Prayer Times in Dachau, Germany

Dachau prayer times explained

The direction of prayer from Dachau is south-east, or 130° if you are using a compass app. That is roughly 3,907 kilometres in a straight line. The times themselves are worked out from the city's exact position.

For tahajjud

Dachau gets roughly 10 hours and 39 minutes of night between the last prayer and the first. 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.

Method and madhab

The underlying method 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 is Hanafi on this page, so expect it later than a Shafi timetable would show. Local practice wins over any website, this one included.

The fasting day in Dachau

The fasting day here runs 5:08 am to 4:59 pm: suhoor closes at the first, iftar comes at the second. Today it works out to some 11 hours and 51 minutes. The monthly table further down shows the window widening or narrowing day by day, which helps when planning meals a week ahead.

Through the year

Dachau is far enough north that calculated Fajr and Isha times become unreliable around midsummer, when twilight lasts all night. Most communities this far up adopt a local ruling for those weeks; ask at your mosque. Outside that stretch, the ordinary calculation applies.

A walk through today's times

The day's first prayer, Fajr, falls at 5:08 am. By 6:56 am the sun is up and Fajr's time has passed. Midday brings Dhuhr at 11:58 am; Asr comes round at 3:13 pm. Maghrib comes with sunset at 4:59 pm, and Isha closes the day at 6:29 pm. Around 10 hours and 3 minutes of daylight, all told.

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