Prayer Times in Port-Alfred, Canada

What these times mean for Port-Alfred

Port-Alfred sits at 48.33° N, 70.88° W, and the timetable here is built from that position rather than a national average. The difference between one town and the next is only minutes, but those minutes are the whole of Fajr and Maghrib.

Clock time and solar time

True midday in Port-Alfred arrives some 27 minutes after what the clock reads. That is why Dhuhr sits at 12:27 pm rather than just past midday, and it carries through to Asr, Maghrib and Isha as well. It is not an error — timezones are drawn for administrative convenience, not astronomical accuracy.

Through the year

There is a caveat to the summer timetable in Port-Alfred. For several weeks around the solstice the sun does not dip deep enough for a true Fajr or Isha, and the calculated values become estimates. Local scholarly guidance takes over in that period.

The fasting day in Port-Alfred

The fasting day here runs 5:38 am to 5:27 pm: suhoor closes at the first, iftar comes at the second. Today it works out to some 11 hours and 49 minutes. The full month is listed below if you want to see where the fast is heading.

The direction of prayer

The qibla from here runs east-north-east, a bearing of about 61°. Makkah is around 9,663 kilometres (6,005 miles) away in a straight line.

The shape of the day

Fajr opens the day at 5:38 am, well before first light. The sun appears at 7:26 am, which ends the Fajr period. Midday brings Dhuhr at 12:27 pm; Asr comes round at 3:42 pm. Maghrib comes with sunset at 5:27 pm, and Isha closes the day at 6:57 pm. Around 10 hours and 1 minutes of daylight, all told.

Where these times come from

Umm Al-Qura University, Makkah is the standard applied to this page. Where two calculations disagree it is nearly always Fajr or Isha: those depend on twilight, and twilight is a judgement call. Asr is Hanafi on this page, so expect it later than a Shafi timetable would show. Local practice wins over any website, this one included.

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