Prayer Times in Ankara — May 2026

Reading the May 2026 table

If you are in Ankara today (Monday, 31 August 2026), the five daily prayers fall at 04:40 (Fajr), 12:49 (Dhuhr), 17:28 (Asr), 19:23 (Maghrib) and 20:52 (Isha). Times are computed from the city’s coordinates, the Europe/Istanbul timezone (UTC+3), the Muslim World League convention and Hanafi (double-shadow) Asr.

Ankara sits in Ankara, Turkey, at 39.9334°, 32.8597°. Those two numbers — latitude and longitude — are the entire geographic input for the timetable. Population on this page is treated as a ranking signal only; the prayer times themselves depend on the sun’s altitude as seen from this point on Earth. The urban area is on the order of 5.7 million people.

For the latitude of Ankara, day length changes clearly from winter to summer. In August 2026 sunrise is 06:15 and Maghrib is 19:23. Dhuhr (12:49) sits near local solar noon. That seasonal swing is the reason a UK timetable cannot be reused in Turkey, and why this page is calculated from Ankara’s own coordinates rather than a national average.

Calculation for Ankara starts from Muslim World League. Changing the method moves Fajr and Isha by several minutes; changing Asr madhhab moves only Asr. Asr is shown in the Hanafi manner (shadow factor 2), which is the usual printed convention in much of South and Central Asia. If a local mosque publishes a different Fajr or Isha angle, pick that method in the selector or apply a minute offset.

Muslims in Ankara use a mix of mosque timetables, printed pocket calendars and apps. The figures on this page are meant to sit next to those sources: same coordinates, transparent method, no hidden offset unless you add one.

Qibla from Ankara is 160.2° from true north (SSE), about 2,162 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 Konya (231 km), prayer times in Kayseri (262 km), prayer times in Bursa (324 km), prayer times in Istanbul (349 km), prayer times in Antalya (386 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 Ankara timetable for August 2026. A year view lives at prayer times in Ankara for 2026. More cities in Turkey are listed on the Turkey 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 Ankara is typically accurate to one or two minutes on a clear horizon.