Prayer Times in Alexandria — May 2026

Reading the May 2026 table

Accurate prayer times for Alexandria on Monday, 31 August 2026: Fajr 05:04, Shuruq 06:36, Dhuhr 13:01, Asr 16:36, Maghrib 19:26, Isha 20:46. Times are computed from the city’s coordinates, the Africa/Cairo timezone (UTC+3 · EEST), the Egyptian General Authority of Survey convention and Standard (single-shadow) Asr.

Alexandria is listed under Alexandria in Egypt. The engine uses 31.2001 latitude and 29.9187 longitude with IANA zone Africa/Cairo. A mosque a few kilometres away will usually match these times to the minute; a different city, even in the same metro area, can drift by two to five minutes because longitude shifts solar noon. The urban area is on the order of 5.3 million people.

For the latitude of Alexandria, day length changes clearly from winter to summer. In August 2026 sunrise is 06:36 and Maghrib is 19:26. Dhuhr (13:01) sits near local solar noon. That seasonal swing is the reason a UK timetable cannot be reused in Egypt, and why this page is calculated from Alexandria’s own coordinates rather than a national average.

The Egyptian General Authority of Survey method is the starting point on this Alexandria 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. Egyptian printed calendars use the Survey Authority angles (Fajr 19.5°, Isha 17.5°), which make Fajr earlier than MWL.

Alexandria (Egypt) has both long-established and newer Muslim communities. Jumu'ah times are set by each mosque and are not computed here — only the five daily prayers and sunrise.

Qibla from Alexandria is 135.4° from true north (SE), about 1,467 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 Cairo (180 km), prayer times in Giza (181 km), prayer times in Port Said (227 km), prayer times in Luxor (668 km), prayer times in Aswan (843 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 Alexandria timetable for August 2026. A year view lives at prayer times in Alexandria for 2026. More cities in Egypt are listed on the Egypt 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 Alexandria is typically accurate to one or two minutes on a clear horizon.