SalahNowSierra Leone prayer times
Daily and monthly prayer times for towns across Sierra Leone. The times are calculated with the Muslim World League method, and every row is labelled as calculated with the method named.
Scope of this claim
No institutional timetable is served for Sierra Leone. The times are calculated from each town’s coordinates with the Muslim World League method and have not been compared cell by cell with a local mosque calendar, so this page makes no 0-minute claim.
Calculation and source
- Method
- Muslim World League
- Fajr 18°, isha 17°; a calculation, not a published timetable.
- Asr
- Asr begins when an object’s shadow equals its length, the Maliki practice followed by most mosques in Sierra Leone. The Hanafi shadow-two Asr can be selected in the app; the other five times stay where they are.
- Precaution minutes
- None. The app adds no precaution minutes and personal minute adjustments start at zero.
- Time zone
- Sierra Leone does not observe daylight saving time, so the table never jumps by an hour. The eastern border lies about three degrees of longitude east of Freetown, so the sun rises and sets there roughly twelve minutes earlier by the clock.
- Hijri calendar and crescent
- The start of Ramadan and both Eids is announced by the country’s Islamic bodies after the crescent is sought. The Hijri dates on these pages and in the app are calculated and can differ from the announcement by a day.
Sierra Leone prayer times
Which method the times use
For Sierra Leone the app does not read a timetable published by an institution; it calculates the times from each town’s coordinates. The method is that of the Muslim World League: fajr begins when the sun is 18 degrees below the horizon and isha when it is 17 degrees below, while sunrise, dhuhr, asr and maghrib follow from the sun’s position over the town on that day. The times have not been compared cell by cell with a local mosque calendar, so this page does not say “0-minute difference”, and every row is labelled as calculated.
From the Freetown peninsula to the eastern hills
Sierra Leone is compact, but the distance still counts. Freetown sits on its peninsula at the Atlantic edge, while Kenema, Koidu and the towns near the eastern border lie about three degrees of longitude further east, so the sun rises and sets there roughly twelve minutes earlier on the same clock. Between seven and ten degrees north of the equator the length of the day hardly changes through the year and twilight is short, so maghrib and isha stay close together in every season. Choose your own town, or the nearest listed town at a similar longitude.
The difference with the mosque calendar
Local calendars often add a few precaution minutes to some prayers and may use slightly different angles for fajr and isha. The app adds no margin of its own. If you see a steady difference of a few minutes against your mosque, the per-prayer minute adjustment in the app will close it without changing the method. Compare on the same day and for the same town.
Ramadan and reminders
Each town page shows today’s six times and a thirty-day table; during Ramadan the same data produces the Ramadan timetable, with fajr as suhoor and maghrib as iftar. In the app, every prayer can have an adhan sound or a silent alert and a reminder a few minutes early, and the widget keeps the next prayer on the home screen.
Questions
Which calculation method does the app use for Sierra Leone?
Can I use Freetown’s times in Kenema?
Does Sierra Leone observe summer time?
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