast on a plane.
Prayer times and Qibla for your journey
SkySalah is a free, offline app that gives Muslim travelers in-flight and on-ground prayer times and the live Qibla, with no account and no ads.
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