Prayer Times in Daqing, China

Daqing prayer times explained

Sunrise 6:20 am, sunset 4:27 pm — about 10 hours and 7 minutes of daylight in Daqing today. None of the five are fixed to the clock — they follow the sun, and the sun keeps different hours in every month.

The last third of the night

Daqing gets roughly 10 hours and 38 minutes of night between the last prayer and the first. For anyone praying tahajjud, the last third of that period is the part traditionally singled out — work back from Fajr rather than forward from Isha to find it.

Suhoor and iftar in Daqing

Suhoor closes at 4:35 am in Daqing, with iftar at 4:27 pm. Roughly 11 hours and 52 minutes, going by today's figures. The full month is listed below if you want to see where the fast is heading.

Season by season in Daqing

Summer and winter look like different timetables entirely in Daqing. The times can shift by several hours between the two ends of the year.

Clock time and solar time

True midday in Daqing arrives some 36 minutes before what the clock reads. It explains the 11:24 am Dhuhr — the timezone boundary is drawn some way from this city's own meridian. It is not an error — timezones are drawn for administrative convenience, not astronomical accuracy.

Where these times come from

These times follow Umm Al-Qura University, Makkah. Methods differ mainly over Fajr and Isha, because each authority settles on a slightly different angle of the sun below the horizon — a few minutes either way is normal. Asr is Hanafi on this page, so expect it later than a Shafi timetable would show. Where your local mosque differs, follow the mosque — that is the timetable the congregation keeps.

From Fajr to Isha

Fajr opens the day at 4:35 am, well before first light. The sun appears at 6:20 am, which ends the Fajr period. Dhuhr 11:24 am, Asr 2:43 pm — the two that carry the middle of the day. The sun goes down at Maghrib, 4:27 pm, and the day ends with Isha at 5:57 pm. That gives Daqing roughly 10 hours and 7 minutes of daylight today.

Lining up with the Kaaba

From this city the direction is west-north-west, or 282° if you prefer the number. Makkah is around 7,938 kilometres (4,933 miles) away in a straight line.

Elsewhere in China

180 other cities in China are listed on this site, each with its own calculated timetable. The list under the timetable below will take you to any of them.

Common questions

No need to bookmark a timetable: the page recalculates for Daqing daily.