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NURA for travelers: correct prayer times in any timezone, offline

A traveller's prayer times are exactly where ordinary apps fail: a cached city, a wrong timezone after a flight, a server that needs signal you do not have. NURA computes your times on the device, for the precise spot you are standing on — so crossing a border, a timezone, or an ocean changes the answer correctly.

Computed for your coordinates, not a city list

NURA does not look your prayers up in a table. It derives them from solar astronomy for your exact latitude and longitude: Julian day, the sun's declination and the equation of time, then the hour angles for Fajr, Dhuhr, Asr, Maghrib, and Isha. Because the whole calculation runs on your iPhone, it works with the phone in airplane mode, in a valley with no bars, or mid-flight — the same deterministic engine that produces the 10,381 pages of nuraprayer.com.

Timezones and DST handled honestly

The engine takes the UTC offset in force on that date at that place, so daylight-saving transitions and timezone changes resolve correctly instead of drifting by an hour. It also gets the awkward cases right that trip up naive calculators: in a high-latitude summer, Isha can legitimately fall after midnight (London lands near 00:34), and NURA files that Isha under the prayer-day whose Maghrib preceded it — not the calendar day the clock shows — so it never chases a prayer you did not miss.

The convention that matches where you are

Different regions follow different recognised authorities. NURA ships the published conventions so you can match the local masjid wherever you land:

You can also choose the Asr method — standard/Shafi'i (shadow factor 1) or Hanafi (factor 2) — and apply per-prayer minute offsets to match a specific local timetable.

Extreme latitudes, without invention

Far north or south, the sun may never reach the Fajr or Isha angle at all. NURA applies a recognised high-latitude rule you choose (middle of the night, one-seventh of the night, or the twilight-angle method) and marks any time it had to derive that way as adjusted, so you know it came from a rule rather than direct observation. On a true polar day, where no recognised rule applies, it reports the time as unavailable rather than printing a comforting fiction.

Qibla and world clock

The Qibla tab gives the true great-circle bearing to the Kaaba from wherever you are — and returns nothing, honestly, when it has no fix, rather than guessing a direction. A built-in world clock keeps home and destination straight, and the Hijri date travels with you.

Everything, offline and account-free

No sign-in, no server, no data leaving your phone. Set your method once and NURA does the rest wherever the trip takes you.

NURA is coming soon to iPhone — free, from NuroNova Genix Co. (Houston, Texas). The prayer companion that recomputes for every place you stand.