Prayer Times in George Town — 2024

Prayer times in George Town today (Monday, 31 August 2026): Fajr 06:02, Sunrise 07:12, Dhuhr 13:19, Asr 16:26, Maghrib 19:27, Isha 20:32. Times are computed from the city’s coordinates, the Asia/Kuala_Lumpur timezone (UTC+8), the Muslim World League convention and Standard (single-shadow) Asr.

George Town is listed under Penang in Malaysia. The engine uses 5.4141 latitude and 100.3288 longitude with IANA zone Asia/Kuala_Lumpur. 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 700,000 people.

George Town 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 07:12 and Maghrib is at 19:27. Dhuhr (13:19) tracks astronomical noon plus a small equation-of-time correction, which is why a printed table copied from another country will not match George Town.

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

George Town (Malaysia) 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 George Town is 291.6° from true north (WNW), about 6,739 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 Ipoh (124 km), prayer times in Shah Alam (292 km), prayer times in Kuala Lumpur (294 km), prayer times in Johor Bahru (578 km), prayer times in Kuching (1193 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 George Town timetable for August 2026. A year view lives at prayer times in George Town for 2026. More cities in Malaysia are listed on the Malaysia 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 George Town is typically accurate to one or two minutes on a clear horizon.