Ash Shafā Prayer Times

Prayer Times in Ash Shafā, Saudi Arabia

Prayer times in Ash Shafā are worked out each day from the city's coordinates (21.07°N). We use the Umm al-Qura method, the one followed across Saudi Arabia. The five times shift by a minute or two each day as the sun moves. The full month is listed below.

Ash Shafā's times use the Umm al-Qura method. That is the standard followed by most mosques in Saudi Arabia. They are drawn from Ash Shafā's own coordinates (21.0727°N, 40.3184°E). The schedule updates automatically at midnight, with no manual setting.

How Ash Shafā's prayer times are worked out

From Ash Shafā, the Qibla is 307° from true north. Face northwest to pray toward the Kaaba. It lies 64 km (40 miles) away in a straight line across the globe. Every time on this page is worked out from Ash Shafā's own coordinates (21.07°N, 40.32°E), not a national average. That is why Ash Shafā's times and its Qibla differ a little from cities a short distance away.

One local quirk shapes the Ash Shafā timetable: midday prayer does not land at 12:00. Ash Shafā lies well west inside its Riyadh time zone. So the sun peaks about 26 minutes after clock noon. Dhuhr follows the sun, not the clock — today it falls at 12:03 PM. Across the year, the fast here runs from about 14h 53m near June down to 12h 12m in December.

The Fajr and Isha angles for Ash Shafā come from Umm al-Qura University, Makkah. The Umm al-Qura method sets Fajr when the sun is 18.5° below the horizon, and Isha 90 minutes after Maghrib. 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 Ta’if, Mecca and Al Līth. Each is only a few minutes off Ash Shafā's clock.

Nearby: Ta’if prayer times · Mecca prayer times · Al Līth prayer times · Jeddah prayer times · Al Bahah prayer times

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