Asmara Prayer Times

Prayer Times in Asmara, Eritrea

Prayer times in Asmara are worked out each day from the city's coordinates (15.34°N). We use the Muslim World League method, the one followed across Eritrea. The five times shift by a minute or two each day as the sun moves. The full month is listed below.

Asmara's times use the Muslim World League method. That is the standard followed by most mosques in Eritrea. They are drawn from Asmara's own coordinates (15.3381°N, 38.9318°E). The schedule updates automatically at midnight, with no manual setting.

How Asmara's prayer times are worked out

From Asmara, the Qibla is 8° from true north. Face north to pray toward the Kaaba. It lies 683 km (424 miles) away in a straight line across the globe. Every time on this page is worked out from Asmara's own coordinates (15.34°N, 38.93°E), not a national average. That is why Asmara's times and its Qibla differ a little from cities a short distance away.

One local quirk shapes the Asmara timetable: midday prayer does not land at 12:00. Asmara lies well west inside its Asmara time zone. So the sun peaks about 33 minutes after clock noon. Dhuhr follows the sun, not the clock — today it falls at 12:09 PM. Across the year, the fast here runs from about 14h 23m near June down to 12h 30m in December.

The Fajr and Isha angles for Asmara 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 Keren, Adwa and Ādīgrat. Each is only a few minutes off Asmara's clock.

Nearby: Keren prayer times · Adwa prayer times · Ādīgrat prayer times · Aksum prayer times · Inda Silasē prayer times

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Mosques in Asmara

Mosques in and around Asmara include مسجد, መስጊድ ኣል ኵላፋ ኣልራሺዲን جامع الخلفاء الراشدين and Mosque Abu Bakr Al Sadiq. The times on this page are worked out from Asmara'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.