Prayer Times in Santiago, Dominican Republic

The prayer day in Santiago

From Santiago, the qibla points east-north-east — a bearing of about 63° on a compass. Makkah lies some 11,201 kilometres away, and the times on this page are calculated for this city specifically rather than for the country as a whole.

How much the times move

Across the year the Santiago 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.

Today's timetable

Everything begins with Fajr, 5:26 am today. By 6:43 am the sun is up and Fajr's time has passed. Midday brings Dhuhr at 12:26 pm; Asr comes round at 4:34 pm. Sunset brings Maghrib at 6:10 pm; Isha is the last, at 7:40 pm. That is some 11 hours and 27 minutes between the sun coming up and going down.

Fasting hours

Suhoor ends at Fajr — 5:26 am today — and the fast breaks at Maghrib, 6:10 pm. Around 12 hours and 44 minutes without food or water today. The full month is listed below if you want to see where the fast is heading.

Isha to Fajr

Between Isha at 7:40 pm and Fajr at 5:26 am there are about 9 hours and 46 minutes. If you pray tahajjud, the final third of that stretch is the one to aim for; counting backwards from Fajr is the easier way to locate it.

A note on the method used

Calculations come from Umm Al-Qura University, Makkah. Dhuhr, Asr and Maghrib are largely settled across methods; Fajr and Isha are where authorities part company. Asr is Hanafi on this page, so expect it later than a Shafi timetable would show. A small gap between this page and your nearest masjid is nothing to worry about; go with theirs.

The clock against the sun

True midday in Santiago arrives some 26 minutes after what the clock reads. That is why Dhuhr sits at 12:26 pm rather than just past midday, and it carries through to Asr, Maghrib and Isha as well. This catches people out regularly, but prayer follows the sun, and the clock is only the label we put on it.

Common questions