Maheshtala Prayer Times

Prayer Times in Maheshtala, India

Prayer times in Maheshtala are worked out each day from the city's coordinates (22.51°N). We use the Karachi method, the one followed across India. The five times shift by a minute or two each day as the sun moves. The full month is listed below.

Maheshtala's times use the Karachi method. That is the standard followed by most mosques in India. They are drawn from Maheshtala's own coordinates (22.5086°N, 88.2532°E). The schedule updates automatically at midnight, with no manual setting.

How Maheshtala's prayer times are worked out

From Maheshtala, the Qibla is 278° from true north. Face west to pray toward the Kaaba. It lies 4,973 km (3,090 miles) away in a straight line across the globe. Every time on this page is worked out from Maheshtala's own coordinates (22.51°N, 88.25°E), not a national average. That is why Maheshtala's times and its Qibla differ a little from cities a short distance away.

One local quirk shapes the Maheshtala timetable: midday prayer does not land at 12:00. Maheshtala lies well east inside its Kolkata time zone. So the sun peaks about 14 minutes before clock noon. Dhuhr follows the sun, not the clock — today it falls at 11:43 AM. Across the year, the fast here runs from about 14h 57m near June down to 12h 06m in December.

The Fajr and Isha angles for Maheshtala come from the University of Islamic Sciences, Karachi. The Karachi method sets Fajr when the sun is 18° below the horizon, and Isha at 18°. 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 Budge Budge, Howrah and Bankra. Each is only a few minutes off Maheshtala's clock.

Nearby: Budge Budge prayer times · Howrah prayer times · Bankra prayer times · Kolkata prayer times · Uluberiya prayer times

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