Metu Prayer Times

Prayer Times in Metu, Ethiopia

Prayer times in Metu are worked out each day from the city's coordinates (8.30°N). We use the Muslim World League method, the one followed across Ethiopia. The five times shift by a minute or two each day as the sun moves. The full month is listed below.

Metu's times use the Muslim World League method. That is the standard followed by most mosques in Ethiopia. They are drawn from Metu's own coordinates (8.3000°N, 35.5833°E). The schedule updates automatically at midnight, with no manual setting.

How Metu's prayer times are worked out

From Metu, the Qibla is 17° from true north. Face north to pray toward the Kaaba. It lies 1,528 km (950 miles) away in a straight line across the globe. Every time on this page is worked out from Metu's own coordinates (8.30°N, 35.58°E), not a national average. That is why Metu's times and its Qibla differ a little from cities a short distance away.

Metu sits just 8.30°N of the equator. Its prayer calendar barely shifts across the year. With the Muslim World League method, the longest daily fast is about 13h 54m. The shortest is about 12h 54m. That is a swing of only 1h 00m 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 Metu 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 Dembī Dolo, Gimbi and Gambēla. Each is only a few minutes off Metu's clock.

Nearby: Dembī Dolo prayer times · Gimbi prayer times · Gambēla prayer times · Tēpī prayer times · Āgaro prayer times

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