Prayer Times in Lucknow — 2028

If you are in Lucknow today (Monday, 31 August 2026), the five daily prayers fall at 04:25 (Fajr), 12:07 (Dhuhr), 16:40 (Asr), 18:29 (Maghrib) and 19:47 (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.

Lucknow is listed under Uttar Pradesh in India. The engine uses 26.8467 latitude and 80.9462 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 2.8 million people.

Lucknow 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 05:45 and Maghrib is at 18:29. Dhuhr (12:07) tracks astronomical noon plus a small equation-of-time correction, which is why a printed table copied from another country will not match Lucknow.

Calculation for Lucknow 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.

Lucknow (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 Lucknow is 270.9° from true north (W), about 4,198 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 Delhi (431 km), prayer times in Patna (441 km), prayer times in Jaipur (512 km), prayer times in Bhopal (535 km), prayer times in Kolkata (887 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 Lucknow timetable for August 2026. A year view lives at prayer times in Lucknow 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 Lucknow is typically accurate to one or two minutes on a clear horizon.