Zefta Prayer Times

Prayer Times in Zefta, Egypt

Prayer times in Zefta are worked out each day from the city's coordinates (30.71°N). We use the Egyptian method, the one followed across Egypt. The five times shift by a minute or two each day as the sun moves. The full month is listed below.

Zefta's times use the Egyptian method. That is the standard followed by most mosques in Egypt. They are drawn from Zefta's own coordinates (30.7142°N, 31.2443°E). The schedule updates automatically at midnight, with no manual setting.

How Zefta's prayer times are worked out

From Zefta, the Qibla is 138° from true north. Face southeast to pray toward the Kaaba. It lies 1,341 km (833 miles) away in a straight line across the globe. Every time on this page is worked out from Zefta's own coordinates (30.71°N, 31.24°E), not a national average. That is why Zefta's times and its Qibla differ a little from cities a short distance away.

Day length is what moves the Zefta timetable through the year. With the Egyptian method, the longest daily fast — Fajr to Maghrib — runs about 15h 56m around June. It eases to 11h 43m by December. That is a 4h 13m swing, set by the city's latitude of 30.71°N. The farther a place sits from the equator, the wider the gap.

The Fajr and Isha angles for Zefta come from the Egyptian General Authority of Survey. The Egyptian method sets Fajr when the sun is 19.5° below the horizon, and Isha at 17.5°. Use ISNA's 15° instead and Fajr here would move by several minutes. So the method — not the coordinates alone — settles the final time. Zefta sits close to its Cairo meridian, so Dhuhr lands near midday — 12:53 PM today. We also publish times for nearby Mīt Ghamr, Birkat as Sab‘ and Quwaysinā. Each is only a few minutes off Zefta's clock.

Nearby: Mīt Ghamr prayer times · Birkat as Sab‘ prayer times · Quwaysinā prayer times · Diyarb Najm prayer times · Al Qanāyāt prayer times

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