Sumqayıt Prayer Times

Prayer Times in Sumqayıt, Azerbaijan

Sumqayıtprayer times are calculated based on the city's precise geographic coordinates (40.5897°N, 49.6686°E) using the Muslim World League calculation method — the standard followed by most mosques in Azerbaijan. Times shown are for today's date and update automatically at midnight.

The five daily prayers — Fajr, Dhuhr, Asr, Maghrib, and Isha — are calculated from the sun's position relative to Sumqayıt's latitude and longitude. As the sun's declination changes throughout the year, prayer times shift by several minutes each day. This is why a Sumqayıt prayer time calendar for the full month is shown below — so you can plan ahead without checking daily.

How Sumqayıt's prayer times are worked out

Sumqayıt sits 2,325 km (1,445 miles) from the Kaaba in Mecca, so the Qibla from here is 206° from true north — you face southwest to pray. Fajr and Isha depend on how far the sun drops below the horizon, and Azerbaijan follows the Muslim World League method set by the Muslim World League: Fajr begins when the sun is 18° below the horizon, and Isha when it reaches 17°. A city that used ISNA's 15° instead would get a noticeably different Fajr — which is why the method, not just the coordinates, decides the answer.

Day length is what really moves the timetable in Sumqayıt. Measured with the Muslim World League method, the longest daily fast here — from Fajr to Maghrib — runs about 17h 11m around June, while the shortest is roughly 10h 54m in December: a swing of 6h 17m across the year. That spread is set by Sumqayıt's latitude (40.59°N); cities nearer the equator barely vary, while far-northern ones swing by many hours.

One local quirk worth knowing: Dhuhr in Sumqayıt does not fall at 12:00. Because the city sits well west within its Asia/Baku time zone, the sun peaks about 50 minutes after clock noon, and Dhuhr follows the sun rather than the clock — today it is at 12:49 PM. The nearest cities we also publish times for are Baku, Bakıxanov, Qaraçuxur — close enough that their times differ from Sumqayıt's by only a few minutes.