Medan Prayer Times

Prayer Times in Medan, Indonesia

Prayer times in Medan are worked out each day from the city's coordinates (3.58°N). We use the Kemenag method, the one followed across Indonesia. The five times shift by a minute or two each day as the sun moves. The full month is listed below.

Medan's times use the Kemenag method. That is the standard followed by most mosques in Indonesia. They are drawn from Medan's own coordinates (3.5833°N, 98.6667°E). The schedule updates automatically at midnight, with no manual setting.

How Medan's prayer times are worked out

From Medan, the Qibla is 293° from true north. Face northwest to pray toward the Kaaba. It lies 6,645 km (4,129 miles) away in a straight line across the globe. Every time on this page is worked out from Medan's own coordinates (3.58°N, 98.67°E), not a national average. That is why Medan's times and its Qibla differ a little from cities a short distance away.

Medan sits just 3.58°N of the equator. Its prayer calendar barely shifts across the year. With the Kemenag method, the longest daily fast is about 13h 44m. The shortest is about 13h 19m. That is a swing of only 0h 25m 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 Medan come from Kementerian Agama, Indonesia's Ministry of Religious Affairs. The Kemenag method sets Fajr when the sun is 20° 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 Sunggal, Binjai and Belawan. Each is only a few minutes off Medan's clock.

Nearby: Sunggal prayer times · Binjai prayer times · Belawan prayer times · Percut prayer times · Perbaungan prayer times

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Mosques in Medan

Mosques in and around Medan include Masjid Ibnu Sina Smansa, Masjid Ubudiyah, Masjid Jamik, Masjid Agung Medan, Masjid Nurul Muslimin and Mushola. The times on this page are worked out from Medan'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.