Prayer Times in Kochi — 2027

Accurate prayer times for Kochi on Monday, 31 August 2026: Fajr 05:05, Shuruq 06:16, Dhuhr 12:25, Asr 16:44, Maghrib 18:36, Isha 19:46. Times are computed from the city’s coordinates, the Asia/Kolkata timezone (UTC+5:30 · IST), the University of Islamic Sciences, Karachi convention and Hanafi (double-shadow) Asr.

Coordinates for Kochi: 9.9312, 76.2673. Time zone Asia/Kolkata (UTC+5:30 · IST) already includes daylight saving when the zone observes it, so you do not add or subtract an hour by hand in August. The listed population is about 600,000 people.

Kochi 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 06:16 and Maghrib is at 18:36. Dhuhr (12:25) tracks astronomical noon plus a small equation-of-time correction, which is why a printed table copied from another country will not match Kochi.

The University of Islamic Sciences, Karachi method is the starting point on this Kochi page. Fajr and Isha are defined by solar depression angles (or, for Umm al-Qura, a Maghrib-plus-minutes rule). Asr is shown in the Hanafi manner (shadow factor 2), which is the usual printed convention in much of South and Central Asia. Subcontinental pocket calendars almost always use Karachi angles with Hanafi Asr. Confirm against the local mosque in Ramadan, when some boards add a precaution.

Travellers through Kochi should remember that airport and hotel clocks follow civil time, which this timetable already uses. Maghrib is tied to sunset at the city’s coordinates, not to the time a flight lands.

Qibla from Kochi is 292.6° from true north (WNW), about 4,093 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 Kozhikode (157 km), prayer times in Bengaluru (368 km), prayer times in Chennai (559 km), prayer times in Hyderabad (863 km), prayer times in Pune (990 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 Kochi timetable for August 2026. A year view lives at prayer times in Kochi for 2026. More cities in India are listed on the India 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 Kochi is typically accurate to one or two minutes on a clear horizon.