Bāmyān Prayer Times

Prayer Times in Bāmyān, Afghanistan

Prayer times in Bāmyān are worked out each day from the city's coordinates (34.82°N). We use the Karachi method, the one followed across Afghanistan. The five times shift by a minute or two each day as the sun moves. The full month is listed below.

Bāmyān's times use the Karachi method. That is the standard followed by most mosques in Afghanistan. They are drawn from Bāmyān's own coordinates (34.8216°N, 67.8273°E). The schedule updates automatically at midnight, with no manual setting.

How Bāmyān's prayer times are worked out

From Bāmyān, the Qibla is 249° from true north. Face west to pray toward the Kaaba. It lies 3,108 km (1,931 miles) away in a straight line across the globe. Every time on this page is worked out from Bāmyān's own coordinates (34.82°N, 67.83°E), not a national average. That is why Bāmyān's times and its Qibla differ a little from cities a short distance away.

Day length is what moves the Bāmyān timetable through the year. With the Karachi method, the longest daily fast — Fajr to Maghrib — runs about 16h 16m around June. It eases to 11h 19m by December. That is a 4h 57m swing, set by the city's latitude of 34.82°N. The farther a place sits from the equator, the wider the gap.

The Fajr and Isha angles for Bāmyān come from the University of Islamic Sciences, Karachi. The Karachi method sets Fajr when the sun is 18° below the horizon, and Isha at 18°. Use ISNA's 15° instead and Fajr here would move by several minutes. So the method — not the coordinates alone — settles the final time. Bāmyān sits west of its Kabul meridian. The sun peaks about 7 minutes after noon, so Dhuhr today is 11:57 AM. We also publish times for nearby Bāzār-e Yakāwlang, Charikar and Kabul. Each is only a few minutes off Bāmyān's clock.

Nearby: Bāzār-e Yakāwlang prayer times · Charikar prayer times · Kabul prayer times · Pul-e Khumrī prayer times · Ghazni prayer times

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