Keren Prayer Times

Prayer Times in Keren, Eritrea

Prayer times in Keren are worked out each day from the city's coordinates (15.78°N). We use the Muslim World League method, the one followed across Eritrea. The five times shift by a minute or two each day as the sun moves. The full month is listed below.

Keren's times use the Muslim World League method. That is the standard followed by most mosques in Eritrea. They are drawn from Keren's own coordinates (15.7779°N, 38.4511°E). The schedule updates automatically at midnight, with no manual setting.

How Keren's prayer times are worked out

From Keren, the Qibla is 13° from true north. Face north to pray toward the Kaaba. It lies 644 km (400 miles) away in a straight line across the globe. Every time on this page is worked out from Keren's own coordinates (15.78°N, 38.45°E), not a national average. That is why Keren's times and its Qibla differ a little from cities a short distance away.

One local quirk shapes the Keren timetable: midday prayer does not land at 12:00. Keren lies well west inside its Asmara time zone. So the sun peaks about 35 minutes after clock noon. Dhuhr follows the sun, not the clock — today it falls at 12:25 PM. Across the year, the fast here runs from about 14h 25m near June down to 12h 29m in December.

The Fajr and Isha angles for Keren 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 Asmara, Adwa and Aksum. Each is only a few minutes off Keren's clock.

Nearby: Asmara prayer times · Adwa prayer times · Aksum prayer times · Inda Silasē prayer times · Ādīgrat prayer times

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Mosques in Keren

Mosques in and around Keren include مسجد عد سيد, جامع أبي and مسجد الصحابة Al-Sahada Mosque. The times on this page are worked out from Keren'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.