Mascara Prayer Times

Prayer Times in Mascara, Algeria

Prayer times in Mascara are worked out each day from the city's coordinates (35.40°N). We use the Muslim World League method, the one followed across Algeria. The five times shift by a minute or two each day as the sun moves. The full month is listed below.

Mascara's times use the Muslim World League method. That is the standard followed by most mosques in Algeria. They are drawn from Mascara's own coordinates (35.3966°N, 0.1403°E). The schedule updates automatically at midnight, with no manual setting.

How Mascara's prayer times are worked out

From Mascara, the Qibla is 101° from true north. Face east to pray toward the Kaaba. It lies 4,147 km (2,577 miles) away in a straight line across the globe. Every time on this page is worked out from Mascara's own coordinates (35.40°N, 0.14°E), not a national average. That is why Mascara's times and its Qibla differ a little from cities a short distance away.

One local quirk shapes the Mascara timetable: midday prayer does not land at 12:00. Mascara lies well west inside its Algiers time zone. So the sun peaks about 68 minutes after clock noon. Dhuhr follows the sun, not the clock — today it falls at 12:58 PM. Across the year, the fast here runs from about 16h 21m near June down to 11h 18m in December.

The Fajr and Isha angles for Mascara 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 Mohammadia, Sig and Relizane. Each is only a few minutes off Mascara's clock.

Nearby: Mohammadia prayer times · Sig prayer times · Relizane prayer times · Mostaganem prayer times · Saïda prayer times

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Mosques in Mascara

Mosques in and around Mascara include Grande Mosquée de Mascara, مسجد علي اين ابي طالب, Mosquée El Islah, مسجد مصعب بن عمير -رضي الله عنه -, مسجد المبايعة and Mosquée de l'Usine. The times on this page are worked out from Mascara'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.