Prayer Times in Zabrze, Poland

Zabrze prayer times explained

These are Zabrze's own prayer times, not a regional approximation — they come from the coordinates 50.30° N, 18.78° E. The difference between one town and the next is only minutes, but those minutes are the whole of Fajr and Maghrib.

The fasting day in Zabrze

The fasting day here runs 4:39 am to 4:25 pm: suhoor closes at the first, iftar comes at the second. Today it works out to some 11 hours and 46 minutes. The monthly table further down shows the window widening or narrowing day by day, which helps when planning meals a week ahead.

Today's timetable

The day's first prayer, Fajr, falls at 4:39 am. The window stays open until sunrise, 6:32 am. Dhuhr 11:29 am, Asr 2:37 pm — the two that carry the middle of the day. Maghrib comes with sunset at 4:25 pm, and Isha closes the day at 5:55 pm. Around 9 hours and 53 minutes of daylight, all told.

Isha to Fajr

From Isha to Fajr is around 10 hours and 44 minutes at the moment. For anyone praying tahajjud, the last third of that period is the part traditionally singled out — work back from Fajr rather than forward from Isha to find it.

The yearly swing

At this latitude, midsummer creates a real difficulty: the sky never fully darkens, so there is no moment when the sun sits far enough below the horizon to give a clear Fajr or Isha. Communities in places like Zabrze generally follow a local ruling through those weeks — the nearest large mosque or Islamic centre will have guidance. The rest of the year the calculated times work as normal.

Lining up with the Kaaba

The qibla from here runs south-east, a bearing of about 142°. Makkah is around 3,701 kilometres (2,299 miles) away in a straight line.

How the times are worked out

Umm Al-Qura University, Makkah is the standard applied to this page. 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.

If you are travelling

Poland has 22 other cities covered on this site. If you are travelling within the country, use the page for where you actually are; the difference is small but real.

The clock against the sun

True midday in Zabrze arrives some 31 minutes before what the clock reads. That is why Dhuhr sits at 11:29 am rather than just past midday, and it carries through to Asr, Maghrib and Isha as well. This catches people out regularly, but prayer follows the sun, and the clock is only the label we put on it.

A few things worth knowing

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