Prayer Times in Doha — May 2024

Reading the May 2024 table

Prayer times in Doha today (Monday, 31 August 2026): Fajr 03:53, Sunrise 05:14, Dhuhr 11:34, Asr 15:04, Maghrib 17:55, Isha 19:25. Times are computed from the city’s coordinates, the Asia/Qatar timezone (UTC+3), the Umm al-Qura University, Makkah convention and Standard (single-shadow) Asr.

Doha is listed under Doha in Qatar. The engine uses 25.2854 latitude and 51.5310 longitude with IANA zone Asia/Qatar. 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 2.4 million people.

Doha 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 05:14 and Maghrib is at 17:55. Dhuhr (11:34) tracks astronomical noon plus a small equation-of-time correction, which is why a printed table copied from another country will not match Doha.

The Umm al-Qura University, Makkah method is the starting point on this Doha 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. Official Gulf tables generally follow Umm al-Qura, with Isha a fixed interval after Maghrib rather than a twilight angle.

Doha (Qatar) 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 Doha is 252.6° from true north (WSW), about 1,269 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 Al Rayyan (11 km), prayer times in Manama (141 km), prayer times in Khobar (169 km), prayer times in Dammam (192 km), prayer times in Abu Dhabi (302 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 Doha timetable for August 2026. A year view lives at prayer times in Doha for 2026. More cities in Qatar are listed on the Qatar 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 Doha is typically accurate to one or two minutes on a clear horizon.