Prayer Times in Canberra — 2027

Accurate prayer times for Canberra on Monday, 31 August 2026: Fajr 05:00, Shuruq 06:25, Dhuhr 12:04, Asr 15:16, Maghrib 17:44, Isha 19:03. Times are computed from the city’s coordinates, the Australia/Sydney timezone (UTC+10 · AEST), the Muslim World League convention and Standard (single-shadow) Asr.

Canberra is listed under Australian Capital Territory in Australia. The engine uses -35.2809 latitude and 149.1300 longitude with IANA zone Australia/Sydney. 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 430,000 people.

For the latitude of Canberra, day length changes clearly from winter to summer. In August 2026 sunrise is 06:25 and Maghrib is 17:44. Dhuhr (12:04) sits near local solar noon. That seasonal swing is the reason a UK timetable cannot be reused in Australia, and why this page is calculated from Canberra’s own coordinates rather than a national average.

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

Canberra (Australia) 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 Canberra is 277.8° from true north (W), about 13,069 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 Sydney (247 km), prayer times in Melbourne (467 km), prayer times in Hobart (859 km), prayer times in Gold Coast (903 km), prayer times in Brisbane (944 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 Canberra timetable for August 2026. A year view lives at prayer times in Canberra for 2026. More cities in Australia are listed on the Australia 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 Canberra is typically accurate to one or two minutes on a clear horizon.