Aksum Prayer Times

Prayer Times in Aksum, Ethiopia

Prayer times in Aksum are worked out each day from the city's coordinates (14.12°N). We use the Muslim World League method, the one followed across Ethiopia. The five times shift by a minute or two each day as the sun moves. The full month is listed below.

Aksum's times use the Muslim World League method. That is the standard followed by most mosques in Ethiopia. They are drawn from Aksum's own coordinates (14.1211°N, 38.7234°E). The schedule updates automatically at midnight, with no manual setting.

How Aksum's prayer times are worked out

From Aksum, the Qibla is 8° from true north. Face north to pray toward the Kaaba. It lies 820 km (510 miles) away in a straight line across the globe. Every time on this page is worked out from Aksum's own coordinates (14.12°N, 38.72°E), not a national average. That is why Aksum's times and its Qibla differ a little from cities a short distance away.

One local quirk shapes the Aksum timetable: midday prayer does not land at 12:00. Aksum lies well west inside its Addis Ababa time zone. So the sun peaks about 34 minutes after clock noon. Dhuhr follows the sun, not the clock — today it falls at 12:23 PM. Across the year, the fast here runs from about 14h 18m near June down to 12h 34m in December.

The Fajr and Isha angles for Aksum come from the Muslim World League. The Muslim World League method sets Fajr when the sun is 18° below the horizon, and Isha at 17°. Use ISNA's 15° instead and Fajr here would move by several minutes. So the method — not the coordinates alone — settles the final time. We also publish times for nearby Adwa, Inda Silasē and Ādīgrat. Each is only a few minutes off Aksum's clock.

Nearby: Adwa prayer times · Inda Silasē prayer times · Ādīgrat prayer times · Wik’ro prayer times · Mek'ele prayer times

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