Battir Prayer Times

Prayer Times in Battir, Palestine

Battirprayer times are calculated based on the city's precise geographic coordinates (31.7000°N, 35.1167°E) using the Muslim World League calculation method — the standard followed by most mosques in Palestine. Times shown are for today's date and update automatically at midnight.

The five daily prayers — Fajr, Dhuhr, Asr, Maghrib, and Isha — are calculated from the sun's position relative to Battir's latitude and longitude. As the sun's declination changes throughout the year, prayer times shift by several minutes each day. This is why a Battir prayer time calendar for the full month is shown below — so you can plan ahead without checking daily.

How Battir's prayer times are worked out

Battir sits 1,235 km (767 miles) from the Kaaba in Mecca, so the Qibla from here is 157° from true north — you face southeast to pray. Fajr and Isha depend on how far the sun drops below the horizon, and Palestine follows the Muslim World League method set by the Muslim World League: Fajr begins when the sun is 18° below the horizon, and Isha when it reaches 17°. A city that used ISNA's 15° instead would get a noticeably different Fajr — which is why the method, not just the coordinates, decides the answer.

Day length is what really moves the timetable in Battir. Measured with the Muslim World League method, the longest daily fast here — from Fajr to Maghrib — runs about 15h 53m around June, while the shortest is roughly 11h 32m in December: a swing of 4h 21m across the year. That spread is set by Battir's latitude (31.70°N); cities nearer the equator barely vary, while far-northern ones swing by many hours.

One local quirk worth knowing: Dhuhr in Battir does not fall at 12:00. Because the city sits well east within its Asia/Jerusalem time zone, the sun peaks about 12 minutes before clock noon, and Dhuhr follows the sun rather than the clock — today it is at 12:47 PM. The nearest cities we also publish times for are East Jerusalem, Hebron, Ramallah — close enough that their times differ from Battir's by only a few minutes.