Mot’a Prayer Times

Prayer Times in Mot’a, Ethiopia

Prayer times in Mot’a are worked out each day from the city's coordinates (11.08°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.

Mot’a's times use the Muslim World League method. That is the standard followed by most mosques in Ethiopia. They are drawn from Mot’a's own coordinates (11.0833°N, 37.8667°E). The schedule updates automatically at midnight, with no manual setting.

How Mot’a's prayer times are worked out

From Mot’a, the Qibla is 10° from true north. Face north to pray toward the Kaaba. It lies 1,168 km (726 miles) away in a straight line across the globe. Every time on this page is worked out from Mot’a's own coordinates (11.08°N, 37.87°E), not a national average. That is why Mot’a's times and its Qibla differ a little from cities a short distance away.

One local quirk shapes the Mot’a timetable: midday prayer does not land at 12:00. Mot’a lies well west inside its Addis Ababa time zone. So the sun peaks about 37 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 14h 05m near June down to 12h 44m in December.

The Fajr and Isha angles for Mot’a 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 Bahir Dar, Finote Selam and Debre Mark’os. Each is only a few minutes off Mot’a's clock.

Nearby: Bahir Dar prayer times · Finote Selam prayer times · Debre Mark’os prayer times · Debre Tabor prayer times · Dangila prayer times

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