Medina Prayer Times

Prayer Times in Medina, Saudi Arabia

Prayer times in Medina are worked out each day from the city's coordinates (24.47°N). We use the Umm al-Qura method, the one followed across Saudi Arabia. The five times shift by a minute or two each day as the sun moves. The full month is listed below.

Medina's times use the Umm al-Qura method. That is the standard followed by most mosques in Saudi Arabia. They are drawn from Medina's own coordinates (24.4686°N, 39.6142°E). The schedule updates automatically at midnight, with no manual setting.

How Medina's prayer times are worked out

From Medina, the Qibla is 176° from true north. Face south to pray toward the Kaaba. It lies 339 km (211 miles) away in a straight line across the globe. Every time on this page is worked out from Medina's own coordinates (24.47°N, 39.61°E), not a national average. That is why Medina's times and its Qibla differ a little from cities a short distance away.

One local quirk shapes the Medina timetable: midday prayer does not land at 12:00. Medina lies well west inside its Riyadh time zone. So the sun peaks about 29 minutes after clock noon. Dhuhr follows the sun, not the clock — today it falls at 12:27 PM. Across the year, the fast here runs from about 15h 11m near June down to 12h 01m in December.

The Fajr and Isha angles for Medina come from Umm al-Qura University, Makkah. The Umm al-Qura method sets Fajr when the sun is 18.5° below the horizon, and Isha 90 minutes after Maghrib. 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 Yanbu, Rābigh and Jeddah. Each is only a few minutes off Medina's clock.

Nearby: Yanbu prayer times · Rābigh prayer times · Jeddah prayer times · Mecca prayer times · Ta’if prayer times

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Mosques in Medina

Mosques in and around Medina include التوسعة الشرقية للمسجد النبوي الشريف, المسجد النبوي, مسجد الإمام البخاري, مسجد الإجابة, مسجد ذو النورين and مسجد أبي ذر الغفاري. The times on this page are worked out from Medina'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.