How are prayer times calculated for Ipswich?
Ipswich lies at a latitude of about 52.06°N, in Suffolk. Because prayer times depend on the position of the sun at a given location, the timings here are calculated specifically for these coordinates rather than borrowed from another town.
Today the sun rises at 07:34 and Maghrib falls at 17:44, giving 10h 10m between the two. As the year turns this daylight window lengthens and shortens, which is why Fajr (currently 05:40) and Isha (currently 19:31) shift gradually from week to week.
When praying in Ipswich, the Qibla is faced towards the Kaaba in Makkah, which lies on a bearing of 121° from here, roughly to the south-east — a great-circle distance of about 4,748 km.
Prayer times in Ipswich are very close to those in neighbouring towns, though they differ by a minute or two with distance. Nearby you can also check Colchester (25 km), Chelmsford (58 km) and Southend-on-Sea (64 km).