Gelsenkirchen Prayer Times

Prayer Times in Gelsenkirchen, Germany

Prayer times in Gelsenkirchen are worked out each day from the city's coordinates (51.51°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.

Gelsenkirchen's times use the Muslim World League method. That is the standard followed by most mosques in Germany. They are drawn from Gelsenkirchen's own coordinates (51.5051°N, 7.0965°E). The schedule updates automatically at midnight, with no manual setting.

How Gelsenkirchen's prayer times are worked out

From Gelsenkirchen, the Qibla is 127° from true north. Face southeast to pray toward the Kaaba. It lies 4,375 km (2,719 miles) away in a straight line across the globe. Every time on this page is worked out from Gelsenkirchen's own coordinates (51.51°N, 7.10°E), not a national average. That is why Gelsenkirchen's times and its Qibla differ a little from cities a short distance away.

One local quirk shapes the Gelsenkirchen timetable: midday prayer does not land at 12:00. Gelsenkirchen 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 1:38 PM. Across the year, the fast here runs from about 17h 42m near June down to 9h 55m in December.

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

Nearby: Wattenscheid prayer times · Essen prayer times · Bochum prayer times · Herne prayer times · Gladbeck prayer times

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Mosques in Gelsenkirchen

Mosques in and around Gelsenkirchen include Tugra Kultur Zentrum, Al-Noor Moschee, Barbaros Yeni Camii, ZIB-Zentrum für Integration und Bildung in GE e.V., Islamische Union and Fatih Moschee. The times on this page are worked out from Gelsenkirchen'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.