Prayer Times in Anchorage — August 2027

Reading the August 2027 table

Prayer times in Anchorage today (Sunday, 30 August 2026): Fajr 04:17, Sunrise 06:47, Dhuhr 14:00, Asr 17:45, Maghrib 21:13, Isha 23:41. Times are computed from the city’s coordinates, the America/Anchorage timezone (UTC−8 · AKDT), the Islamic Society of North America convention and Standard (single-shadow) Asr.

Coordinates for Anchorage: 61.2181, -149.9003. Time zone America/Anchorage (UTC−8 · AKDT) already includes daylight saving when the zone observes it, so you do not add or subtract an hour by hand in August. The listed population is about 290,000 people.

At this latitude the northern summer night is short and the winter night is long. Fajr and Isha angles are not always reached in midsummer, so the timetable falls back to a night-portion rule (middle of the night by default). That is why Fajr in Anchorage can look “late” in June and Isha “early” compared with cities closer to the equator. In August 2026 sunrise is 06:47 and Maghrib is 21:13 — a useful check of how compressed or stretched the day currently is.

The Islamic Society of North America method is the starting point on this Anchorage 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. Many North American Islamic centres follow ISNA (15°/15°). If your masjid prints later Fajr than this page, switch the method to ISNA.

Travellers through Anchorage 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 Anchorage is 350.9° from true north (N), about 10,785 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 Seattle (2309 km), prayer times in Portland (2478 km), prayer times in Sacramento (3185 km), prayer times in San Francisco (3226 km), prayer times in Oakland (3229 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 Anchorage timetable for August 2026. A year view lives at prayer times in Anchorage for 2026. More cities in United States are listed on the United States 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 Anchorage is typically accurate to one or two minutes on a clear horizon.