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Panama City zmanim and Shabbat times

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Panama City's local communities publish Shabbat times themselves: Chabad on chabadpanama.com/jewish-zmanim, Shevet Ahim in its weekly 'Anuncios Comunitarios', and Beth El on its home page. All three light candles 18 minutes before sunset. Shabbat ends at about 8.5 degrees below the horizon for Chabad (for example 6:27 PM on 7 November 2026, sunset 5:55 PM). Shevet Ahim and Beth El publish an end time about 35 minutes after sunset (Shevet Ahim: 6:24 / 7:17 PM for 18-19 July 2025; Beth El: 6:11 / 7:03 PM for 28-29 August 2026). Panama keeps UTC-5 all year with no daylight saving, and sunset moves by only about 48 minutes over the year (about 5:54 PM to 6:42 PM).

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For a given Shabbat, use the time published by the shul you will attend. For a computed calendar, Hebcal's Panama City location (GeoNames 3703443) with an 18-minute candle-lighting offset matches the communities' published candle-lighting times to within a minute. Its default havdalah is 8.5 degrees, which is Chabad's practice; the Sephardi and Ashkenazi shuls end a few minutes later.

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