Hafar Al-Batin Prayer Times

Prayer Times in Hafar Al-Batin, Saudi Arabia

Hafar Al-Batinprayer times are calculated based on the city's precise geographic coordinates (28.4328°N, 45.9708°E) using the Umm al-Qura calculation method — the standard followed by most mosques in Saudi Arabia. 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 Hafar Al-Batin'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 Hafar Al-Batin prayer time calendar for the full month is shown below — so you can plan ahead without checking daily.

How Hafar Al-Batin's prayer times are worked out

Hafar Al-Batin sits 995 km (618 miles) from the Kaaba in Mecca, so the Qibla from here is 220° from true north — you face southwest to pray. Fajr and Isha depend on how far the sun drops below the horizon, and Saudi Arabia follows the Umm al-Qura method set by Umm al-Qura University, Makkah: Fajr begins when the sun is 18.5° below the horizon, and Isha is fixed at 90 minutes after Maghrib rather than an angle. 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 Hafar Al-Batin. Measured with the Umm al-Qura method, the longest daily fast here — from Fajr to Maghrib — runs about 15h 35m around June, while the shortest is roughly 11h 47m in December: a swing of 3h 48m across the year. That spread is set by Hafar Al-Batin's latitude (28.43°N); cities nearer the equator barely vary, while far-northern ones swing by many hours.

Hafar Al-Batin sits close to the meridian of its Asia/Riyadh time zone, so the sun peaks within 4 minutes of clock noon and Dhuhr lands near midday — today at 12:02 PM. Dhuhr always tracks the sun's peak, not the clock. The nearest cities we also publish times for are Al Farwānīyah, Al Aḩmadī, Kuwait City — close enough that their times differ from Hafar Al-Batin's by only a few minutes.