Prayer Times in Kabul — 2026

Today’s Islamic salah schedule for Kabul — Monday, 31 August 2026 — is Fajr at 03:58, Dhuhr at 11:54, Asr at 16:31, Maghrib at 18:22 and Isha at 19:49. Sunrise (Shuruq) is 05:25. 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.

Kabul sits in Kabul, Afghanistan, at 34.5553°, 69.2075°. 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 urban area is on the order of 4.4 million people.

For the latitude of Kabul, day length changes clearly from winter to summer. In August 2026 sunrise is 05:25 and Maghrib is 18:22. Dhuhr (11:54) 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 Kabul’s own coordinates rather than a national average.

Calculation for Kabul 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.

Muslims in Kabul 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 Kabul is 250.8° from true north (WSW), about 3,217 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 Mazar-i-Sharif (305 km), prayer times in Kandahar (459 km), prayer times in Herat (642 km), prayer times in Peshawar (221 km), prayer times in Islamabad (367 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 Kabul timetable for August 2026. A year view lives at prayer times in Kabul 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 Kabul is typically accurate to one or two minutes on a clear horizon.