Kiffa Prayer Times

Prayer Times in Kiffa, Mauritania

Prayer times in Kiffa are worked out each day from the city's coordinates (16.62°N). We use the Muslim World League method, the one followed across Mauritania. The five times shift by a minute or two each day as the sun moves. The full month is listed below.

Kiffa's times use the Muslim World League method. That is the standard followed by most mosques in Mauritania. They are drawn from Kiffa's own coordinates (16.6207°N, 11.4021°W). The schedule updates automatically at midnight, with no manual setting.

How Kiffa's prayer times are worked out

From Kiffa, the Qibla is 76° from true north. Face east to pray toward the Kaaba. It lies 5,389 km (3,349 miles) away in a straight line across the globe. Every time on this page is worked out from Kiffa's own coordinates (16.62°N, 11.40°W), not a national average. That is why Kiffa's times and its Qibla differ a little from cities a short distance away.

One local quirk shapes the Kiffa timetable: midday prayer does not land at 12:00. Kiffa lies well west inside its Nouakchott time zone. So the sun peaks about 54 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 29m near June down to 12h 26m in December.

The Fajr and Isha angles for Kiffa 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 Kaédi, Kayes and Nioro. Each is only a few minutes off Kiffa's clock.

Nearby: Kaédi prayer times · Kayes prayer times · Nioro prayer times · Tambacounda prayer times · Néma prayer times

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Mosques in Kiffa

Mosques in and around Kiffa include Mosquée Beit El-Atik, Grande Mosquée de Kiffa الجامع الكبير كيفة and Mosquée Sektar who مسجد سكطار الجامع. The times on this page are worked out from Kiffa'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.