Dire Dawa Prayer Times

Prayer Times in Dire Dawa, Ethiopia

Prayer times in Dire Dawa are worked out each day from the city's coordinates (9.59°N). We use the Muslim World League method, the one followed across Ethiopia. The five times shift by a minute or two each day as the sun moves. The full month is listed below.

Dire Dawa's times use the Muslim World League method. That is the standard followed by most mosques in Ethiopia. They are drawn from Dire Dawa's own coordinates (9.5931°N, 41.8661°E). The schedule updates automatically at midnight, with no manual setting.

How Dire Dawa's prayer times are worked out

From Dire Dawa, the Qibla is 351° from true north. Face north to pray toward the Kaaba. It lies 1,333 km (828 miles) away in a straight line across the globe. Every time on this page is worked out from Dire Dawa's own coordinates (9.59°N, 41.87°E), not a national average. That is why Dire Dawa's times and its Qibla differ a little from cities a short distance away.

Dire Dawa sits just 9.59°N of the equator. Its prayer calendar barely shifts across the year. With the Muslim World League method, the longest daily fast is about 13h 59m. The shortest is about 12h 50m. That is a swing of only 1h 09m between June and December. Whenever Ramadan falls, fasting hours here stay much the same — something cities farther from the equator never see.

The Fajr and Isha angles for Dire Dawa come from the Muslim World League. The Muslim World League method sets Fajr when the sun is 18° below the horizon, and Isha at 17°. Use ISNA's 15° instead and Fajr here would move by several minutes. So the method — not the coordinates alone — settles the final time. We also publish times for nearby ‘Alemaya, Harar and Ārabī. Each is only a few minutes off Dire Dawa's clock.

Nearby: ‘Alemaya prayer times · Harar prayer times · Ārabī prayer times · Jijiga prayer times · Borama prayer times

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