Prayer times in Groß-Umstadt, 2026

Today in Groß-Umstadt

Sunday, 11 October 2026 · 30 Rabiʻ II 1448 AH · local time CEST (UTC+2)

Calculated and checked: on all 231 days of 2026 outside Diyanet’s summer period, our six times for Groß-Umstadt are within 3 minutes of Aladhan, an independently written calculator run with the same settings. Checked on 11 October 2026.

Each time marks the start of a prayer’s window: broadly, Fajr lasts until sunrise (07:32 today), Dhuhr until Asr begins, Asr until sunset and Maghrib until Isha. If you are new to praying in Germany, expect the times to move quickly: this month Maghrib in Groß-Umstadt shifts by up to 3 min and Fajr by up to 2 min from one day to the next, far more than near the equator, so check the table rather than last week’s times.

Groß-Umstadt prayer timetable for October 2026

Every day of the month for Groß-Umstadt; today is highlighted and Fridays are shaded. The Hanafi Asr column appears on wider screens.

Short summer nights in Groß-Umstadt

Groß-Umstadt lies at 49.9° north. In 2026 the longest day here has 16 h 35 min of daylight and the shortest only 8 h 20 min, so Fajr and Isha swing much more over the year than in Turkey, North Africa or South Asia. Around midsummer the sky never gets fully dark: from 16 May to 26 July the sun does not sink far enough below the horizon, and Fajr and Isha are set by a night rule instead (marked * in the table). From 16 April to 27 August Diyanet also switches to its own summer rule for Fajr and Isha, which we cannot reproduce; on those days (marked °) its published Fajr can be up to about 55 minutes later and its Isha up to about 50 minutes earlier than ours. If your mosque follows the Diyanet calendar, use its timetable for those weeks.

Longest day

16 h 35 min of daylight on 21 June

Shortest day

8 h 20 min on 21 December

Earliest Fajr

02:57 on 1 June (night rule)

Latest Isha

23:41 on 23 June (night rule)

Maghrib

earliest 16:30 (8 December), latest 21:44 (21 June)

Sunrise

earliest 05:08 (13 June), latest 08:15 (1 January)

Qibla direction from Groß-Umstadt

The Qibla from Groß-Umstadt is 128° from true north, measured clockwise: roughly south-east. The Kaaba in Makkah is about 4,162 km away along the shortest path over the globe. A phone compass shows magnetic north, which in Germany is currently only a few degrees from true north, so the difference hardly matters when you set up a prayer mat.

Mosques in Groß-Umstadt

Our data has no mosque in Groß-Umstadt (Hesse) yet. It comes from OpenStreetMap, where small prayer rooms and mosques inside ordinary buildings are often missing, so this does not mean there is no community in town; asking locally or at the nearest larger mosque usually helps. The closest city on our list with mosques is Erlenbach am Main, 18 km away (prayer times in Erlenbach am Main).

Prayer times in nearby cities

Today’s times in the five closest larger cities (50,000+ inhabitants) that have their own page. The sun moves about one degree of longitude every four minutes, so cities further east pray earlier: 1 of these five have an earlier Dhuhr than Groß-Umstadt. “Dhuhr ±” is the difference to Groß-Umstadt in minutes.

Towns near Groß-Umstadt

• Dieburg (7 km)
• Reinheim (8 km)
• Babenhausen (11 km)
• Großostheim (12 km)
• Ober-Ramstadt (14 km)
• Rodgau (18 km)
• Erlenbach am Main (18 km)
• Dietzenbach (19 km)

How the times are calculated

The times are calculated from the position of the sun over the centre of Groß-Umstadt (49.87° N, 8.93° E, from GeoNames, CC BY 4.0), not copied from any timetable. By default we use settings that match the tables Diyanet (Türkiye’s Presidency of Religious Affairs) publishes for German cities: Fajr when the sun is 18° below the horizon, Isha at 16.15°, plus the minute offsets found in those tables (sunrise −7, Dhuhr +5, Asr +4, Maghrib +7 minutes). Asr uses the majority rule (shadow equal to the object’s length plus its midday shadow); the Hanafi time (twice the length) is shown as well.

Before a city gets a page, we compare its times for a whole year with the Aladhan API, an independently written calculator, run with the same settings, and for the largest cities also with Diyanet’s own published yearly table; only cities that stay within 3 minutes on every day outside the summer weeks described above are published. For Groß-Umstadt the largest difference was 3 minutes from Aladhan. Aladhan’s Asr follows a slightly different seasonal pattern than ours (up to 2 to 3 minutes apart), while the other five agree within a minute. Many apps use the Muslim World League method instead (Fajr 18°, Isha 17°, no offsets). Here are both for today: