Burao Prayer Times

Prayer Times in Burao, Somalia

Buraoprayer times are calculated based on the city's precise geographic coordinates (9.5221°N, 45.5336°E) using the Muslim World League calculation method — the standard followed by most mosques in Somalia. 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 Burao'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 Burao prayer time calendar for the full month is shown below — so you can plan ahead without checking daily.

How Burao's prayer times are worked out

Burao sits 1,457 km (905 miles) from the Kaaba in Mecca, so the Qibla from here is 336° from true north — you face northwest to pray. Fajr and Isha depend on how far the sun drops below the horizon, and Somalia 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 Burao. Measured with the Muslim World League method, the longest daily fast here — from Fajr to Maghrib — runs about 13h 58m around June, while the shortest is roughly 12h 50m in December: a swing of 1h 08m across the year. That spread is set by Burao's latitude (9.52°N); cities nearer the equator barely vary, while far-northern ones swing by many hours.

Burao sits close to the meridian of its Africa/Mogadishu time zone, so the sun peaks within 6 minutes of clock noon and Dhuhr lands near midday — today at 12:05 PM. Dhuhr always tracks the sun's peak, not the clock. The nearest cities we also publish times for are Berbera, Hargeysa, Gebiley — close enough that their times differ from Burao's by only a few minutes.