Nouakchott Prayer Times

Prayer Times in Nouakchott, Mauritania

Prayer times in Nouakchott are worked out each day from the city's coordinates (18.09°N). We use the Muslim World League method, the one followed across Mauritania. The five times shift by a minute or two each day as the sun moves. The full month is listed below.

Nouakchott's times use the Muslim World League method. That is the standard followed by most mosques in Mauritania. They are drawn from Nouakchott's own coordinates (18.0858°N, 15.9785°W). The schedule updates automatically at midnight, with no manual setting.

How Nouakchott's prayer times are worked out

From Nouakchott, the Qibla is 77° from true north. Face east to pray toward the Kaaba. It lies 5,822 km (3,618 miles) away in a straight line across the globe. Every time on this page is worked out from Nouakchott's own coordinates (18.09°N, 15.98°W), not a national average. That is why Nouakchott's times and its Qibla differ a little from cities a short distance away.

One local quirk shapes the Nouakchott timetable: midday prayer does not land at 12:00. Nouakchott lies well west inside its Nouakchott time zone. So the sun peaks about 72 minutes after clock noon. Dhuhr follows the sun, not the clock — today it falls at 1:02 PM. Across the year, the fast here runs from about 14h 35m near June down to 12h 20m in December.

The Fajr and Isha angles for Nouakchott 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 Ksar, Dar Naim and Richard-Toll. Each is only a few minutes off Nouakchott's clock.

Nearby: Ksar prayer times · Dar Naim prayer times · Richard-Toll prayer times · Louga prayer times · Nouadhibou prayer times

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Mosques in Nouakchott

Mosques in and around Nouakchott include Chourava, Grande Mosquée المسجد الكبير, Mosquée marocaine مسجد المغربي, Mosquée El Farouk, Mosquée Al-Mahabba and Jamie Al-Yaqin. The times on this page are worked out from Nouakchott's own coordinates, and they apply across these mosques. Check the exact iqama time with your local mosque. That is the congregation, called a few minutes after each prayer starts.