Prayer Times in Cairo — 2023

Prayer times in Cairo today (Monday, 31 August 2026): Fajr 05:01, Sunrise 06:31, Dhuhr 12:55, Asr 16:30, Maghrib 19:20, Isha 20:39. 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.

Cairo is listed under Cairo in Egypt. The engine uses 30.0444 latitude and 31.2357 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 10.0 million people.

For the latitude of Cairo, day length changes clearly from winter to summer. In August 2026 sunrise is 06:31 and Maghrib is 19:20. Dhuhr (12:55) 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 Cairo’s own coordinates rather than a national average.

The Egyptian General Authority of Survey method is the starting point on this Cairo 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.

Cairo’s historic mosques and the Egyptian Survey Authority tables use a deep Fajr angle (19.5°). Switching this page to the Egyptian method will move Fajr earlier than MWL.

Qibla from Cairo is 136.1° from true north (SE), about 1,287 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 Giza (4 km), prayer times in Port Said (170 km), prayer times in Alexandria (180 km), prayer times in Luxor (504 km), prayer times in Aswan (682 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 Cairo timetable for August 2026. A year view lives at prayer times in Cairo 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 Cairo is typically accurate to one or two minutes on a clear horizon.