Victoria Prayer Times

Prayer Times in Victoria, Canada

Prayer times in Victoria are worked out each day from the city's coordinates (48.44°N). We use the ISNA method, the one followed across Canada. The five times shift by a minute or two each day as the sun moves. The full month is listed below.

Victoria's times use the ISNA method. That is the standard used by most mosques in Canada and across the United States. They are drawn from Victoria's own coordinates (48.4359°N, 123.3516°W). The schedule updates automatically at midnight, with no manual setting.

How Victoria's prayer times are worked out

From Victoria, the Qibla is 17° from true north. Face north to pray toward the Kaaba. It lies 12,069 km (7,499 miles) away in a straight line across the globe. Every time on this page is worked out from Victoria's own coordinates (48.44°N, 123.35°W), not a national average. That is why Victoria's times and its Qibla differ a little from cities a short distance away.

One local quirk shapes the Victoria timetable: midday prayer does not land at 12:00. Victoria lies well west inside its Vancouver time zone. So the sun peaks about 82 minutes after clock noon. Dhuhr follows the sun, not the clock — today it falls at 12:58 PM. Across the year, the fast here runs from about 17h 15m near June down to 9h 55m in December.

The Fajr and Isha angles for Victoria 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 Saanich, South Surrey and Brighouse-City Centre. Each is only a few minutes off Victoria's clock.

Nearby: Saanich prayer times · South Surrey prayer times · Brighouse-City Centre prayer times · Surrey prayer times · Delta prayer times

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Mosques in Victoria

A mosque serving Victoria is The BC Muslim Association. The times on this page are worked out from Victoria'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.