Bakersfield Prayer Times

Prayer Times in Bakersfield, California

Prayer times in Bakersfield are worked out each day from the city's coordinates (35.37°N). We use the ISNA method, the one followed across California. The five times shift by a minute or two each day as the sun moves. The full month is listed below.

Bakersfield's times use the ISNA method. That is the standard used by most mosques in California and across the United States. They are drawn from Bakersfield's own coordinates (35.3733°N, 119.0187°W). The schedule updates automatically at midnight, with no manual setting.

How Bakersfield's prayer times are worked out

From Bakersfield, the Qibla is 23° from true north. Face northeast to pray toward the Kaaba. It lies 13,317 km (8,275 miles) away in a straight line across the globe. Every time on this page is worked out from Bakersfield's own coordinates (35.37°N, 119.02°W), not a national average. That is why Bakersfield's times and its Qibla differ a little from cities a short distance away.

One local quirk shapes the Bakersfield timetable: midday prayer does not land at 12:00. Bakersfield lies well west inside its Los Angeles time zone. So the sun peaks about 64 minutes after clock noon. Dhuhr follows the sun, not the clock — today it falls at 12:54 PM. Across the year, the fast here runs from about 15h 59m near June down to 11h 02m in December.

The Fajr and Isha angles for Bakersfield come from the Islamic Society of North America. The ISNA method sets Fajr when the sun is 15° below the horizon, and Isha at 15°. 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 Los Angeles, Fresno and Long Beach. Each is only a few minutes off Bakersfield's clock.

Nearby: Los Angeles prayer times · Fresno prayer times · Long Beach prayer times · Anaheim prayer times · Santa Ana prayer times

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