Prayer Times in Mashhad — 2025

Prayer times in Mashhad today (Monday, 31 August 2026): Fajr 03:34, Sunrise 05:02, Dhuhr 11:32, Asr 15:11, Maghrib 18:20, Isha 19:09. Times are computed from the city’s coordinates, the Asia/Tehran timezone (UTC+3:30), the Institute of Geophysics, University of Tehran convention and Standard (single-shadow) Asr.

Coordinates for Mashhad: 36.2605, 59.6168. Time zone Asia/Tehran (UTC+3:30) 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 3.0 million people.

For the latitude of Mashhad, day length changes clearly from winter to summer. In August 2026 sunrise is 05:02 and Maghrib is 18:20. Dhuhr (11:32) sits near local solar noon. That seasonal swing is the reason a UK timetable cannot be reused in Iran, and why this page is calculated from Mashhad’s own coordinates rather than a national average.

The Institute of Geophysics, University of Tehran method is the starting point on this Mashhad 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.

Travellers through Mashhad should remember that airport and hotel clocks follow civil time, which this timetable already uses. Maghrib is tied to sunset at the city’s coordinates, not to the time a flight lands.

Qibla from Mashhad is 234.7° from true north (SW), about 2,528 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 Tehran (743 km), prayer times in Qom (812 km), prayer times in Isfahan (831 km), prayer times in Shiraz (990 km), prayer times in Tabriz (1199 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 Mashhad timetable for August 2026. A year view lives at prayer times in Mashhad for 2026. More cities in Iran are listed on the Iran 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 Mashhad is typically accurate to one or two minutes on a clear horizon.