Prayer Times in Xiangyang, China

About the times on this page

Xiangyang gets about 10 hours and 58 minutes of daylight today, and the five prayer times are spaced across it. Prayer times are anchored to the sun rather than the clock, so as that figure grows and shrinks across the year, every time below moves with it.

If you are fasting

Stop eating by 5:21 am; break the fast at 5:44 pm. That is about 12 hours and 23 minutes on today's times. The full month is listed below if you want to see where the fast is heading.

Finding the qibla

Turn west, about 280°, for the qibla. The distance works out to about 7,152 kilometres, or 4,444 miles. Worth remembering that a phone compass points to magnetic north, which can sit several degrees off true north depending on where you are.

Season by season in Xiangyang

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

For tahajjud

Between Isha at 7:14 pm and Fajr at 5:21 am there are about 10 hours and 7 minutes. The final third of the night carries particular weight in the tradition, and it is measured from Isha to Fajr rather than by the clock.

Nearby cities

There are 180 more China cities here, and each has its own times rather than sharing Xiangyang's. It is worth switching to the right one when you travel — a few hundred kilometres east or west moves Fajr and Maghrib by a noticeable margin.

A walk through today's times

Everything begins with Fajr, 5:21 am today. The sun appears at 6:46 am, which ends the Fajr period. Next is Dhuhr at 12:15 pm, then Asr in the afternoon at 4:06 pm. Maghrib is prayed at 5:44 pm as the light goes, then Isha at 7:14 pm. Sunrise to sunset, today runs about 10 hours and 58 minutes.

The calculation behind them

These times follow Umm Al-Qura University, Makkah. The disagreement between methods lives almost entirely in Fajr and Isha, where the sun is below the horizon and the chosen angle decides the time. Asr is Hanafi on this page, so expect it later than a Shafi timetable would show. If the mosque down the road announces something a few minutes different, pray with the mosque.

Questions people ask

This page rebuilds itself daily for Xiangyang — the times are always the current ones.