Prayer Times in Madinah — January 2027

Reading the January 2027 table

Accurate prayer times for Madinah on Monday, 31 August 2026: Fajr 04:42, Shuruq 06:03, Dhuhr 12:22, Asr 15:51, Maghrib 18:42, Isha 20:12. Times are computed from the city’s coordinates, the Asia/Riyadh timezone (UTC+3), the Umm al-Qura University, Makkah convention and Standard (single-shadow) Asr.

Coordinates for Madinah: 24.5247, 39.5692. Time zone Asia/Riyadh (UTC+3) 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 1.4 million people.

Madinah 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 06:03 and Maghrib is at 18:42. Dhuhr (12:22) tracks astronomical noon plus a small equation-of-time correction, which is why a printed table copied from another country will not match Madinah.

The Umm al-Qura University, Makkah method is the starting point on this Madinah 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. Official Gulf tables generally follow Umm al-Qura, with Isha a fixed interval after Maghrib rather than a twilight angle.

Madinah uses the same Saudi civil-religious convention as Makkah. Isha is typically 90 minutes after Maghrib (longer in Ramadan on official Saudi tables).

Qibla from Madinah is 175.6° from true north (S), about 346 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 Jeddah (334 km), prayer times in Makkah (346 km), prayer times in Taif (372 km), prayer times in Riyadh (719 km), prayer times in Abha (764 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 Madinah timetable for August 2026. A year view lives at prayer times in Madinah for 2026. More cities in Saudi Arabia are listed on the Saudi Arabia 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 Madinah is typically accurate to one or two minutes on a clear horizon.