Sakakah Prayer Times

Prayer Times in Sakakah, Saudi Arabia

Prayer times in Sakakah are worked out each day from the city's coordinates (29.97°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.

Sakakah's times use the Umm al-Qura method. That is the standard followed by most mosques in Saudi Arabia. They are drawn from Sakakah's own coordinates (29.9697°N, 40.2064°E). The schedule updates automatically at midnight, with no manual setting.

How Sakakah's prayer times are worked out

From Sakakah, the Qibla is 182° from true north. Face south to pray toward the Kaaba. It lies 951 km (591 miles) away in a straight line across the globe. Every time on this page is worked out from Sakakah's own coordinates (29.97°N, 40.21°E), not a national average. That is why Sakakah's times and its Qibla differ a little from cities a short distance away.

One local quirk shapes the Sakakah timetable: midday prayer does not land at 12:00. Sakakah lies well west inside its Riyadh time zone. So the sun peaks about 27 minutes after clock noon. Dhuhr follows the sun, not the clock — today it falls at 12:17 PM. Across the year, the fast here runs from about 15h 44m near June down to 11h 41m in December.

The Fajr and Isha angles for Sakakah 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 Arar, Ţurayf and Ha'il. Each is only a few minutes off Sakakah's clock.

Nearby: Arar prayer times · Ţurayf prayer times · Ha'il prayer times · Qurayyat prayer times · Tabuk prayer times

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