Prayer Times in Manchester — January 2026

Reading the January 2026 table

Accurate prayer times for Manchester on Sunday, 30 August 2026: Fajr 03:59, Shuruq 06:15, Dhuhr 13:10, Asr 16:55, Maghrib 20:05, Isha 22:09. Times are computed from the city’s coordinates, the Europe/London timezone (UTC+1 · BST), the Muslim World League convention and Standard (single-shadow) Asr.

Coordinates for Manchester: 53.4808, -2.2426. Time zone Europe/London (UTC+1 · BST) already includes daylight saving when the zone observes it, so you do not add or subtract an hour by hand in August. The listed population is about 550,000 people.

For the latitude of Manchester, day length changes clearly from winter to summer. In August 2026 sunrise is 06:15 and Maghrib is 20:05. Dhuhr (13:10) sits near local solar noon. That seasonal swing is the reason a UK timetable cannot be reused in United Kingdom, and why this page is calculated from Manchester’s own coordinates rather than a national average.

The Muslim World League method is the starting point on this Manchester 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. UK mosques often follow the Muslim World League or a local board such as the London Central Mosque / HMC. A one-minute precaution is common in winter.

Manchester and the surrounding mill towns (Oldham, Rochdale, Bolton) have some of the densest Muslim neighbourhoods in England. Central mosque timetables are often based on MWL with a small winter precaution.

Qibla from Manchester is 118.5° from true north (ESE), about 5,025 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 Oldham (11 km), prayer times in Rochdale (15 km), prayer times in Bolton (16 km), prayer times in Blackburn (34 km), prayer times in Preston (44 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 Manchester timetable for August 2026. A year view lives at prayer times in Manchester for 2026. More cities in United Kingdom are listed on the United Kingdom 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 Manchester is typically accurate to one or two minutes on a clear horizon.