How are prayer times calculated for Gillingham?
Sitting at roughly 51.39°N in Kent, Gillingham 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 07:33 and Maghrib falls at 17:50, giving 10h 16m between the two. As the year turns this daylight window lengthens and shortens, which is why Fajr (currently 05:41) and Isha (currently 19:35) shift gradually from week to week.
When praying in Gillingham, 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 4,746 km.
Prayer times in Gillingham are very close to those in neighbouring towns, though they differ by a minute or two with distance. Nearby you can also check Chatham (2 km), Maidstone (13 km) and Gravesend (14 km).