Prayer Times in Chennai — January 2024

Reading the January 2024 table

Prayer times in Chennai today (Monday, 31 August 2026): Fajr 04:46, Sunrise 05:58, Dhuhr 12:09, Asr 16:31, Maghrib 18:22, Isha 19:33. Times are computed from the city’s coordinates, the Asia/Kolkata timezone (UTC+5:30 · IST), the University of Islamic Sciences, Karachi convention and Hanafi (double-shadow) Asr.

Chennai sits in Tamil Nadu, India, at 13.0827°, 80.2707°. 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 7.1 million people.

Chennai is close enough to the tropics that twilight angles are usually reached every night of the year. High-latitude patches are rarely needed. In August 2026 the sun rises at 05:58 and Maghrib is at 18:22. Dhuhr (12:09) tracks astronomical noon plus a small equation-of-time correction, which is why a printed table copied from another country will not match Chennai.

The University of Islamic Sciences, Karachi method is the starting point on this Chennai 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. Subcontinental pocket calendars almost always use Karachi angles with Hanafi Asr. Confirm against the local mosque in Ramadan, when some boards add a precaution.

Muslims in Chennai 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 Chennai is 287.9° from true north (WNW), about 4,381 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 Bengaluru (290 km), prayer times in Hyderabad (515 km), prayer times in Kozhikode (529 km), prayer times in Kochi (559 km), prayer times in Pune (914 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 Chennai timetable for August 2026. A year view lives at prayer times in Chennai for 2026. More cities in India are listed on the India 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 Chennai is typically accurate to one or two minutes on a clear horizon.