Sanaa Prayer Times

Prayer Times in Sanaa, Yemen

Prayer times in Sanaa are worked out each day from the city's coordinates (15.35°N). We use the Umm al-Qura method, the one followed across Yemen. The five times shift by a minute or two each day as the sun moves. The full month is listed below.

Sanaa's times use the Umm al-Qura method. That is the standard followed by most mosques in Yemen. They are drawn from Sanaa's own coordinates (15.3545°N, 44.2065°E). The schedule updates automatically at midnight, with no manual setting.

How Sanaa's prayer times are worked out

From Sanaa, the Qibla is 326° from true north. Face northwest to pray toward the Kaaba. It lies 818 km (508 miles) away in a straight line across the globe. Every time on this page is worked out from Sanaa's own coordinates (15.35°N, 44.21°E), not a national average. That is why Sanaa's times and its Qibla differ a little from cities a short distance away.

Day length is what moves the Sanaa timetable through the year. With the Umm al-Qura method, the longest daily fast — Fajr to Maghrib — runs about 14h 25m around June. It eases to 12h 32m by December. That is a 1h 53m swing, set by the city's latitude of 15.35°N. The farther a place sits from the equator, the wider the gap.

The Fajr and Isha angles for Sanaa 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. Sanaa sits west of its Aden meridian. The sun peaks about 11 minutes after noon, so Dhuhr today is 12:01 PM. We also publish times for nearby Sayyān, ‘Amrān and Dhamār. Each is only a few minutes off Sanaa's clock.

Nearby: Sayyān prayer times · ‘Amrān prayer times · Dhamār prayer times · Al Ḩudaydah prayer times · Ibb prayer times

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Mosques in Sanaa

Mosques in and around Sanaa include مسجد قبة المتوكل, جامع, جامع النزيلي, مسجد النهرين, مسجد الطبري and قبة المهدي عباس. The times on this page are worked out from Sanaa'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.