Bihār Sharīf Prayer Times

Prayer Times in Bihār Sharīf, India

Prayer times in Bihār Sharīf are worked out each day from the city's coordinates (25.20°N). We use the Karachi method, the one followed across India. The five times shift by a minute or two each day as the sun moves. The full month is listed below.

Bihār Sharīf's times use the Karachi method. That is the standard followed by most mosques in India. They are drawn from Bihār Sharīf's own coordinates (25.2008°N, 85.5239°E). The schedule updates automatically at midnight, with no manual setting.

How Bihār Sharīf's prayer times are worked out

From Bihār Sharīf, the Qibla is 275° from true north. Face west to pray toward the Kaaba. It lies 4,664 km (2,898 miles) away in a straight line across the globe. Every time on this page is worked out from Bihār Sharīf's own coordinates (25.20°N, 85.52°E), not a national average. That is why Bihār Sharīf's times and its Qibla differ a little from cities a short distance away.

Day length is what moves the Bihār Sharīf timetable through the year. With the Karachi method, the longest daily fast — Fajr to Maghrib — runs about 15h 12m around June. It eases to 11h 56m by December. That is a 3h 16m swing, set by the city's latitude of 25.20°N. The farther a place sits from the equator, the wider the gap.

The Fajr and Isha angles for Bihār Sharīf 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. Bihār Sharīf sits close to its Kolkata meridian, so Dhuhr lands near midday — 11:53 AM today. We also publish times for nearby Hilsa, Sheikhpura and Nawāda. Each is only a few minutes off Bihār Sharīf's clock.

Nearby: Hilsa prayer times · Sheikhpura prayer times · Nawāda prayer times · Bārh prayer times · Fatwa prayer times

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