Prayer Times in Yekaterinburg, Russia

Prayer times in Yekaterinburg

The night in Yekaterinburg runs about 11 hours and 5 minutes at the moment — Isha at 6:47 pm to Fajr at 5:52 am. That span is what the last third of the night is measured against, so it shifts along with the rest of the timetable through the year.

If you are travelling

14 other cities in Russia 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.

For tahajjud

Yekaterinburg gets roughly 11 hours and 5 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.

How the times are worked out

Umm Al-Qura University, Makkah is the standard applied to this page. Dhuhr, Asr and Maghrib are largely settled across methods; Fajr and Isha are where authorities part company. Asr here follows the Hanafi reckoning, which places it noticeably later in the afternoon than the other schools would. A small gap between this page and your nearest masjid is nothing to worry about; go with theirs.

A quirk of the timezone

True midday in Yekaterinburg arrives some 41 minutes after what the clock reads. It explains the 12:41 pm Dhuhr — the timezone boundary is drawn some way from this city's own meridian. This catches people out regularly, but prayer follows the sun, and the clock is only the label we put on it.

Fasting hours

Suhoor ends at Fajr — 5:52 am today — and the fast breaks at Maghrib, 5:17 pm. Around 11 hours and 25 minutes without food or water today. Scroll to the month view to see how the length changes as Ramadan progresses.

How the day runs in Yekaterinburg

The first call comes at 5:52 am, for Fajr. The sun appears at 8:05 am, which ends the Fajr period. After the sun peaks, Dhuhr is prayed at 12:41 pm, and Asr at 3:25 pm. Sunset brings Maghrib at 5:17 pm; Isha is the last, at 6:47 pm. That is some 9 hours and 12 minutes between the sun coming up and going down.

Finding the qibla

Face south-south-west — roughly 212° on a compass — and you are pointed at the Kaaba. The distance works out to about 4,289 kilometres, or 2,665 miles. If you are marking a permanent direction in a room, check true north rather than trusting a phone compass alone.

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 Yekaterinburg 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.

Questions people ask