Sohag Prayer Times

Prayer Times in Sohag, Egypt

Prayer times in Sohag are worked out each day from the city's coordinates (26.56°N). We use the Egyptian method, the one followed across Egypt. The five times shift by a minute or two each day as the sun moves. The full month is listed below.

Sohag's times use the Egyptian method. That is the standard followed by most mosques in Egypt. They are drawn from Sohag's own coordinates (26.5570°N, 31.6948°E). The schedule updates automatically at midnight, with no manual setting.

How Sohag's prayer times are worked out

From Sohag, the Qibla is 123° from true north. Face southeast to pray toward the Kaaba. It lies 1,004 km (624 miles) away in a straight line across the globe. Every time on this page is worked out from Sohag's own coordinates (26.56°N, 31.69°E), not a national average. That is why Sohag's times and its Qibla differ a little from cities a short distance away.

Day length is what moves the Sohag timetable through the year. With the Egyptian method, the longest daily fast — Fajr to Maghrib — runs about 15h 28m around June. It eases to 11h 58m by December. That is a 3h 30m swing, set by the city's latitude of 26.56°N. The farther a place sits from the equator, the wider the gap.

The Fajr and Isha angles for Sohag come from the Egyptian General Authority of Survey. The Egyptian method sets Fajr when the sun is 19.5° below the horizon, and Isha at 17.5°. Use ISNA's 15° instead and Fajr here would move by several minutes. So the method — not the coordinates alone — settles the final time. Sohag sits close to its Cairo meridian, so Dhuhr lands near midday — 12:52 PM today. We also publish times for nearby Akhmīm, Al Minshāh and Al Marāghah. Each is only a few minutes off Sohag's clock.

Nearby: Akhmīm prayer times · Al Minshāh prayer times · Al Marāghah prayer times · Juhaynah prayer times · Ţahţā prayer times

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