Prayer Times in Maracaibo, Venezuela

Praying in Maracaibo

Between the last prayer of one day and the first of the next, Maracaibo gets roughly 9 hours and 31 minutes of darkness. The whole timetable below follows the same movement — as the nights lengthen, every time on the page moves with them.

Lining up with the Kaaba

The qibla from here runs east-north-east, a bearing of about 64°. Makkah is around 11,732 kilometres (7,290 miles) away in a straight line. Worth remembering that a phone compass points to magnetic north, which can sit several degrees off true north depending on where you are.

The fasting day in Maracaibo

The fasting day here runs 5:24 am to 6:23 pm: suhoor closes at the first, iftar comes at the second. Today it works out to some 12 hours and 59 minutes. The full month is listed below if you want to see where the fast is heading.

Through the year

There is not much of a yearly swing here. Daylight hovers around twelve hours all year in Maracaibo, keeping the whole timetable within a narrow band.

A quirk of the timezone

True midday in Maracaibo arrives some 30 minutes after what the clock reads. It explains the 12:30 pm Dhuhr — the timezone boundary is drawn some way from this city's own meridian. It is not an error — timezones are drawn for administrative convenience, not astronomical accuracy.

The shape of the day

Fajr is at 5:24 am — early, and in darkness. You have until 6:38 am, when the sun comes up. Midday brings Dhuhr at 12:30 pm; Asr comes round at 4:45 pm. Maghrib comes with sunset at 6:23 pm, and Isha closes the day at 7:53 pm. Around 11 hours and 45 minutes of daylight, all told.

Where these times come from

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. 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.

For tahajjud

Between Isha at 7:53 pm and Fajr at 5:24 am there are about 9 hours and 31 minutes. The final third of the night carries particular weight in the tradition, and it is measured from Isha to Fajr rather than by the clock.

A few things worth knowing

This page rebuilds itself daily for Maracaibo — the times are always the current ones.