How are prayer times calculated for Gateshead?
Sitting at roughly 54.95°N in Tyne and Wear, Gateshead has its own sunrise and sunset each day, so its prayer times are worked out from its exact position rather than a regional average.
Today the sun rises at 07:51 and Maghrib falls at 17:48, giving 9h 57m between the two. As the year turns this daylight window lengthens and shortens, which is why Fajr (currently 05:51) and Isha (currently 19:43) shift gradually from week to week.
When praying in Gateshead, the Qibla is faced towards the Kaaba in Makkah, which lies on a bearing of 120° from here, roughly to the south-east — a great-circle distance of about 5,069 km.
Prayer times in Gateshead are very close to those in neighbouring towns, though they differ by a minute or two with distance. Nearby you can also check Newcastle (3 km), Sunderland (15 km) and Darlington (48 km).