Al Khafjī Prayer Times

Prayer Times in Al Khafjī, Saudi Arabia

Al Khafjīprayer times are calculated based on the city's precise geographic coordinates (28.4391°N, 48.4913°E) using the Umm al-Qura calculation method — the standard followed by most mosques in Saudi Arabia. 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 Al Khafjī'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 Al Khafjī prayer time calendar for the full month is shown below — so you can plan ahead without checking daily.

How Al Khafjī's prayer times are worked out

Al Khafjī sits 1,171 km (727 miles) from the Kaaba in Mecca, so the Qibla from here is 230° from true north — you face southwest to pray. Fajr and Isha depend on how far the sun drops below the horizon, and Saudi Arabia follows the Umm al-Qura method set by Umm al-Qura University, Makkah: Fajr begins when the sun is 18.5° below the horizon, and Isha is fixed at 90 minutes after Maghrib rather than an angle. 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 Al Khafjī. Measured with the Umm al-Qura method, the longest daily fast here — from Fajr to Maghrib — runs about 15h 34m around June, while the shortest is roughly 11h 47m in December: a swing of 3h 47m across the year. That spread is set by Al Khafjī's latitude (28.44°N); cities nearer the equator barely vary, while far-northern ones swing by many hours.

Al Khafjī sits close to the meridian of its Asia/Riyadh time zone, so the sun peaks within 6 minutes of clock noon and Dhuhr lands near midday — today at 11:52 AM. Dhuhr always tracks the sun's peak, not the clock. The nearest cities we also publish times for are Al Faḩāḩīl, Al Aḩmadī, Ar Riqqah — close enough that their times differ from Al Khafjī's by only a few minutes.