Prayer times in Nizwá, Oman

Salah times in Nizwá: each is when that prayer’s time begins and the azan is called.

Asr begins when a shadow is as long as the thing casting it, beyond its noon shadow, in the Shafi‘i, Maliki and Hanbali schools, and twice as long in the Hanafi school. Umm al-Qura timetables give the standard time, as the timetable below does.

Sunrise, sunset, twilight and day length: Sunrise and sunset in Nizwá

Sehri and iftar for each day of the month: Ramadan 2027 in Nizwá

When Ramadan begins and ends, every year: Ramadan dates

268.1° from true north, west, along the shortest path over the globe to the Kaaba in Mecca, 1,830 km away.

A magnetic compass points to magnetic north, a few degrees off true north in most places; set a phone’s compass to true north to read the bearing directly.

Namaz times in Nizwá from Friday 23 October to Saturday 21 November, in local time.

• Times follow the Umm al-Qura University, Makkah method: Fajr when the Sun is 18.5° below the horizon and Isha 90 minutes after Maghrib.
• In Ramadan, Umm al-Qura puts Isha two hours after Maghrib rather than 90 minutes, and so do the times here.
• Hijri dates follow the Umm al-Qura calendar. Where a month begins with the sighting of the new moon, it can start a day earlier or later.
• Worked out when the page loads for 22.9° N, 57.5° E with the adhan library, from Jean Meeus’s astronomical equations, and rounded to the minute.
• Your local mosque may set its own times; follow it.

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