Prayer Times in Songjiang, China

The prayer day in Songjiang

Anyone praying in Songjiang faces west-north-west, which works out to around 285°. That is roughly 8,016 kilometres in a straight line. The times themselves are worked out from the city's exact position.

Season by season in Songjiang

Across the year the Songjiang timetable shifts by an hour or two at each end — long summer evenings push Isha back, short winter days crowd Dhuhr, Asr and Maghrib together.

Ramadan timings

Suhoor closes at 4:44 am in Songjiang, with iftar at 5:09 pm. Roughly 12 hours and 25 minutes, going by today's figures. Scroll to the month view to see how the length changes as Ramadan progresses.

Why your mosque may differ slightly

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. For Asr this page uses the Hanafi position — later in the day than the majority view. Where your local mosque differs, follow the mosque — that is the timetable the congregation keeps.

From Fajr to Isha

The day's first prayer, Fajr, falls at 4:44 am. The sun appears at 6:08 am, which ends the Fajr period. Dhuhr follows at 11:39 am once the sun has tipped past its highest point, and Asr at 3:32 pm. The sun goes down at Maghrib, 5:09 pm, and the day ends with Isha at 6:39 pm. That gives Songjiang roughly 11 hours and 1 minutes of daylight today.

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