How are prayer times calculated for Leicester?
Sitting at roughly 52.64°N in Leicestershire, Leicester 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 07:42 and Maghrib falls at 17:54, giving 10h 11m between the two. As the year turns this daylight window lengthens and shortens, which is why Fajr (currently 05:48) and Isha (currently 19:42) shift gradually from week to week.
When praying in Leicester, 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 4,915 km.
Prayer times in Leicester are very close to those in neighbouring towns, though they differ by a minute or two with distance. Nearby you can also check Nuneaton (26 km), Rugby (31 km) and Corby (34 km).