Al Maţarīyah Prayer Times

Prayer Times in Al Maţarīyah, Egypt

Prayer times in Al Maţarīyah are worked out each day from the city's coordinates (31.18°N). We use the Egyptian method, the one followed across Egypt. The five times shift by a minute or two each day as the sun moves. The full month is listed below.

Al Maţarīyah's times use the Egyptian method. That is the standard followed by most mosques in Egypt. They are drawn from Al Maţarīyah's own coordinates (31.1829°N, 32.0311°E). The schedule updates automatically at midnight, with no manual setting.

How Al Maţarīyah's prayer times are worked out

From Al Maţarīyah, the Qibla is 143° from true north. Face southeast to pray toward the Kaaba. It lies 1,334 km (829 miles) away in a straight line across the globe. Every time on this page is worked out from Al Maţarīyah's own coordinates (31.18°N, 32.03°E), not a national average. That is why Al Maţarīyah's times and its Qibla differ a little from cities a short distance away.

Day length is what moves the Al Maţarīyah timetable through the year. With the Egyptian method, the longest daily fast — Fajr to Maghrib — runs about 15h 59m around June. It eases to 11h 42m by December. That is a 4h 17m swing, set by the city's latitude of 31.18°N. The farther a place sits from the equator, the wider the gap.

The Fajr and Isha angles for Al Maţarīyah come from the Egyptian General Authority of Survey. The Egyptian method sets Fajr when the sun is 19.5° below the horizon, and Isha at 17.5°. Use ISNA's 15° instead and Fajr here would move by several minutes. So the method — not the coordinates alone — settles the final time. Al Maţarīyah sits close to its Cairo meridian, so Dhuhr lands near midday — 12:50 PM today. We also publish times for nearby Al Manzalah, Al Jammālīyah and Port Said. Each is only a few minutes off Al Maţarīyah's clock.

Nearby: Al Manzalah prayer times · Al Jammālīyah prayer times · Port Said prayer times · Damietta prayer times · Al Ḩusaynīyah prayer times

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Mosques in Al Maţarīyah

Mosques in and around Al Maţarīyah include مسجد الرحمة, المسجد الكبير بالعصافرة and مسجد الشعراوى. The times on this page are worked out from Al Maţarīyah's own coordinates, and they apply across these mosques. Check the exact iqama time with your local mosque. That is the congregation, called a few minutes after each prayer starts.