How are prayer times calculated for Rotherham?
Sitting at roughly 53.43°N in South Yorkshire, Rotherham 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 07:45 and Maghrib falls at 17:53, giving 10h 8m between the two. As the year turns this daylight window lengthens and shortens, which is why Fajr (currently 05:48) and Isha (currently 19:43) shift gradually from week to week.
When praying in Rotherham, 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 4,971 km.
Prayer times in Rotherham are very close to those in neighbouring towns, though they differ by a minute or two with distance. Nearby you can also check Sheffield (9 km), Barnsley (16 km) and Doncaster (18 km).