Prayer Times in Zhaotong, China

About the times on this page

The night in Zhaotong runs about 10 hours at the moment — Isha at 7:53 pm to Fajr at 5:53 am. Everything else on this page hangs off the same two points: when the sun sets and when it comes back.

How the times are worked out

Umm Al-Qura University, Makkah is the standard applied to this page. 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.

Fasting hours

Stop eating by 5:53 am; break the fast at 6:23 pm. That is about 12 hours and 30 minutes on today's times. The full month is listed below if you want to see where the fast is heading.

From Fajr to Isha

Everything begins with Fajr, 5:53 am today. By 7:14 am the sun is up and Fajr's time has passed. Dhuhr follows at 12:49 pm once the sun has tipped past its highest point, and Asr at 4:47 pm. Maghrib is prayed at 6:23 pm as the light goes, then Isha at 7:53 pm. Sunrise to sunset, today runs about 11 hours and 9 minutes.

Finding the qibla

Turn west, about 279°, for the qibla. The distance works out to about 6,436 kilometres, or 3,999 miles.

The yearly swing

Across the year the Zhaotong 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.

The clock against the sun

True midday in Zhaotong arrives some 49 minutes after what the clock reads. It explains the 12:49 pm Dhuhr — the timezone boundary is drawn some way from this city's own meridian. This catches people out regularly, but prayer follows the sun, and the clock is only the label we put on it.

Quick answers

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