Prayer Times in Baku — 2026

Prayer times in Baku today (Monday, 31 August 2026): Fajr 04:30, Sunrise 06:07, Dhuhr 12:41, Asr 17:20, Maghrib 19:15, Isha 20:45. Times are computed from the city’s coordinates, the Asia/Baku timezone (UTC+4), the Muslim World League convention and Hanafi (double-shadow) Asr.

Coordinates for Baku: 40.4093, 49.8671. Time zone Asia/Baku (UTC+4) 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.

For the latitude of Baku, day length changes clearly from winter to summer. In August 2026 sunrise is 06:07 and Maghrib is 19:15. Dhuhr (12:41) sits near local solar noon. That seasonal swing is the reason a UK timetable cannot be reused in Azerbaijan, and why this page is calculated from Baku’s own coordinates rather than a national average.

The Muslim World League method is the starting point on this Baku page. Fajr and Isha are defined by solar depression angles (or, for Umm al-Qura, a Maghrib-plus-minutes rule). 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.

Travellers through Baku 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 Baku is 207.2° from true north (SSW), about 2,314 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 Ganja (298 km), prayer times in Makhachkala (347 km), prayer times in Tabriz (402 km), prayer times in Tbilisi (447 km), prayer times in Yerevan (454 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 Baku timetable for August 2026. A year view lives at prayer times in Baku for 2026. More cities in Azerbaijan are listed on the Azerbaijan 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 Baku is typically accurate to one or two minutes on a clear horizon.