Fajr Prayer Times — Mascara, Algeria – 04:49
Today's Islamic prayer times in Mascara, Algeria include Fajr, Dhuhr, Asr, Maghrib and Isha. View the full Muslim prayer timetable for today and the upcoming days.
Fajr Prayer Times
04:49
Mascara, Algeria · Egyptian General Authority of Survey
Today's Salah Times in Mascara
Dawn breaks over Mascara at 04:49. Meet it in sujood and the rest of the day arranges itself.
Why Light Bends Before Sunrise
Atmospheric refraction lifts the sun’s image above the geometric horizon, lengthening dawn — your 98-minute window in Mascara already accounts for this.
This Week vs Today
In seven days Mascara’s Fajr will be 7 minutes later than today’s 04:49 — small enough to miss, large enough to break a routine.
Timezone vs Solar Noon
In Mascara, Fajr at 04:49 answers to solar geometry, not the political clock — that is why two cities in the same timezone often differ.
Umm al-Qura
The Umm al-Qura method, developed in Makkah, anchors Fajr to a defined offset before sunrise rather than a single solar angle.
Distance from Hypocrisy
Heaviest on the hypocrites are Fajr and Isha; in Mascara that means 04:49 and Isha together draw a quiet line.
Twilight Geometry
Light progresses from astronomical dawn to sunrise in about 98 minutes here — at the equator this would be ~75 minutes, at the poles, hours.
Mid-Latitude Balance
Mascara’s 35.4° location avoids both polar dawn distortion and equatorial compression, producing a balanced Fajr cycle around 04:49.
Equinox Fajr
Near each equinox the dawn window in Mascara sits close to its yearly average — today’s 98 minutes is a useful midpoint reference.