Retiro Prayer Times

Prayer Times in Retiro, Spain

Prayer times in Retiro are worked out each day from the city's coordinates (40.41°N). We use the Muslim World League method, the one followed across Spain. The five times shift by a minute or two each day as the sun moves. The full month is listed below.

Retiro's times use the Muslim World League method. That is the standard followed by most mosques in Spain. They are drawn from Retiro's own coordinates (40.4132°N, 3.6831°W). The schedule updates automatically at midnight, with no manual setting.

How Retiro's prayer times are worked out

From Retiro, the Qibla is 104° from true north. Face east to pray toward the Kaaba. It lies 4,596 km (2,856 miles) away in a straight line across the globe. Every time on this page is worked out from Retiro's own coordinates (40.41°N, 3.68°W), not a national average. That is why Retiro's times and its Qibla differ a little from cities a short distance away.

One local quirk shapes the Retiro timetable: midday prayer does not land at 12:00. Retiro lies well west inside its Madrid time zone. So the sun peaks about 83 minutes after clock noon. Dhuhr follows the sun, not the clock — today it falls at 1:00 PM. Across the year, the fast here runs from about 17h 08m near June down to 10h 55m in December.

The Fajr and Isha angles for Retiro 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 Madrid, Madrid Centro and Arganzuela. Each is only a few minutes off Retiro's clock.

Nearby: Madrid prayer times · Madrid Centro prayer times · Arganzuela prayer times · Salamanca prayer times · Puente de Vallecas prayer times

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