About this site
About Leicester Prayer Times
Leicester Prayer Times gives the prayer times for Leicester, worked out for the city itself, every day of the year. It is part of the Muslims Around the World network.
Who runs it
Leicester Prayer Times is one of a family of Islamic websites made by Muslims Around the World. Each does one job well: a city’s prayer times, a Ramadan timetable, a surah, a dua. Every one is on the Muslims Around the World sites page.
Muslims Around the World is protecting the legacy of Ali Banat, may Allah have mercy on him, and every site in the family is part of that work. Read his story.
You can learn more with us at Islamic shorts, duas and Quran recitations: short reminders from scholars, duas with their meaning, Quran recitations and prayer times.
The site is free, has no third-party adverts and needs no account.
How the times are worked out
- Place
- Central Leicester, 52.6362° N, 1.1332° W, from OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors)
- Clocks
- UK time (Europe/London), with British Summer Time
- Method
- Moonsighting Committee: Fajr and Isha at 18° with seasonal limits; a seventh of the night from 55° north. The same method muslimsaroundtheworld.org uses here
- Asr
- Standard (Shafi‘i, Maliki, Hanbali) (switch to Hanafi on any timetable)
- Short summer nights
- When the sun doesn't get low enough for the angle, Fajr and Isha follow the Moonsighting Committee’s seasonal rule: a limit before sunrise for Fajr, and after sunset for Isha, worked out from the city’s latitude and the time of year
- Hijri dates
- The Umm al-Qura calendar; UK moon-sighting announcements can be a day later
- Calculation
- An open-source astronomical calculation (the adhan library by Batoul Apps, MIT licence) works out where the sun is over Leicester each day; times are rounded to the minute
- Areas
- Area names and positions: GeoNames (geonames.org), CC BY 4.0. Each area’s times are worked out for its own position
- Mosques
- Jamaat times are often a few minutes after these start times, and some mosques use another method for Fajr and Isha. For congregation, follow your mosque
Why a Leicester timetable
Leicester is 143 km from London, and it shows. A London timetable is four minutes early at Zuhr and as much as 11 minutes early at Maghrib and Isha in early June. This site does the arithmetic for you, working out each day from the sun’s position over Leicester itself.
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Our method for Leicester
- Location. Central Leicester, 52.636° N, 1.133° W, where OpenStreetMap places the city.
- Fajr and Isha. The sun 18° below the horizon (the Moonsighting Committee method), within its seasonal limits; from about mid-May to late July the limits set them alone.
- Zuhr and Maghrib. Five minutes after the sun is highest; three minutes after sunset.
- Asr. Standard, when a shadow has grown by its object’s height; Hanafi, twice the height.
- Clock. UK time with British Summer Time, rounded to the nearest minute.
Muslims Around the World runs this site; reach the team through www.muslimsaroundtheworld.org.