How are prayer times calculated for Sunderland?
Sitting at roughly 54.91°N in Tyne and Wear, Sunderland 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 07:52 and Maghrib falls at 17:45, giving 9h 53m between the two. As the year turns this daylight window lengthens and shortens, which is why Fajr (currently 05:51) and Isha (currently 19:40) shift gradually from week to week.
When praying in Sunderland, 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 5,054 km.
Prayer times in Sunderland are very close to those in neighbouring towns, though they differ by a minute or two with distance. Nearby you can also check Gateshead (15 km), Newcastle (17 km) and Middlesbrough (38 km).