Prayer Times in Yachimata, Japan

Yachimata, hour by hour

Yachimata, Japan gets its own calculation here, run from the coordinates 35.67° N, 140.32° E rather than borrowed from a larger city nearby. Sunrise and sunset shift by a few minutes between neighbouring towns, and the prayer times move with them.

The night in between

Yachimata gets roughly 10 hours and 14 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.

If you are fasting

The fasting day here runs 4:30 am to 4:46 pm: suhoor closes at the first, iftar comes at the second. Today it works out to some 12 hours and 16 minutes. The full month is listed below if you want to see where the fast is heading.

Season by season in Yachimata

Summer and winter look like different timetables entirely in Yachimata. The times can shift by several hours between the two ends of the year.

Today's timetable

Fajr opens the day at 4:30 am, well before first light. The sun appears at 5:58 am, which ends the Fajr period. Dhuhr 11:22 am, Asr 3:08 pm — the two that carry the middle of the day. Maghrib comes with sunset at 4:46 pm, and Isha closes the day at 6:16 pm. Around 10 hours and 48 minutes of daylight, all told.

Why Dhuhr lands where it does

The sun reaches its high point roughly 38 minutes before noon here. Hence Dhuhr at 11:22 am, with the rest of the afternoon following along behind it. It is not an error — timezones are drawn for administrative convenience, not astronomical accuracy.

If you are travelling

There are 20 more Japan cities here, and each has its own times rather than sharing Yachimata's. If you are travelling within the country, use the page for where you actually are; the difference is small but real.

Qibla from Yachimata

The qibla from here runs west-north-west, a bearing of about 293°. The distance works out to about 9,528 kilometres, or 5,920 miles. Compass apps usually read magnetic north rather than true north, so allow a few degrees of local declination if you are setting a prayer mat precisely.

Why your mosque may differ slightly

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.

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