Prayer Times in Basel — March 2028

Reading the March 2028 table

Accurate prayer times for Basel on Monday, 31 August 2026: Fajr 04:54, Shuruq 06:47, Dhuhr 13:30, Asr 17:14, Maghrib 20:13, Isha 21:57. Times are computed from the city’s coordinates, the Europe/Zurich timezone (UTC+2 · CEST), the Muslim World League convention and Standard (single-shadow) Asr.

Basel is listed under Basel in Switzerland. The engine uses 47.5596 latitude and 7.5886 longitude with IANA zone Europe/Zurich. 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 listed population is about 180,000 people.

For the latitude of Basel, day length changes clearly from winter to summer. In August 2026 sunrise is 06:47 and Maghrib is 20:13. Dhuhr (13:30) sits near local solar noon. That seasonal swing is the reason a UK timetable cannot be reused in Switzerland, and why this page is calculated from Basel’s own coordinates rather than a national average.

The Muslim World League method is the starting point on this Basel 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.

Basel (Switzerland) 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 Basel is 124.0° from true north (SE), about 4,090 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 Zurich (74 km), prayer times in Geneva (186 km), prayer times in Strasbourg (113 km), prayer times in Stuttgart (180 km), prayer times in Milan (263 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 Basel timetable for August 2026. A year view lives at prayer times in Basel for 2026. More cities in Switzerland are listed on the Switzerland 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 Basel is typically accurate to one or two minutes on a clear horizon.