Longest, shortest fasting times around the world for Ramazan

Russia will have the longest fast while Argentina seeing the shortest one

The longest fast will be for 20 hours and 45 minutes in Russia's Murmansk while the shortest will be in Argentina's Ushuala clocking in at 11 hours, according to Gulf News.

With the holy month of Ramazan right around the corner, members of the the Muslim faith will practice tolerance through fasting.

Prayer timings in major cities of these countries were used calculate the intervals between Fajr (preceding sunrise) and Maghrib (marking sunset) on the expected first day of Ramazan.

The fast in Islamabad will be for 15 hours and 14 minutes.

For example, Russia's Murmansk only has 3 hours of darkness, before the sun rises again at 1:41am.



While the city of Ushuaia in Argentina has the shortest fasting time in the world. 11 hours exactly. The sun rises at 6:57am and 5:57pm.

Dubai will be fasting for 14 hours and 39 minutes on the first day of Ramadan.

Interestingly, countries where sunset and sunrise are too close (less than 3 hours apart) or are indistinguishible, fatwas have been issued to allow Muslims to follow the timings of the closest city that has distinguishible day and night timings.



The article originally appeared in Gulf News