Prayer times in Puducherry

Salah times in Puducherry: 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. Karachi timetables give the Hanafi time, as the timetable below does.

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

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

When Ramadan begins and ends, every year: Ramadan dates

289.3° from true north, west, along the shortest path over the globe to the Kaaba in Mecca, 4,380 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 Puducherry from Wednesday 21 October to Thursday 19 November, in local time.

• Times follow the University of Islamic Sciences, Karachi method: Fajr when the Sun is 18° below the horizon and Isha at 18°, with these margins: Dhuhr +1 min.
• 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 11.9° N, 79.8° 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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