Sayyān Prayer Times

Prayer Times in Sayyān, Yemen

Prayer times in Sayyān are worked out each day from the city's coordinates (15.17°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.

Sayyān's times use the Umm al-Qura method. That is the standard followed by most mosques in Yemen. They are drawn from Sayyān's own coordinates (15.1718°N, 44.3244°E). The schedule updates automatically at midnight, with no manual setting.

How Sayyān's prayer times are worked out

From Sayyān, the Qibla is 326° from true north. Face northwest to pray toward the Kaaba. It lies 842 km (523 miles) away in a straight line across the globe. Every time on this page is worked out from Sayyān's own coordinates (15.17°N, 44.32°E), not a national average. That is why Sayyān's times and its Qibla differ a little from cities a short distance away.

Day length is what moves the Sayyān timetable through the year. With the Umm al-Qura method, the longest daily fast — Fajr to Maghrib — runs about 14h 24m around June. It eases to 12h 33m by December. That is a 1h 51m swing, set by the city's latitude of 15.17°N. The farther a place sits from the equator, the wider the gap.

The Fajr and Isha angles for Sayyān 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. Sayyān sits west of its Aden meridian. The sun peaks about 10 minutes after noon, so Dhuhr today is 12:00 PM. We also publish times for nearby Sanaa, ‘Amrān and Dhamār. Each is only a few minutes off Sayyān's clock.

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

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