Grand Rapids Prayer Times

Prayer Times in Grand Rapids, Michigan

Prayer times in Grand Rapids are worked out each day from the city's coordinates (42.96°N). We use the ISNA method, the one followed across Michigan. The five times shift by a minute or two each day as the sun moves. The full month is listed below.

Grand Rapids's times use the ISNA method. That is the standard used by most mosques in Michigan and across the United States. They are drawn from Grand Rapids's own coordinates (42.9634°N, 85.6681°W). The schedule updates automatically at midnight, with no manual setting.

How Grand Rapids's prayer times are worked out

From Grand Rapids, the Qibla is 50° from true north. Face northeast to pray toward the Kaaba. It lies 10,945 km (6,801 miles) away in a straight line across the globe. Every time on this page is worked out from Grand Rapids's own coordinates (42.96°N, 85.67°W), not a national average. That is why Grand Rapids's times and its Qibla differ a little from cities a short distance away.

One local quirk shapes the Grand Rapids timetable: midday prayer does not land at 12:00. Grand Rapids lies well west inside its Detroit time zone. So the sun peaks about 111 minutes after clock noon. Dhuhr follows the sun, not the clock — today it falls at 1:47 PM. Across the year, the fast here runs from about 17h 09m near June down to 10h 26m in December.

The Fajr and Isha angles for Grand Rapids come from the Islamic Society of North America. The ISNA method sets Fajr when the sun is 15° below the horizon, and Isha at 15°. 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 Lansing, Flint and Ann Arbor. Each is only a few minutes off Grand Rapids's clock.

Nearby: Lansing prayer times · Flint prayer times · Ann Arbor prayer times · Milwaukee prayer times · Pontiac prayer times

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