Jackson Prayer Times

Prayer Times in Jackson, Mississippi

Prayer times in Jackson are worked out each day from the city's coordinates (32.30°N). We use the ISNA method, the one followed across Mississippi. The five times shift by a minute or two each day as the sun moves. The full month is listed below.

Jackson's times use the ISNA method. That is the standard used by most mosques in Mississippi and across the United States. They are drawn from Jackson's own coordinates (32.2988°N, 90.1848°W). The schedule updates automatically at midnight, with no manual setting.

How Jackson's prayer times are worked out

From Jackson, the Qibla is 49° from true north. Face northeast to pray toward the Kaaba. It lies 12,021 km (7,469 miles) away in a straight line across the globe. Every time on this page is worked out from Jackson's own coordinates (32.30°N, 90.18°W), not a national average. That is why Jackson's times and its Qibla differ a little from cities a short distance away.

One local quirk shapes the Jackson timetable: midday prayer does not land at 12:00. Jackson lies well west inside its Chicago time zone. So the sun peaks about 69 minutes after clock noon. Dhuhr follows the sun, not the clock — today it falls at 12:59 PM. Across the year, the fast here runs from about 15h 38m near June down to 11h 15m in December.

The Fajr and Isha angles for Jackson 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 Baton Rouge, New Orleans and Memphis. Each is only a few minutes off Jackson's clock.

Nearby: Baton Rouge prayer times · New Orleans prayer times · Memphis prayer times · Little Rock prayer times · Shreveport prayer times

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