Essen Prayer Times

Prayer Times in Essen, Germany

Prayer times in Essen are worked out each day from the city's coordinates (51.46°N). We use the Muslim World League method, the one followed across Germany. The five times shift by a minute or two each day as the sun moves. The full month is listed below.

Essen's times use the Muslim World League method. That is the standard followed by most mosques in Germany. They are drawn from Essen's own coordinates (51.4566°N, 7.0123°E). The schedule updates automatically at midnight, with no manual setting.

How Essen's prayer times are worked out

From Essen, the Qibla is 127° from true north. Face southeast to pray toward the Kaaba. It lies 4,377 km (2,720 miles) away in a straight line across the globe. Every time on this page is worked out from Essen's own coordinates (51.46°N, 7.01°E), not a national average. That is why Essen's times and its Qibla differ a little from cities a short distance away.

One local quirk shapes the Essen timetable: midday prayer does not land at 12:00. Essen lies well west inside its Berlin time zone. So the sun peaks about 40 minutes after clock noon. Dhuhr follows the sun, not the clock — today it falls at 12:17 PM. Across the year, the fast here runs from about 17h 41m near June down to 9h 54m in December.

The Fajr and Isha angles for Essen 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 Gelsenkirchen, Wattenscheid and Bottrop. Each is only a few minutes off Essen's clock.

Nearby: Gelsenkirchen prayer times · Wattenscheid prayer times · Bottrop prayer times · Mülheim prayer times · Oberhausen prayer times

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Mosques in Essen

Mosques in and around Essen include El-Moahidin, Marokkanischer Verein e.V, Alfaruq Moschee, Ditib - Bin Merkez Camii, Islamischer Verein der in Essen lebenden afghanischen Mitbürger e.V, Ankara e.V. and Merkez-Moschee. The times on this page are worked out from Essen's own coordinates, and they apply across these mosques. Check the exact iqama time with your local mosque. That is the congregation, called a few minutes after each prayer starts.