Gaalkacyo Prayer Times

Prayer Times in Gaalkacyo, Somalia

Gaalkacyoprayer times are calculated based on the city's precise geographic coordinates (6.7697°N, 47.4308°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 Gaalkacyo'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 Gaalkacyo prayer time calendar for the full month is shown below — so you can plan ahead without checking daily.

How Gaalkacyo's prayer times are worked out

Gaalkacyo sits 1,823 km (1,133 miles) from the Kaaba in Mecca, so the Qibla from here is 334° 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 Gaalkacyo. Measured with the Muslim World League method, the longest daily fast here — from Fajr to Maghrib — runs about 13h 48m around June, while the shortest is roughly 12h 59m in December: a swing of 0h 49m across the year. That spread is set by Gaalkacyo's latitude (6.77°N); cities nearer the equator barely vary, while far-northern ones swing by many hours.

Gaalkacyo sits close to the meridian of its Africa/Mogadishu time zone, so the sun peaks within 1 minutes of clock noon and Dhuhr lands near midday — today at 11:57 AM. Dhuhr always tracks the sun's peak, not the clock. The nearest cities we also publish times for are Cabudwaaq, Laascaanood, Balanbale — close enough that their times differ from Gaalkacyo's by only a few minutes.