Male Prayer Times

Prayer Times in Male, Maldives

Prayer times in Male are worked out each day from the city's coordinates (4.18°N). We use the Karachi method, the one followed across the Maldives. The five times shift by a minute or two each day as the sun moves. The full month is listed below.

Male's times use the Karachi method. That is the standard followed by most mosques in Maldives. They are drawn from Male's own coordinates (4.1752°N, 73.5092°E). The schedule updates automatically at midnight, with no manual setting.

How Male's prayer times are worked out

From Male, the Qibla is 301° from true north. Face northwest to pray toward the Kaaba. It lies 4,109 km (2,553 miles) away in a straight line across the globe. Every time on this page is worked out from Male's own coordinates (4.18°N, 73.51°E), not a national average. That is why Male's times and its Qibla differ a little from cities a short distance away.

Male sits just 4.18°N of the equator. Its prayer calendar barely shifts across the year. With the Karachi method, the longest daily fast is about 13h 38m. The shortest is about 13h 08m. That is a swing of only 0h 30m between June and December. Whenever Ramadan falls, fasting hours here stay much the same — something cities farther from the equator never see.

The Fajr and Isha angles for Male 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 Thiruvananthapuram, Neyyāttinkara and Pallichal. Each is only a few minutes off Male's clock.

Nearby: Thiruvananthapuram prayer times · Neyyāttinkara prayer times · Pallichal prayer times · Nāgercoil prayer times · Kollam prayer times

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Mosques in Male

Mosques in and around Male include Masjidhul Zikra, Masjid Yusuf Al Barbaree, ބިހުރޯޒު ކަމަނާ މިސްކިތް, Masjidhul Salaahuhdheen, Fandiyaaru Mosque and Masjidhul Jalaaluhdheen. The times on this page are worked out from Male'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.