Prayer Times in Dabiya, Mali

Dabiya, hour by hour

Dabiya, Mali gets its own calculation here, run from the coordinates 12.67° N, 11.14° W rather than borrowed from a larger city nearby. A city an hour down the road will have times a few minutes apart from these, which is exactly why a country-wide timetable is a rough guide at best.

Why your mosque may differ slightly

The underlying method is Umm Al-Qura University, Makkah. The disagreement between methods lives almost entirely in Fajr and Isha, where the sun is below the horizon and the chosen angle decides the time. Asr here follows the Hanafi reckoning, which places it noticeably later in the afternoon than the other schools would. If the mosque down the road announces something a few minutes different, pray with the mosque.

The direction of prayer

Turn east-north-east, about 73°, for the qibla. That puts the Kaaba roughly 5,482 km — 3,406 miles — from here. 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.

Today's timetable

Everything begins with Fajr, 5:23 am today. Sunrise at 6:37 am closes that window. After the sun peaks, Dhuhr is prayed at 12:28 pm, and Asr at 4:42 pm. Maghrib is prayed at 6:19 pm as the light goes, then Isha at 7:49 pm. Sunrise to sunset, today runs about 11 hours and 42 minutes.

If you are fasting

Stop eating by 5:23 am; break the fast at 6:19 pm. That is about 12 hours and 56 minutes on today's times. The monthly table further down shows the window widening or narrowing day by day, which helps when planning meals a week ahead.

Why Dhuhr lands where it does

Solar noon in Dabiya falls about 28 minutes after twelve o'clock. Hence Dhuhr at 12:28 pm, with the rest of the afternoon following along behind it. This catches people out regularly, but prayer follows the sun, and the clock is only the label we put on it.

If you are travelling

6 other cities in Mali are listed on this site, each with its own calculated timetable. It is worth switching to the right one when you travel — a few hundred kilometres east or west moves Fajr and Maghrib by a noticeable margin.

Through the year

Dabiya is close enough to the equator that the seasons barely register in the prayer times. Longest day and shortest day differ by very little, and Ramadan feels much the same whichever month it lands in.

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