Mérida Prayer Times

Prayer Times in Mérida, Spain

Prayer times in Mérida are worked out each day from the city's coordinates (38.92°N). We use the Muslim World League method, the one followed across Spain. The five times shift by a minute or two each day as the sun moves. The full month is listed below.

Mérida's times use the Muslim World League method. That is the standard followed by most mosques in Spain. They are drawn from Mérida's own coordinates (38.9180°N, 6.3429°W). The schedule updates automatically at midnight, with no manual setting.

How Mérida's prayer times are worked out

From Mérida, the Qibla is 100° from true north. Face east to pray toward the Kaaba. It lies 4,784 km (2,973 miles) away in a straight line across the globe. Every time on this page is worked out from Mérida's own coordinates (38.92°N, 6.34°W), not a national average. That is why Mérida's times and its Qibla differ a little from cities a short distance away.

One local quirk shapes the Mérida timetable: midday prayer does not land at 12:00. Mérida lies well west inside its Madrid time zone. So the sun peaks about 94 minutes after clock noon. Dhuhr follows the sun, not the clock — today it falls at 2:24 PM. Across the year, the fast here runs from about 16h 53m near June down to 11h 03m in December.

The Fajr and Isha angles for Mérida 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 Badajoz, Cáceres and Sevilla. Each is only a few minutes off Mérida's clock.

Nearby: Badajoz prayer times · Cáceres prayer times · Sevilla prayer times · Talavera de la Reina prayer times · Córdoba prayer times

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