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This study provides a detailed acoustic description of gemination in Rural Jordanian Arabic (RJA), measuring the duration of geminate and singleton consonants across the full range of consonants and positions in an understudied variety of Arabic: RJA, a Levantine dialect spoken by village dwellers in the northern part of Jordan. The results show that position plays a role in phonetic gemination, with medial geminates substantially longer than those in final position. Vowels adjacent to medial consonants were also measured, and when adjacent to a geminate consonant, short vowels are found to be shorter, and long vowels are found to be longer than when adjacent to a singleton consonant.