Qal‘at Bīshah Prayer Times

Prayer Times in Qal‘at Bīshah, Saudi Arabia

Prayer times in Qal‘at Bīshah are worked out each day from the city's coordinates (20.00°N). We use the Umm al-Qura method, the one followed across Saudi Arabia. The five times shift by a minute or two each day as the sun moves. The full month is listed below.

Qal‘at Bīshah's times use the Umm al-Qura method. That is the standard followed by most mosques in Saudi Arabia. They are drawn from Qal‘at Bīshah's own coordinates (20.0005°N, 42.6052°E). The schedule updates automatically at midnight, with no manual setting.

How Qal‘at Bīshah's prayer times are worked out

From Qal‘at Bīshah, the Qibla is 299° from true north. Face northwest to pray toward the Kaaba. It lies 329 km (205 miles) away in a straight line across the globe. Every time on this page is worked out from Qal‘at Bīshah's own coordinates (20.00°N, 42.61°E), not a national average. That is why Qal‘at Bīshah's times and its Qibla differ a little from cities a short distance away.

One local quirk shapes the Qal‘at Bīshah timetable: midday prayer does not land at 12:00. Qal‘at Bīshah lies well west inside its Riyadh time zone. So the sun peaks about 17 minutes after clock noon. Dhuhr follows the sun, not the clock — today it falls at 11:54 AM. Across the year, the fast here runs from about 14h 48m near June down to 12h 16m in December.

The Fajr and Isha angles for Qal‘at Bīshah come from Umm al-Qura University, Makkah. The Umm al-Qura method sets Fajr when the sun is 18.5° below the horizon, and Isha 90 minutes after Maghrib. 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 Sabt Alalayah, Al Bahah and Bariq. Each is only a few minutes off Qal‘at Bīshah's clock.

Nearby: Sabt Alalayah prayer times · Al Bahah prayer times · Bariq prayer times · Khamis Mushait prayer times · Abha prayer times

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