Prayer Times in Pontefract, England

Jummah time Pontefract

Friday prayer (Jummah) replaces Dhuhr on Fridays. The calculated Dhuhr start in Pontefract this Friday is 11:56; the khutbah and congregation times are set by each masjid, so check with your local mosque.

Tahajjud time, Islamic midnight and Duha in Pontefract

Tonight's night prayer times and tomorrow morning's voluntary prayer times in Pontefract, worked out from the same Maghrib and Fajr times as the table above.

Islamic midnight

23:02Halfway between Maghrib and Fajr

Last third of the night (Tahajjud)

01:18Until Fajr at 05:52

Ishraq

07:45About 15 minutes after sunrise (07:30)

Duha

07:45 – 11:55From Ishraq until Dhuhr (11:55)

Voluntary prayer is disliked while the sun is rising (until about 15 minutes after sunrise at 07:30), at its zenith (just before Dhuhr at 11:55) and while it is setting (just before Maghrib at 16:12). The schools differ in the details, for example about the time after Asr and about make-up prayers, so ask your own scholar if you are unsure.

The night is counted from Maghrib to the next Fajr. Times are calculated for Pontefract with the same method as the rest of this page; they are not congregation times.

Adhkar after prayer

Duas to say now, taken from Hisn al-Muslim. The set changes with the time of day on this page.

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Salah times Pontefract: calculation method and Asr

Method: Moonsighting Committee. Asr: Hanafi. Hanafi Asr is highlighted because it is followed by most mosques in United Kingdom.

Pontefract prayer timetable November 2026

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Islamic prayer times in Pontefract across the year

Across 2026, Fajr in Pontefract moves between 02:33 and 06:41, and Maghrib between 15:47 and 21:43. The longest fasting day, dawn to sunset, is 19h 10m on 22 June; the shortest is 9h 11m on 19 December.

Earliest Fajr

02:3319 June

Latest Fajr

06:411 January

Earliest Maghrib

15:4712 December

Latest Maghrib

21:4322 June

Longest fasting day

19h 10m22 June

Shortest fasting day

9h 11m19 December

Qibla

119.7° ESE4,982 km

Daylight saving

29 March, 25 OctoberEurope/London

Clocks change on 29 March and 25 October. Prayer times on those days shift by an hour on the clock, not in the sky. Pontefract is above 48° latitude, so in summer twilight never fully ends. The Moonsighting Committee method then limits Fajr and Isha with its seasonal adjustment, a standard high latitude rule. How times are calculated

Pontefract, the Sun and the clock

Pontefract is in England and has about 45,000 people. The nearest larger city is Wakefield, 12 km to the west. Pontefract lies 1.3° west of the 0° meridian that its time zone is based on. The Sun therefore reaches its highest point about 5 minutes after 12:00 on average, around 12:05, and Dhuhr comes later than the clock suggests. In summer, when the clocks go forward an hour, that moment moves to around 13:05.

The Sun never stands straight overhead in Pontefract: at Dhuhr it climbs to about 60° above the horizon in June and only 13° in December, so noon shadows are much longer in December. Days in Pontefract range from just 7h 26m in December to 17h 5m in June, a difference of 9h 39m. Prayer times move a lot through the year: in June Fajr comes very early and Isha very late.

Maghrib time Pontefract compared with nearby cities

Prayer times shift with longitude: about 4 minutes for every degree east or west. Here is how today's Fajr and Maghrib in nearby places compare with Pontefract, calculated with the same method.

Muslim prayer times near Pontefract

• Castleford 5 km
• Kippax 9 km
• South Elmsall 11 km
• Wakefield 12 km
• Lofthouse 13 km
• Adwick le Street 16 km
• Ossett 18 km
• Darton 18 km
• Selby 19 km
• Barnsley 19 km

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