Prayer Times in Ar Raḩmānīyah, Egypt

Prayer times in Ar Raḩmānīyah

Between the last prayer of one day and the first of the next, Ar Raḩmānīyah gets roughly 10 hours and 3 minutes of darkness. That span is what the last third of the night is measured against, so it shifts along with the rest of the timetable through the year.

The shape of the day

Fajr opens the day at 5:46 am, well before first light. You have until 7:09 am, when the sun comes up. Dhuhr follows at 12:41 pm once the sun has tipped past its highest point, and Asr at 4:35 pm. Maghrib comes with sunset at 6:13 pm, and Isha closes the day at 7:43 pm. Around 11 hours and 4 minutes of daylight, all told.

Where these times come from

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. For Asr this page uses the Hanafi position — later in the day than the majority view. Local practice wins over any website, this one included.

Ramadan timings

The fasting day here runs 5:46 am to 6:13 pm: suhoor closes at the first, iftar comes at the second. Today it works out to some 12 hours and 27 minutes. The monthly table further down shows the window widening or narrowing day by day, which helps when planning meals a week ahead.

Which way to face in Ar Raḩmānīyah

The qibla from here runs south-east, a bearing of about 137°. The distance works out to about 1,412 kilometres, or 877 miles. Worth remembering that a phone compass points to magnetic north, which can sit several degrees off true north depending on where you are.

Why Dhuhr lands where it does

Solar noon in Ar Raḩmānīyah falls about 41 minutes after twelve o'clock. It explains the 12:41 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.

The yearly swing

Across the year the Ar Raḩmānīyah 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.

Questions people ask

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