Zaria Prayer Times

Prayer Times in Zaria, Nigeria

Prayer times in Zaria are worked out each day from the city's coordinates (11.11°N). We use the Muslim World League method, the one followed across Nigeria. The five times shift by a minute or two each day as the sun moves. The full month is listed below.

Zaria's times use the Muslim World League method. That is the standard followed by most mosques in Nigeria. They are drawn from Zaria's own coordinates (11.1113°N, 7.7227°E). The schedule updates automatically at midnight, with no manual setting.

How Zaria's prayer times are worked out

From Zaria, the Qibla is 67° from true north. Face northeast to pray toward the Kaaba. It lies 3,605 km (2,240 miles) away in a straight line across the globe. Every time on this page is worked out from Zaria's own coordinates (11.11°N, 7.72°E), not a national average. That is why Zaria's times and its Qibla differ a little from cities a short distance away.

One local quirk shapes the Zaria timetable: midday prayer does not land at 12:00. Zaria lies well west inside its Lagos time zone. So the sun peaks about 38 minutes after clock noon. Dhuhr follows the sun, not the clock — today it falls at 12:34 PM. Across the year, the fast here runs from about 14h 05m near June down to 12h 44m in December.

The Fajr and Isha angles for Zaria come from the Muslim World League. The Muslim World League method sets Fajr when the sun is 18° below the horizon, and Isha at 17°. 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 Funtua, Kaduna and Malumfashi. Each is only a few minutes off Zaria's clock.

Nearby: Funtua prayer times · Kaduna prayer times · Malumfashi prayer times · Lere prayer times · Kano prayer times

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Mosques in Zaria

A mosque serving Zaria is Masjid Ansarudeen Islamiyya. The times on this page are worked out from Zaria'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.