Prayer Times in Cologne — 2024

If you are in Cologne today (Monday, 31 August 2026), the five daily prayers fall at 04:40 (Fajr), 13:32 (Dhuhr), 17:17 (Asr), 20:21 (Maghrib) and 22:15 (Isha). Times are computed from the city’s coordinates, the Europe/Berlin timezone (UTC+2 · CEST), the Muslim World League convention and Standard (single-shadow) Asr.

Cologne is listed under North Rhine-Westphalia in Germany. The engine uses 50.9375 latitude and 6.9603 longitude with IANA zone Europe/Berlin. 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 1.1 million people.

For the latitude of Cologne, day length changes clearly from winter to summer. In August 2026 sunrise is 06:44 and Maghrib is 20:21. Dhuhr (13:32) sits near local solar noon. That seasonal swing is the reason a UK timetable cannot be reused in Germany, and why this page is calculated from Cologne’s own coordinates rather than a national average.

Calculation for Cologne starts from Muslim World League. Changing the method moves Fajr and Isha by several minutes; changing Asr madhhab moves only Asr. 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.

Cologne (Germany) 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 Cologne is 126.7° from true north (SE), about 4,345 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 Düsseldorf (35 km), prayer times in Dortmund (73 km), prayer times in Frankfurt (153 km), prayer times in Stuttgart (288 km), prayer times in Hamburg (356 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 Cologne timetable for August 2026. A year view lives at prayer times in Cologne for 2026. More cities in Germany are listed on the Germany 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 Cologne is typically accurate to one or two minutes on a clear horizon.