Prayer Times in Colombo — 2024

If you are in Colombo today (Monday, 31 August 2026), the five daily prayers fall at 04:53 (Fajr), 12:11 (Dhuhr), 15:16 (Asr), 18:19 (Maghrib) and 19:25 (Isha). Times are computed from the city’s coordinates, the Asia/Colombo timezone (UTC+5:30), the Muslim World League convention and Standard (single-shadow) Asr.

Coordinates for Colombo: 6.9271, 79.8612. Time zone Asia/Colombo (UTC+5:30) already includes daylight saving when the zone observes it, so you do not add or subtract an hour by hand in August. The listed population is about 750,000 people.

Colombo 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 06:03 and Maghrib is at 18:19. Dhuhr (12:11) tracks astronomical noon plus a small equation-of-time correction, which is why a printed table copied from another country will not match Colombo.

Calculation for Colombo 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.

Travellers through Colombo should remember that airport and hotel clocks follow civil time, which this timetable already uses. Maghrib is tied to sunset at the city’s coordinates, not to the time a flight lands.

Qibla from Colombo is 294.8° from true north (WNW), about 4,589 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 Kandy (94 km), prayer times in Kochi (518 km), prayer times in Kozhikode (658 km), prayer times in Chennai (686 km), prayer times in Bengaluru (716 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 Colombo timetable for August 2026. A year view lives at prayer times in Colombo for 2026. More cities in Sri Lanka are listed on the Sri Lanka 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 Colombo is typically accurate to one or two minutes on a clear horizon.