Prayer times in Raleigh

Salah times in Raleigh: 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. ISNA timetables give the standard time, as the timetable below does.

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55.8° from true north, north-east, along the shortest path over the globe to the Kaaba in Mecca, 10,940 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 Raleigh from Wednesday 21 October to Thursday 19 November, in local time.

• Times follow the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) method: Fajr when the Sun is 15° below the horizon and Isha at 15°, with these margins: Dhuhr +1 min.
• Many mosques in North America follow the Moonsighting Committee’s times instead, with Fajr earlier and Isha later.
• 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 35.8° N, 78.6° W 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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