Tawau Prayer Times

Prayer Times in Tawau, Malaysia

Prayer times in Tawau are worked out each day from the city's coordinates (4.24°N). We use the JAKIM method, the one followed across Malaysia. The five times shift by a minute or two each day as the sun moves. The full month is listed below.

Tawau's times use the JAKIM method. That is the standard followed by most mosques in Malaysia. They are drawn from Tawau's own coordinates (4.2448°N, 117.8911°E). The schedule updates automatically at midnight, with no manual setting.

How Tawau's prayer times are worked out

From Tawau, the Qibla is 291° from true north. Face west to pray toward the Kaaba. It lies 8,601 km (5,344 miles) away in a straight line across the globe. Every time on this page is worked out from Tawau's own coordinates (4.24°N, 117.89°E), not a national average. That is why Tawau's times and its Qibla differ a little from cities a short distance away.

Tawau sits just 4.24°N of the equator. Its prayer calendar barely shifts across the year. With the JAKIM method, the longest daily fast is about 13h 47m. The shortest is about 13h 17m. That is a swing of only 0h 30m between June and December. Whenever Ramadan falls, fasting hours here stay much the same — something cities farther from the equator never see.

The Fajr and Isha angles for Tawau come from JAKIM, Malaysia's federal Islamic authority. The JAKIM method sets Fajr when the sun is 20° below the horizon, and Isha at 18°. 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 Nunukan, Semporna and Lahad Datu. Each is only a few minutes off Tawau's clock.

Nearby: Nunukan prayer times · Semporna prayer times · Lahad Datu prayer times · Tarakan prayer times · Tanjung Selor prayer times

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Mosques in Tawau

Mosques in and around Tawau include Masjid Bandar Tawau, Masjid Al-Kauthar Tawau, Masjid Raya Tawau, Masjid Al' Aman, Masjid Nurul Taqwa and Masjid Nurul Sa'adah. The times on this page are worked out from Tawau'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.