Prayer Times in Longreach, Australia

Prayer times in Longreach

Between the last prayer of one day and the first of the next, Longreach gets roughly 8 hours and 12 minutes of darkness. That span is what the last third of the night is measured against, so it shifts along with the rest of the timetable through the year.

Other Australia timetables

There are 9 more Australia cities here, and each has its own times rather than sharing Longreach's. If you are travelling within the country, use the page for where you actually are; the difference is small but real.

The night in between

Longreach gets roughly 8 hours and 12 minutes of night between the last prayer and the first. If you pray tahajjud, the final third of that stretch is the one to aim for; counting backwards from Fajr is the easier way to locate it.

How the times are worked out

The underlying method is Umm Al-Qura University, Makkah. Where two calculations disagree it is nearly always Fajr or Isha: those depend on twilight, and twilight is a judgement call. Asr here follows the Hanafi reckoning, which places it noticeably later in the afternoon than the other schools would. Local practice wins over any website, this one included.

Longreach today, prayer by prayer

The day's first prayer, Fajr, falls at 4:17 am. By 5:39 am the sun is up and Fajr's time has passed. Dhuhr 12:07 pm, Asr 4:41 pm — the two that carry the middle of the day. Maghrib comes with sunset at 6:35 pm, and Isha closes the day at 8:05 pm. Around 12 hours and 56 minutes of daylight, all told.

Finding the qibla

The qibla from here runs west-north-west, a bearing of about 285°. The distance works out to about 12,341 kilometres, or 7,668 miles. If you are marking a permanent direction in a room, check true north rather than trusting a phone compass alone.

Through the year

Longreach sits far enough from the equator for the difference to be felt. Midsummer stretches the day, midwinter compresses it, and the prayer times follow.

If you are fasting

The fasting day here runs 4:17 am to 6:35 pm: suhoor closes at the first, iftar comes at the second. Today it works out to some 14 hours and 18 minutes. The monthly table further down shows the window widening or narrowing day by day, which helps when planning meals a week ahead.

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