Prayer Times in Póvoa de Varzim, Portugal

Prayer times in Póvoa de Varzim

Póvoa de Varzim, Portugal gets its own calculation here, run from the coordinates 41.38° N, 8.76° 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.

Finding the qibla

The qibla from here runs east, a bearing of about 101°. That puts the Kaaba roughly 5,036 km — 3,130 miles — from here.

If you are travelling

3 other cities in Portugal are listed on this site, each with its own calculated timetable. If you are travelling within the country, use the page for where you actually are; the difference is small but real.

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 here follows the Hanafi reckoning, which places it noticeably later in the afternoon than the other schools would. Local practice wins over any website, this one included.

Póvoa de Varzim today, prayer by prayer

Fajr opens the day at 5:27 am, well before first light. Sunrise at 7:03 am closes that window. Next is Dhuhr at 12:19 pm, then Asr in the afternoon at 3:53 pm. Maghrib comes with sunset at 5:34 pm, and Isha closes the day at 7:04 pm. Around 10 hours and 31 minutes of daylight, all told.

The yearly swing

The yearly swing here is substantial. In June, Fajr in Póvoa de Varzim can fall in the small hours with Isha holding off until late evening; in December the whole day from Fajr to Isha is over in a short span. Check the monthly timetable rather than assuming last season's times still hold.

Isha to Fajr

Between Isha at 7:04 pm and Fajr at 5:27 am there are about 10 hours and 23 minutes. 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.

Suhoor and iftar in Póvoa de Varzim

The fasting day here runs 5:27 am to 5:34 pm: suhoor closes at the first, iftar comes at the second. Today it works out to some 12 hours and 7 minutes. The monthly table further down shows the window widening or narrowing day by day, which helps when planning meals a week ahead.

A few things worth knowing

No need to bookmark a timetable: the page recalculates for Póvoa de Varzim daily.