Onitsha Prayer Times

Prayer Times in Onitsha, Nigeria

Prayer times in Onitsha are worked out each day from the city's coordinates (6.15°N). We use the Muslim World League method, the one followed across Nigeria. The five times shift by a minute or two each day as the sun moves. The full month is listed below.

Onitsha's times use the Muslim World League method. That is the standard followed by most mosques in Nigeria. They are drawn from Onitsha's own coordinates (6.1498°N, 6.7857°E). The schedule updates automatically at midnight, with no manual setting.

How Onitsha's prayer times are worked out

From Onitsha, the Qibla is 61° from true north. Face northeast to pray toward the Kaaba. It lies 3,938 km (2,447 miles) away in a straight line across the globe. Every time on this page is worked out from Onitsha's own coordinates (6.15°N, 6.79°E), not a national average. That is why Onitsha's times and its Qibla differ a little from cities a short distance away.

Onitsha sits just 6.15°N of the equator. Its prayer calendar barely shifts across the year. With the Muslim World League method, the longest daily fast is about 13h 45m. The shortest is about 13h 01m. That is a swing of only 0h 44m between June and December. Whenever Ramadan falls, fasting hours here stay much the same — something cities farther from the equator never see.

The Fajr and Isha angles for Onitsha 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 Nkpor, Asaba and Atani. Each is only a few minutes off Onitsha's clock.

Nearby: Nkpor prayer times · Asaba prayer times · Atani prayer times · Nnewi prayer times · Ozubulu prayer times

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