Prayer times in Sandakan

Salah times in Sandakan: 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. JAKIM timetables give the standard time, as the timetable below does.

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

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

When Ramadan begins and ends, every year: Ramadan dates

290.7° from true north, west, along the shortest path over the globe to the Kaaba in Mecca, 8,560 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 Sandakan from Thursday 22 October to Friday 20 November, in local time.

• Times follow the JAKIM (Jabatan Kemajuan Islam Malaysia) 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 5.8° N, 118.1° E with the adhan library, from Jean Meeus’s astronomical equations, and rounded up to the minute.
• Your local mosque may set its own times; follow it.

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