New Halfa Prayer Times

Prayer Times in New Halfa, Sudan

New Halfaprayer times are calculated based on the city's precise geographic coordinates (15.3302°N, 35.5985°E) using the Muslim World League calculation method — the standard followed by most mosques in Sudan. 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 New Halfa'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 New Halfa prayer time calendar for the full month is shown below — so you can plan ahead without checking daily.

How New Halfa's prayer times are worked out

New Halfa sits 811 km (504 miles) from the Kaaba in Mecca, so the Qibla from here is 33° from true north — you face northeast to pray. Fajr and Isha depend on how far the sun drops below the horizon, and Sudan 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 New Halfa. Measured with the Muslim World League method, the longest daily fast here — from Fajr to Maghrib — runs about 14h 23m around June, while the shortest is roughly 12h 30m in December: a swing of 1h 53m across the year. That spread is set by New Halfa's latitude (15.33°N); cities nearer the equator barely vary, while far-northern ones swing by many hours.

One local quirk worth knowing: Dhuhr in New Halfa does not fall at 12:00. Because the city sits well east within its Africa/Khartoum time zone, the sun peaks about 14 minutes before clock noon, and Dhuhr follows the sun rather than the clock — today it is at 11:45 AM. The nearest cities we also publish times for are Kassala, Al Qadarif, Wad Medani — close enough that their times differ from New Halfa's by only a few minutes.