Mongo Prayer Times

Prayer Times in Mongo, Chad

Mongoprayer times are calculated based on the city's precise geographic coordinates (12.1851°N, 18.6884°E) using the Muslim World League calculation method — the standard followed by most mosques in Chad. Times shown are for today's date and update automatically at midnight.

The five daily prayers — Fajr, Dhuhr, Asr, Maghrib, and Isha — are calculated from the sun's position relative to Mongo's latitude and longitude. As the sun's declination changes throughout the year, prayer times shift by several minutes each day. This is why a Mongo prayer time calendar for the full month is shown below — so you can plan ahead without checking daily.

How Mongo's prayer times are worked out

Mongo sits 2,470 km (1,535 miles) from the Kaaba in Mecca, so the Qibla from here is 63° from true north — you face northeast to pray. Fajr and Isha depend on how far the sun drops below the horizon, and Chad follows the Muslim World League method set by the Muslim World League: Fajr begins when the sun is 18° below the horizon, and Isha when it reaches 17°. A city that used ISNA's 15° instead would get a noticeably different Fajr — which is why the method, not just the coordinates, decides the answer.

Day length is what really moves the timetable in Mongo. Measured with the Muslim World League method, the longest daily fast here — from Fajr to Maghrib — runs about 14h 09m around June, while the shortest is roughly 12h 41m in December: a swing of 1h 28m across the year. That spread is set by Mongo's latitude (12.19°N); cities nearer the equator barely vary, while far-northern ones swing by many hours.

Mongo sits close to the meridian of its Africa/Ndjamena time zone, so the sun peaks within 6 minutes of clock noon and Dhuhr lands near midday — today at 11:52 AM. Dhuhr always tracks the sun's peak, not the clock. The nearest cities we also publish times for are Am Timan, Abéché, Goz Beida — close enough that their times differ from Mongo's by only a few minutes.