Prayer Times in Lagos — September 2028

Reading the September 2028 table

Prayer times in Lagos today (Monday, 31 August 2026): Fajr 05:29, Sunrise 06:40, Dhuhr 12:47, Asr 15:52, Maghrib 18:55, Isha 20:00. Times are computed from the city’s coordinates, the Africa/Lagos timezone (UTC+1 · WAT), the Muslim World League convention and Standard (single-shadow) Asr.

Coordinates for Lagos: 6.5244, 3.3792. Time zone Africa/Lagos (UTC+1 · WAT) already includes daylight saving when the zone observes it, so you do not add or subtract an hour by hand in August. The urban area is on the order of 14.0 million people.

Lagos 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 06:40 and Maghrib is at 18:55. Dhuhr (12:47) tracks astronomical noon plus a small equation-of-time correction, which is why a printed table copied from another country will not match Lagos.

The Muslim World League method is the starting point on this Lagos 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.

Lagos sits close to the equator, so seasonal change in prayer times is modest compared with Europe. Nigerian mosque boards may still print a rounded Maghrib; the figures here are to the minute from coordinates.

Qibla from Lagos is 63.3° from true north (ENE), about 4,252 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 Ibadan (114 km), prayer times in Abuja (526 km), prayer times in Kaduna (627 km), prayer times in Kano (835 km), prayer times in Maiduguri (1224 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 Lagos timetable for August 2026. A year view lives at prayer times in Lagos for 2026. More cities in Nigeria are listed on the Nigeria 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 Lagos is typically accurate to one or two minutes on a clear horizon.