Prayer Times in Istanbul — March 2027

Reading the March 2027 table

If you are in Istanbul today (Monday, 31 August 2026), the five daily prayers fall at 04:52 (Fajr), 13:04 (Dhuhr), 17:44 (Asr), 19:40 (Maghrib) and 21:10 (Isha). Times are computed from the city’s coordinates, the Europe/Istanbul timezone (UTC+3), the Muslim World League convention and Hanafi (double-shadow) Asr.

Coordinates for Istanbul: 41.0082, 28.9784. Time zone Europe/Istanbul (UTC+3) 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 15.8 million people.

For the latitude of Istanbul, day length changes clearly from winter to summer. In August 2026 sunrise is 06:30 and Maghrib is 19:40. Dhuhr (13:04) sits near local solar noon. That seasonal swing is the reason a UK timetable cannot be reused in Turkey, and why this page is calculated from Istanbul’s own coordinates rather than a national average.

Calculation for Istanbul starts from Muslim World League. 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.

Istanbul straddles Europe and Asia; this coordinate is on the European side near the historic peninsula. Diyanet tables used in Turkey are close to, but not identical with, MWL. Treat the Diyanet app as authoritative inside Turkey if you follow the state calendar.

Qibla from Istanbul is 151.6° from true north (SSE), about 2,405 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 Bursa (92 km), prayer times in Izmir (327 km), prayer times in Ankara (349 km), prayer times in Konya (461 km), prayer times in Antalya (481 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 Istanbul timetable for August 2026. A year view lives at prayer times in Istanbul for 2026. More cities in Turkey are listed on the Turkey 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 Istanbul is typically accurate to one or two minutes on a clear horizon.