Sterling Heights Prayer Times

Prayer Times in Sterling Heights, Michigan

Prayer times in Sterling Heights are worked out each day from the city's coordinates (42.58°N). We use the ISNA method, the one followed across Michigan. The five times shift by a minute or two each day as the sun moves. The full month is listed below.

Sterling Heights's times use the ISNA method. That is the standard used by most mosques in Michigan and across the United States. They are drawn from Sterling Heights's own coordinates (42.5803°N, 83.0302°W). The schedule updates automatically at midnight, with no manual setting.

How Sterling Heights's prayer times are worked out

From Sterling Heights, the Qibla is 52° from true north. Face northeast to pray toward the Kaaba. It lies 10,804 km (6,714 miles) away in a straight line across the globe. Every time on this page is worked out from Sterling Heights's own coordinates (42.58°N, 83.03°W), not a national average. That is why Sterling Heights's times and its Qibla differ a little from cities a short distance away.

One local quirk shapes the Sterling Heights timetable: midday prayer does not land at 12:00. Sterling Heights lies well west inside its Detroit time zone. So the sun peaks about 101 minutes after clock noon. Dhuhr follows the sun, not the clock — today it falls at 1:38 PM. Across the year, the fast here runs from about 17h 05m near June down to 10h 28m in December.

The Fajr and Isha angles for Sterling Heights come from the Islamic Society of North America. The ISNA method sets Fajr when the sun is 15° below the horizon, and Isha at 15°. 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 Warren, Hamtramck and Pontiac. Each is only a few minutes off Sterling Heights's clock.

Nearby: Warren prayer times · Hamtramck prayer times · Pontiac prayer times · Detroit prayer times · Dearborn prayer times

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Mosques in Sterling Heights

Mosques in and around Sterling Heights include Muslim Shrine, American Islamic Community Center and American Muslim Diversity Association. The times on this page are worked out from Sterling Heights'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.