Prayer Times in Khartoum, Sudan Today

The capital's coordinates

Khartoum stands at the confluence of the Blue Nile and the White Nile, near 15.50 degrees north and 32.56 degrees east. The table above is calculated from that position for the current date. It is an astronomical result, not a record of what any particular mosque announced, and the two are not the same thing: congregations set their own interval between the call and the start of prayer, so a local mosque commonly begins some minutes after the time listed here.

One clock across a very wide country

Sudan is broad from east to west, and it keeps a single time offset across the whole of it. That combination produces something worth understanding before comparing this page with any other Sudanese city: the sun does not arrive everywhere at once, but the clock pretends it does.

Longitude moves solar events by roughly four minutes per degree. Khartoum sits near the middle of the country's east-west span. Cities to the east reach every prayer earlier on the clock than the capital does, and cities to the west reach them later, with the gap running to a quarter of an hour or more in each direction. The full spread between the country's eastern and western extremes approaches three quarters of an hour. This is not a difference in method or a discrepancy to be reconciled — it is simply what happens when a wide country shares one clock, and it is the single most important reason not to use the capital's table elsewhere in Sudan.

The method, in brief

Sudan applies the parameters of Egypt's General Authority of Survey, carried in calculation libraries as method 5: a dawn angle of 19.5 degrees and a nightfall angle of 17.5. The timezone is UTC+2 throughout the year, with no seasonal adjustment. The Sudan prayer times hub sets out why these figures are used and how they compare with the alternatives; this page takes them as given.

One local consequence is worth noting. A 19.5-degree dawn angle is among the wider ones in general use, which places Fajr comparatively early relative to sunrise. If you have moved here from a country using a narrower angle, the pre-dawn window will feel longer than you are used to, and an application still set to its previous default will disagree with the mosques around you.

Asr and the school followed here

Maliki practice predominates in Sudan, and this page uses the corresponding threshold: Asr begins once an object's shadow has grown by the object's own height beyond the shadow it cast at midday. Shafi'i and Hanbali scholarship agrees. The Hanafi school waits for the shadow to double, giving a later time by a margin that changes through the year. The figure shown here should match what is posted locally.

Greater Khartoum: three cities, one set of times

The capital region spans Khartoum, Khartoum North and Omdurman, separated by the two rivers. They are close enough in both latitude and longitude that their prayer times differ by seconds. A resident of any of the three can use this page without introducing error, and Omdurman prayer times exist as a separate page because the coordinates are genuinely distinct, not because the difference is one anybody could act on.

This is the opposite of the situation across the country as a whole. Within the capital region, coordinates barely matter; between the capital and the east or west of Sudan, they matter a great deal.

Sunrise, and what it marks

Sunrise is listed but is not a prayer. It closes the window during which Fajr may still be prayed. It does not mark the beginning of the fast in Ramadan — Fajr does, and Fajr comes earlier. Given how wide the dawn angle is here, the interval between the two is substantial, which makes the distinction more consequential in Sudan than in many places.

Jumu'ah in the capital's mosques

Jumu'ah replaces Dhuhr for those attending, called at the Dhuhr time shown above. Sermon length varies between mosques and imams. Those who do not attend, including women praying at home, pray Dhuhr at its ordinary listed time.

Ramadan in the capital

Fajr closes the pre-dawn meal and Maghrib opens the fast. Both move steadily across the month, and the direction depends on where Ramadan sits in the solar year. Because Isha is derived from a twilight angle here rather than from a fixed interval after sunset, the gap between Maghrib and Isha is not constant — it widens and narrows with the season, so the interval between iftar and taraweeh is not the same in every Ramadan. The monthly view is the reliable reference; a single day's figures will not hold across thirty.

Qibla and other Sudanese pages

Use the Qibla direction tool to establish the direction of prayer from your position rather than working from a remembered bearing. The Hijri calendar covers Ramadan and Eid dates, and Arabic readers can use the Arabic Khartoum schedule. For anywhere outside the capital region the coordinate difference is real: see Wad Madani prayer times to the south-east, Kassala prayer times in the east, or Nyala prayer times in the far west, where the gap against this page is largest.