Ahar Prayer Times

Prayer Times in Ahar, Iran

Aharprayer times are calculated based on the city's precise geographic coordinates (38.4774°N, 47.0699°E) using the Tehran calculation method — the standard followed by most mosques in Iran. Times shown are for today's date and update automatically at midnight.

The five daily prayers — Fajr, Dhuhr, Asr, Maghrib, and Isha — are calculated from the sun's position relative to Ahar's latitude and longitude. As the sun's declination changes throughout the year, prayer times shift by several minutes each day. This is why a Ahar prayer time calendar for the full month is shown below — so you can plan ahead without checking daily.

How Ahar's prayer times are worked out

Ahar sits 2,019 km (1,255 miles) from the Kaaba in Mecca, so the Qibla from here is 202° from true north — you face south to pray. Fajr and Isha depend on how far the sun drops below the horizon, and Iran follows the Tehran method set by the Institute of Geophysics, Tehran: Fajr begins when the sun is 17.7° below the horizon, and Isha when it reaches 14°. A city that used ISNA's 15° instead would get a noticeably different Fajr — which is why the method, not just the coordinates, decides the answer.

Day length is what really moves the timetable in Ahar. Measured with the Tehran method, the longest daily fast here — from Fajr to Maghrib — runs about 17h 09m around June, while the shortest is roughly 11h 23m in December: a swing of 5h 46m across the year. That spread is set by Ahar's latitude (38.48°N); cities nearer the equator barely vary, while far-northern ones swing by many hours.

One local quirk worth knowing: Dhuhr in Ahar does not fall at 12:00. Because the city sits well west within its Asia/Tehran time zone, the sun peaks about 29 minutes after clock noon, and Dhuhr follows the sun rather than the clock — today it is at 12:28 PM. The nearest cities we also publish times for are Meshgīn Shahr, Tabriz, Sahand — close enough that their times differ from Ahar's by only a few minutes.