Prayer Times in Kathmandu — 2025

Today’s Islamic salah schedule for Kathmandu — Monday, 31 August 2026 — is Fajr at 04:21, Dhuhr at 12:04, Asr at 15:36, Maghrib at 18:27 and Isha at 19:42. Sunrise (Shuruq) is 05:42. Times are computed from the city’s coordinates, the Asia/Kathmandu timezone (UTC+5:45), the Muslim World League convention and Standard (single-shadow) Asr.

Kathmandu is listed under Bagmati in Nepal. The engine uses 27.7172 latitude and 85.3240 longitude with IANA zone Asia/Kathmandu. 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 urban area is on the order of 1.0 million people.

Kathmandu 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 05:42 and Maghrib is at 18:27. Dhuhr (12:04) tracks astronomical noon plus a small equation-of-time correction, which is why a printed table copied from another country will not match Kathmandu.

Calculation for Kathmandu starts from Muslim World League. Changing the method moves Fajr and Isha by several minutes; changing Asr madhhab moves only Asr. 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.

Kathmandu (Nepal) 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 Kathmandu is 271.7° from true north (W), about 4,628 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 Patna (237 km), prayer times in Lucknow (443 km), prayer times in Rajshahi (495 km), prayer times in Kolkata (649 km), prayer times in Dhaka (669 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 Kathmandu timetable for August 2026. A year view lives at prayer times in Kathmandu for 2026. More cities in Nepal are listed on the Nepal 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 Kathmandu is typically accurate to one or two minutes on a clear horizon.