Prayer Times in Kuching — 2024

If you are in Kuching today (Monday, 31 August 2026), the five daily prayers fall at 05:25 (Fajr), 12:39 (Dhuhr), 15:51 (Asr), 18:44 (Maghrib) and 19:49 (Isha). Times are computed from the city’s coordinates, the Asia/Kuching timezone (UTC+8), the Muslim World League convention and Standard (single-shadow) Asr.

Kuching sits in Sarawak, Malaysia, at 1.5533°, 110.3592°. 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 listed population is about 600,000 people.

Kuching 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 06:35 and Maghrib is at 18:44. Dhuhr (12:39) tracks astronomical noon plus a small equation-of-time correction, which is why a printed table copied from another country will not match Kuching.

Calculation for Kuching 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.

Muslims in Kuching 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 Kuching is 292.1° from true north (WNW), about 7,932 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 Johor Bahru (736 km), prayer times in Kota Kinabalu (803 km), prayer times in Kuala Lumpur (979 km), prayer times in Shah Alam (997 km), prayer times in Ipoh (1083 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 Kuching timetable for August 2026. A year view lives at prayer times in Kuching 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 Kuching is typically accurate to one or two minutes on a clear horizon.