Bir el Ater Prayer Times

Prayer Times in Bir el Ater, Algeria

Bir el Aterprayer times are calculated based on the city's precise geographic coordinates (34.7449°N, 8.0602°E) using the Muslim World League calculation method — the standard followed by most mosques in Algeria. 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 Bir el Ater'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 Bir el Ater prayer time calendar for the full month is shown below — so you can plan ahead without checking daily.

How Bir el Ater's prayer times are worked out

Bir el Ater sits 3,430 km (2,132 miles) from the Kaaba in Mecca, so the Qibla from here is 107° from true north — you face east to pray. Fajr and Isha depend on how far the sun drops below the horizon, and Algeria 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 Bir el Ater. Measured with the Muslim World League method, the longest daily fast here — from Fajr to Maghrib — runs about 16h 16m around June, while the shortest is roughly 11h 20m in December: a swing of 4h 56m across the year. That spread is set by Bir el Ater's latitude (34.74°N); cities nearer the equator barely vary, while far-northern ones swing by many hours.

One local quirk worth knowing: Dhuhr in Bir el Ater does not fall at 12:00. Because the city sits well west within its Africa/Algiers time zone, the sun peaks about 36 minutes after clock noon, and Dhuhr follows the sun rather than the clock — today it is at 12:35 PM. The nearest cities we also publish times for are Cheria, Tébessa, Gafsa — close enough that their times differ from Bir el Ater's by only a few minutes.