Prayer Times in Dubai — December 2028

Reading the December 2028 table

Accurate prayer times for Dubai on Monday, 31 August 2026: Fajr 04:38, Shuruq 05:59, Dhuhr 12:19, Asr 15:49, Maghrib 18:40, Isha 20:10. Times are computed from the city’s coordinates, the Asia/Dubai timezone (UTC+4), the Umm al-Qura University, Makkah convention and Standard (single-shadow) Asr.

Coordinates for Dubai: 25.2048, 55.2708. Time zone Asia/Dubai (UTC+4) already includes daylight saving when the zone observes it, so you do not add or subtract an hour by hand in August. The urban area is on the order of 3.4 million people.

Dubai 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 05:59 and Maghrib is at 18:40. Dhuhr (12:19) tracks astronomical noon plus a small equation-of-time correction, which is why a printed table copied from another country will not match Dubai.

The Umm al-Qura University, Makkah method is the starting point on this Dubai 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.

Dubai official times generally follow Umm al-Qura / UAE authorities, with Isha a fixed interval after Maghrib. Switch the method to Umm al-Qura to sit closer to the printed UAE calendar.

Qibla from Dubai is 258.2° from true north (WSW), about 1,631 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 Sharjah (22 km), prayer times in Ajman (33 km), prayer times in Ras Al Khaimah (94 km), prayer times in Al Ain (121 km), prayer times in Abu Dhabi (123 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 Dubai timetable for August 2026. A year view lives at prayer times in Dubai for 2026. More cities in United Arab Emirates are listed on the United Arab Emirates 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 Dubai is typically accurate to one or two minutes on a clear horizon.