Nāḩiyat al Iskandarīyah Prayer Times

Prayer Times in Nāḩiyat al Iskandarīyah, Iraq

Nāḩiyat al Iskandarīyahprayer times are calculated based on the city's precise geographic coordinates (32.8873°N, 44.3462°E) using the Muslim World League calculation method — the standard followed by most mosques in Iraq. 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 Nāḩiyat al Iskandarīyah'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 Nāḩiyat al Iskandarīyah prayer time calendar for the full month is shown below — so you can plan ahead without checking daily.

How Nāḩiyat al Iskandarīyah's prayer times are worked out

Nāḩiyat al Iskandarīyah sits 1,351 km (839 miles) from the Kaaba in Mecca, so the Qibla from here is 200° from true north — you face south to pray. Fajr and Isha depend on how far the sun drops below the horizon, and Iraq 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 Nāḩiyat al Iskandarīyah. Measured with the Muslim World League method, the longest daily fast here — from Fajr to Maghrib — runs about 16h 01m around June, while the shortest is roughly 11h 27m in December: a swing of 4h 34m across the year. That spread is set by Nāḩiyat al Iskandarīyah's latitude (32.89°N); cities nearer the equator barely vary, while far-northern ones swing by many hours.

One local quirk worth knowing: Dhuhr in Nāḩiyat al Iskandarīyah does not fall at 12:00. Because the city sits well west within its Asia/Baghdad time zone, the sun peaks about 11 minutes after clock noon, and Dhuhr follows the sun rather than the clock — today it is at 12:10 PM. The nearest cities we also publish times for are Al-Musayab, Al Maḩmūdīyah, Al Hindīyah — close enough that their times differ from Nāḩiyat al Iskandarīyah's by only a few minutes.