Prayer Times in Makhachkala — 2026

If you are in Makhachkala today (Monday, 31 August 2026), the five daily prayers fall at 03:32 (Fajr), 11:50 (Dhuhr), 15:33 (Asr), 18:28 (Maghrib) and 20:02 (Isha). Times are computed from the city’s coordinates, the Europe/Moscow timezone (UTC+3 · MSK), the Muslim World League convention and Standard (single-shadow) Asr.

Makhachkala sits in Dagestan, Russia, at 42.9849°, 47.5047°. 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.

For the latitude of Makhachkala, day length changes clearly from winter to summer. In August 2026 sunrise is 05:13 and Maghrib is 18:28. Dhuhr (11:50) sits near local solar noon. That seasonal swing is the reason a UK timetable cannot be reused in Russia, and why this page is calculated from Makhachkala’s own coordinates rather than a national average.

Calculation for Makhachkala 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 Makhachkala 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 Makhachkala is 199.0° from true north (SSW), about 2,501 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 Grozny (151 km), prayer times in Kazan (1433 km), prayer times in Ufa (1444 km), prayer times in Moscow (1587 km), prayer times in Saint Petersburg (2214 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 Makhachkala timetable for August 2026. A year view lives at prayer times in Makhachkala for 2026. More cities in Russia are listed on the Russia 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 Makhachkala is typically accurate to one or two minutes on a clear horizon.