Prayer Times in Erbil — 2026

Prayer times in Erbil today (Monday, 31 August 2026): Fajr 04:16, Sunrise 05:35, Dhuhr 12:04, Asr 15:43, Maghrib 18:50, Isha 19:42. Times are computed from the city’s coordinates, the Asia/Baghdad timezone (UTC+3), the Shia Ithna-Ashari (Qum) convention and Standard (single-shadow) Asr.

Erbil is listed under Kurdistan in Iraq. The engine uses 36.1911 latitude and 44.0092 longitude with IANA zone Asia/Baghdad. 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 listed population is about 900,000 people.

For the latitude of Erbil, day length changes clearly from winter to summer. In August 2026 sunrise is 05:35 and Maghrib is 18:50. Dhuhr (12:04) sits near local solar noon. That seasonal swing is the reason a UK timetable cannot be reused in Iraq, and why this page is calculated from Erbil’s own coordinates rather than a national average.

The Shia Ithna-Ashari (Qum) method is the starting point on this Erbil 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.

Erbil (Iraq) 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 Erbil is 195.0° from true north (SSW), about 1,692 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 Mosul (81 km), prayer times in Baghdad (321 km), prayer times in Karbala (398 km), prayer times in Najaf (467 km), prayer times in Basra (722 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 Erbil timetable for August 2026. A year view lives at prayer times in Erbil for 2026. More cities in Iraq are listed on the Iraq 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 Erbil is typically accurate to one or two minutes on a clear horizon.