Prayer Times in Kolkata — 2027

If you are in Kolkata today (Monday, 31 August 2026), the five daily prayers fall at 04:02 (Fajr), 11:37 (Dhuhr), 16:07 (Asr), 17:56 (Maghrib) and 19:11 (Isha). 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.

Kolkata is listed under West Bengal in India. The engine uses 22.5726 latitude and 88.3639 longitude with IANA zone Asia/Kolkata. 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 4.5 million people.

Kolkata 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 05:19 and Maghrib is at 17:56. Dhuhr (11:37) tracks astronomical noon plus a small equation-of-time correction, which is why a printed table copied from another country will not match Kolkata.

Calculation for Kolkata 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. Subcontinental pocket calendars almost always use Karachi angles with Hanafi Asr. Confirm against the local mosque in Ramadan, when some boards add a precaution.

Kolkata (India) 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 Kolkata is 278.2° from true north (W), about 4,983 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 (469 km), prayer times in Lucknow (887 km), prayer times in Bhopal (1124 km), prayer times in Hyderabad (1182 km), prayer times in Delhi (1318 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 Kolkata timetable for August 2026. A year view lives at prayer times in Kolkata 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 Kolkata is typically accurate to one or two minutes on a clear horizon.