Tacoma Prayer Times

Prayer Times in Tacoma, Washington

Prayer times in Tacoma are worked out each day from the city's coordinates (47.25°N). We use the ISNA method, the one followed across Washington. The five times shift by a minute or two each day as the sun moves. The full month is listed below.

Tacoma's times use the ISNA method. That is the standard used by most mosques in Washington and across the United States. They are drawn from Tacoma's own coordinates (47.2529°N, 122.4443°W). The schedule updates automatically at midnight, with no manual setting.

How Tacoma's prayer times are worked out

From Tacoma, the Qibla is 18° from true north. Face north to pray toward the Kaaba. It lies 12,175 km (7,565 miles) away in a straight line across the globe. Every time on this page is worked out from Tacoma's own coordinates (47.25°N, 122.44°W), not a national average. That is why Tacoma's times and its Qibla differ a little from cities a short distance away.

One local quirk shapes the Tacoma timetable: midday prayer does not land at 12:00. Tacoma lies well west inside its Los Angeles time zone. So the sun peaks about 78 minutes after clock noon. Dhuhr follows the sun, not the clock — today it falls at 1:16 PM. Across the year, the fast here runs from about 18h 07m near June down to 10h 02m in December.

The Fajr and Isha angles for Tacoma 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 Seattle, Victoria and Saanich. Each is only a few minutes off Tacoma's clock.

Nearby: Seattle prayer times · Victoria prayer times · Saanich prayer times · Portland prayer times · Abbotsford prayer times

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