Ouagadougou Prayer Times

Prayer Times in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso

Prayer times in Ouagadougou are worked out each day from the city's coordinates (12.37°N). We use the Muslim World League method, the one followed across Burkina Faso. The five times shift by a minute or two each day as the sun moves. The full month is listed below.

Ouagadougou's times use the Muslim World League method. That is the standard followed by most mosques in Burkina Faso. They are drawn from Ouagadougou's own coordinates (12.3657°N, 1.5339°W). The schedule updates automatically at midnight, with no manual setting.

How Ouagadougou's prayer times are worked out

From Ouagadougou, the Qibla is 71° from true north. Face east to pray toward the Kaaba. It lies 4,500 km (2,796 miles) away in a straight line across the globe. Every time on this page is worked out from Ouagadougou's own coordinates (12.37°N, 1.53°W), not a national average. That is why Ouagadougou's times and its Qibla differ a little from cities a short distance away.

One local quirk shapes the Ouagadougou timetable: midday prayer does not land at 12:00. Ouagadougou lies well west inside its Ouagadougou time zone. So the sun peaks about 15 minutes after clock noon. Dhuhr follows the sun, not the clock — today it falls at 12:11 PM. Across the year, the fast here runs from about 14h 10m near June down to 12h 40m in December.

The Fajr and Isha angles for Ouagadougou 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 Nioko I, Saaba and Koudougou. Each is only a few minutes off Ouagadougou's clock.

Nearby: Nioko I prayer times · Saaba prayer times · Koudougou prayer times · Kaya prayer times · Kongoussi prayer times

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Mosques in Ouagadougou

Mosques in and around Ouagadougou include Mosquée Kamsonghin, Grande Mosquée, Mosquée El Taoba, Niematou Sania, Mosquée sous secteur 4 and mosquée centrale. The times on this page are worked out from Ouagadougou'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.