Prayer Times in Damascus — 2023

Accurate prayer times for Damascus on Monday, 31 August 2026: Fajr 04:34, Shuruq 06:08, Dhuhr 12:35, Asr 16:12, Maghrib 19:03, Isha 20:26. Times are computed from the city’s coordinates, the Asia/Damascus timezone (UTC+3), the Egyptian General Authority of Survey convention and Standard (single-shadow) Asr.

Damascus sits in Damascus, Syria, at 33.5138°, 36.2765°. 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 2.0 million people.

For the latitude of Damascus, day length changes clearly from winter to summer. In August 2026 sunrise is 06:08 and Maghrib is 19:03. Dhuhr (12:35) sits near local solar noon. That seasonal swing is the reason a UK timetable cannot be reused in Syria, and why this page is calculated from Damascus’s own coordinates rather than a national average.

The Egyptian General Authority of Survey method is the starting point on this Damascus 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.

Muslims in Damascus 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 Damascus is 164.5° from true north (SSE), about 1,389 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 Aleppo (309 km), prayer times in Beirut (83 km), prayer times in Tripoli (110 km), prayer times in Irbid (114 km), prayer times in Haifa (144 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 Damascus timetable for August 2026. A year view lives at prayer times in Damascus for 2026. More cities in Syria are listed on the Syria 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 Damascus is typically accurate to one or two minutes on a clear horizon.