Prayer Times in Herat — 2025

Today’s Islamic salah schedule for Herat — Monday, 31 August 2026 — is Fajr at 04:26, Dhuhr at 12:22, Asr at 16:58, Maghrib at 18:50 and Isha at 20:16. Sunrise (Shuruq) is 05:54. Times are computed from the city’s coordinates, the Asia/Kabul timezone (UTC+4:30), the University of Islamic Sciences, Karachi convention and Hanafi (double-shadow) Asr.

Herat is listed under Herat in Afghanistan. The engine uses 34.3529 latitude and 62.2040 longitude with IANA zone Asia/Kabul. 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 570,000 people.

For the latitude of Herat, day length changes clearly from winter to summer. In August 2026 sunrise is 05:54 and Maghrib is 18:50. Dhuhr (12:22) sits near local solar noon. That seasonal swing is the reason a UK timetable cannot be reused in Afghanistan, and why this page is calculated from Herat’s own coordinates rather than a national average.

Calculation for Herat starts from University of Islamic Sciences, Karachi. Changing the method moves Fajr and Isha by several minutes; changing Asr madhhab moves only Asr. Asr is shown in the Hanafi manner (shadow factor 2), which is the usual printed convention in much of South and Central Asia. If a local mosque publishes a different Fajr or Isha angle, pick that method in the selector or apply a minute offset.

Herat (Afghanistan) 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 Herat is 242.5° from true north (WSW), about 2,618 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 Kandahar (448 km), prayer times in Mazar-i-Sharif (515 km), prayer times in Kabul (642 km), prayer times in Mashhad (316 km), prayer times in Ashgabat (531 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 Herat timetable for August 2026. A year view lives at prayer times in Herat for 2026. More cities in Afghanistan are listed on the Afghanistan 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 Herat is typically accurate to one or two minutes on a clear horizon.