Prayer Times in Accra — August 2024

Reading the August 2024 table

Accurate prayer times for Accra on Sunday, 30 August 2026: Fajr 04:44, Shuruq 05:55, Dhuhr 12:01, Asr 15:09, Maghrib 18:09, Isha 19:14. Times are computed from the city’s coordinates, the Africa/Accra timezone (UTC+0 · GMT), the Muslim World League convention and Standard (single-shadow) Asr.

Coordinates for Accra: 5.6037, -0.1870. Time zone Africa/Accra (UTC+0 · GMT) already includes daylight saving when the zone observes it, so you do not add or subtract an hour by hand in August. The urban area is on the order of 2.3 million people.

Accra is close enough to the tropics that twilight angles are usually reached every night of the year. High-latitude patches are rarely needed. In August 2026 the sun rises at 05:55 and Maghrib is at 18:09. Dhuhr (12:01) tracks astronomical noon plus a small equation-of-time correction, which is why a printed table copied from another country will not match Accra.

The Muslim World League method is the starting point on this Accra page. Fajr and Isha are defined by solar depression angles (or, for Umm al-Qura, a Maghrib-plus-minutes rule). Asr is shown with the Standard shadow factor of 1, used by the Shafi'i, Maliki and Hanbali schools and by most Western mosque boards. If a local mosque publishes a different Fajr or Isha angle, pick that method in the selector or apply a minute offset.

Travellers through Accra should remember that airport and hotel clocks follow civil time, which this timetable already uses. Maghrib is tied to sunset at the city’s coordinates, not to the time a flight lands.

Qibla from Accra is 63.8° from true north (ENE), about 4,650 km from the Kaaba in Makkah. A phone compass is only as good as its calibration; once you have identified a wall that faces that bearing, you can mark it and stop re-measuring every day. Magnetic declination is not applied on this page — the figure is geographic, which is what a qibla diagram expects.

Nearby timetables: prayer times in Kumasi (200 km), prayer times in Lagos (407 km), prayer times in Ibadan (497 km), prayer times in Abuja (921 km), prayer times in Kaduna (999 km). Neighbouring cities share almost the same latitude, so Fajr and Isha usually differ by one to four minutes — mostly longitude and the minute the time zone snaps to.

The full August grid is on the Accra timetable for August 2026. A year view lives at prayer times in Accra for 2026. More cities in Ghana are listed on the Ghana prayer times page. Figures refresh automatically each day.

This page is an astronomical estimate, not a fatwa and not a substitute for the announcement in your local masjid. Some congregations publish a one- to three-minute precaution. If your mosque uses a different Fajr angle, switch the method above or apply a manual minute offset. For personal prayer, a coordinate-based calculation for Accra is typically accurate to one or two minutes on a clear horizon.