Jeddah, Saudi Arabia's cosmopolitan gateway city and commercial capital on the Red Sea, is home to around 500,000 Indians. The community spans Gujarati textile and garment traders in the historic Balad district, Malayali nurses and doctors at King Abdulaziz Medical City, Tamil construction workers building the new Jeddah Central mega-project, and tech professionals in Jeddah's growing startup ecosystem. The Indian Consulate General in Jeddah, one of India's busiest consulates in the Gulf, processes over 100,000 applications annually, a marker of community scale.
Jeddah is at 21.49°N, closer to the equator than Riyadh (24.69°N), which means its sunrise times are more stable across the year: ranging from about 5:30 AM in June to 6:20 AM in December, only 50 minutes of seasonal variation. But the constant UTC+3 timezone still puts Jeddah 2.5 hours behind IST, making IST-based Rahu Kaal systematically wrong every day. CosmosPandit calculates from Jeddah's own coordinates (21.4858°N, 39.1925°E).
Note: Jeddah's sunrise is approximately 22–25 minutes earlier than Riyadh's due to its more western longitude. For Indians who travel between the two cities, this makes a noticeable difference in Rahu Kaal timing. Always check the page for your specific city.
Astronomically precise Rahu Kaal timings for 25 major Indian cities.