Kano Prayer Times

Prayer Times in Kano, Nigeria

Prayer times in Kano are worked out each day from the city's coordinates (12.00°N). We use the Muslim World League method, the one followed across Nigeria. The five times shift by a minute or two each day as the sun moves. The full month is listed below.

Kano's times use the Muslim World League method. That is the standard followed by most mosques in Nigeria. They are drawn from Kano's own coordinates (12.0001°N, 8.5167°E). The schedule updates automatically at midnight, with no manual setting.

How Kano's prayer times are worked out

From Kano, the Qibla is 68° from true north. Face east to pray toward the Kaaba. It lies 3,487 km (2,167 miles) away in a straight line across the globe. Every time on this page is worked out from Kano's own coordinates (12.00°N, 8.52°E), not a national average. That is why Kano's times and its Qibla differ a little from cities a short distance away.

One local quirk shapes the Kano timetable: midday prayer does not land at 12:00. Kano lies well west inside its Lagos time zone. So the sun peaks about 34 minutes after clock noon. Dhuhr follows the sun, not the clock — today it falls at 12:31 PM. Across the year, the fast here runs from about 14h 09m near June down to 12h 42m in December.

The Fajr and Isha angles for Kano 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 Malumfashi, Zaria and Chakwama. Each is only a few minutes off Kano's clock.

Nearby: Malumfashi prayer times · Zaria prayer times · Chakwama prayer times · Funtua prayer times · Katsina prayer times

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Mosques in Kano

Mosques in and around Kano include Yolawa, masallacin madaki, Babban Masallacin Juma'a (Kano Central Mosque), Masallacin Idi, Massalacin wudilawa, Umar Bin Khattab and Umar Bin Khattab Juma'at Masjid. The times on this page are worked out from Kano'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.