Prayer Times in Durban — 2028

Prayer times in Durban today (Monday, 31 August 2026): Fajr 04:53, Sunrise 06:12, Dhuhr 11:56, Asr 15:13, Maghrib 17:41, Isha 18:55. Times are computed from the city’s coordinates, the Africa/Johannesburg timezone (UTC+2 · SAST), the Muslim World League convention and Standard (single-shadow) Asr.

Coordinates for Durban: -29.8587, 31.0218. Time zone Africa/Johannesburg (UTC+2 · SAST) 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 3.7 million people.

Durban 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 06:12 and Maghrib is at 17:41. Dhuhr (11:56) tracks astronomical noon plus a small equation-of-time correction, which is why a printed table copied from another country will not match Durban.

The Muslim World League method is the starting point on this Durban 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.

Travellers through Durban 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 Durban is 10.4° from true north (N), about 5,780 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 Johannesburg (500 km), prayer times in Pretoria (533 km), prayer times in Cape Town (1271 km), prayer times in Dodoma (2681 km), prayer times in Dar es Salaam (2704 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 Durban timetable for August 2026. A year view lives at prayer times in Durban for 2026. More cities in South Africa are listed on the South Africa 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 Durban is typically accurate to one or two minutes on a clear horizon.