Prayer Times in Kota Kinabalu — January 2026

Reading the January 2026 table

Accurate prayer times for Kota Kinabalu on Monday, 31 August 2026: Fajr 04:59, Shuruq 06:09, Dhuhr 12:16, Asr 15:23, Maghrib 18:24, Isha 19:29. Times are computed from the city’s coordinates, the Asia/Kuching timezone (UTC+8), the Muslim World League convention and Standard (single-shadow) Asr.

Kota Kinabalu is listed under Sabah in Malaysia. The engine uses 5.9804 latitude and 116.0735 longitude with IANA zone Asia/Kuching. 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 listed population is about 450,000 people.

Kota Kinabalu 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 06:09 and Maghrib is at 18:24. Dhuhr (12:16) tracks astronomical noon plus a small equation-of-time correction, which is why a printed table copied from another country will not match Kota Kinabalu.

The Muslim World League method is the starting point on this Kota Kinabalu page. Fajr and Isha are defined by solar depression angles (or, for Umm al-Qura, a Maghrib-plus-minutes rule). 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.

Kota Kinabalu (Malaysia) 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 Kota Kinabalu is 290.6° from true north (WNW), about 8,344 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 Kuching (803 km), prayer times in Johor Bahru (1456 km), prayer times in Kuala Lumpur (1625 km), prayer times in Shah Alam (1645 km), prayer times in Ipoh (1666 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 Kota Kinabalu timetable for August 2026. A year view lives at prayer times in Kota Kinabalu for 2026. More cities in Malaysia are listed on the Malaysia 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 Kota Kinabalu is typically accurate to one or two minutes on a clear horizon.