How are prayer times calculated for Hastings?
Sitting at roughly 50.85°N in East Sussex, Hastings 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 07:35 and Maghrib falls at 17:47, giving 10h 11m between the two. As the year turns this daylight window lengthens and shortens, which is why Fajr (currently 05:45) and Isha (currently 19:31) shift gradually from week to week.
When praying in Hastings, the Qibla is faced towards the Kaaba in Makkah, which lies on a bearing of 119° from here, roughly to the south-east — a great-circle distance of about 4,716 km.
Prayer times in Hastings are very close to those in neighbouring towns, though they differ by a minute or two with distance. Nearby you can also check Eastbourne (22 km), Maidstone (47 km) and Brighton (50 km).