Prayer Times in Quito, Ecuador

About the times on this page

Today runs to roughly 12 hours and 7 minutes of daylight in Quito, from sunrise at 5:54 am to sunset at 6:01 pm. 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.

How the day runs in Quito

The day's first prayer, Fajr, falls at 4:41 am. You have until 5:54 am, when the sun comes up. After the sun peaks, Dhuhr is prayed at 11:58 am, and Asr at 4:19 pm. Maghrib comes with sunset at 6:01 pm, and Isha closes the day at 7:31 pm. Around 12 hours and 7 minutes of daylight, all told.

How the times are worked out

The calculation used here is Umm Al-Qura University, Makkah. Where two calculations disagree it is nearly always Fajr or Isha: those depend on twilight, and twilight is a judgement call. Asr here follows the Hanafi reckoning, which places it noticeably later in the afternoon than the other schools would. Local practice wins over any website, this one included.

Which way to face in Quito

The qibla from here runs east-north-east, a bearing of about 66°. Makkah is around 12,934 kilometres (8,037 miles) away in a straight line.

Isha to Fajr

From Isha to Fajr is around 9 hours and 10 minutes at the moment. 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.

Season by season in Quito

There is not much of a yearly swing here. Daylight hovers around twelve hours all year in Quito, keeping the whole timetable within a narrow band.

Fasting hours

The fasting day here runs 4:41 am to 6:01 pm: suhoor closes at the first, iftar comes at the second. Today it works out to some 13 hours and 20 minutes. The full month is listed below if you want to see where the fast is heading.

Questions people ask

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