Prayer Times in Dakar — 2024

Today’s Islamic salah schedule for Dakar — Sunday, 30 August 2026 — is Fajr at 05:45, Dhuhr at 13:10, Asr at 16:25, Maghrib at 19:24 and Isha at 20:31. Sunrise (Shuruq) is 06:58. Times are computed from the city’s coordinates, the Africa/Dakar timezone (UTC+0 · GMT), the Muslim World League convention and Standard (single-shadow) Asr.

Dakar is listed under Dakar in Senegal. The engine uses 14.7167 latitude and -17.4677 longitude with IANA zone Africa/Dakar. 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.

Dakar 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 06:58 and Maghrib is at 19:24. Dhuhr (13:10) tracks astronomical noon plus a small equation-of-time correction, which is why a printed table copied from another country will not match Dakar.

Calculation for Dakar 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.

Dakar (Senegal) 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 Dakar is 73.9° from true north (ENE), about 6,071 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 Agadir (1923 km), prayer times in Kumasi (1946 km), prayer times in Marrakesh (2113 km), prayer times in Accra (2144 km), prayer times in Casablanca (2321 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 Dakar timetable for August 2026. A year view lives at prayer times in Dakar for 2026. More cities in Senegal are listed on the Senegal 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 Dakar is typically accurate to one or two minutes on a clear horizon.