Prayer Times in Edinburgh — 2025

If you are in Edinburgh today (Sunday, 30 August 2026), the five daily prayers fall at 03:44 (Fajr), 13:13 (Dhuhr), 16:59 (Asr), 20:13 (Maghrib) and 22:30 (Isha). Times are computed from the city’s coordinates, the Europe/London timezone (UTC+1 · BST), the Muslim World League convention and Standard (single-shadow) Asr.

Edinburgh sits in Scotland, United Kingdom, at 55.9533°, -3.1883°. 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 listed population is about 530,000 people.

At this latitude the northern summer night is short and the winter night is long. Fajr and Isha angles are not always reached in midsummer, so the timetable falls back to a night-portion rule (middle of the night by default). That is why Fajr in Edinburgh can look “late” in June and Isha “early” compared with cities closer to the equator. In August 2026 sunrise is 06:13 and Maghrib is 20:13 — a useful check of how compressed or stretched the day currently is.

Calculation for Edinburgh 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. UK mosques often follow the Muslim World League or a local board such as the London Central Mosque / HMC. A one-minute precaution is common in winter.

Muslims in Edinburgh 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 Edinburgh is 119.5° from true north (ESE), about 5,211 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 Glasgow (67 km), prayer times in Newcastle (147 km), prayer times in Belfast (230 km), prayer times in Preston (245 km), prayer times in Blackburn (249 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 Edinburgh timetable for August 2026. A year view lives at prayer times in Edinburgh for 2026. More cities in United Kingdom are listed on the United Kingdom 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 Edinburgh is typically accurate to one or two minutes on a clear horizon.