How are prayer times calculated for Rochdale?
Sitting at roughly 53.61°N in Greater Manchester, Rochdale 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 07:48 and Maghrib falls at 17:56, giving 10h 7m between the two. As the year turns this daylight window lengthens and shortens, which is why Fajr (currently 05:51) and Isha (currently 19:46) shift gradually from week to week.
When praying in Rochdale, 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 5,027 km.
Prayer times in Rochdale are very close to those in neighbouring towns, though they differ by a minute or two with distance. Nearby you can also check Oldham (8 km), Bury (9 km) and Ashton-under-Lyne (14 km).