Prayer Times in Mazar-i-Sharif — 2024

Accurate prayer times for Mazar-i-Sharif on Monday, 31 August 2026: Fajr 04:01, Shuruq 05:32, Dhuhr 12:02, Asr 16:40, Maghrib 18:33, Isha 20:02. Times are computed from the city’s coordinates, the Asia/Kabul timezone (UTC+4:30), the University of Islamic Sciences, Karachi convention and Hanafi (double-shadow) Asr.

Coordinates for Mazar-i-Sharif: 36.7069, 67.1109. Time zone Asia/Kabul (UTC+4:30) 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 500,000 people.

For the latitude of Mazar-i-Sharif, day length changes clearly from winter to summer. In August 2026 sunrise is 05:32 and Maghrib is 18:33. Dhuhr (12:02) sits near local solar noon. That seasonal swing is the reason a UK timetable cannot be reused in Afghanistan, and why this page is calculated from Mazar-i-Sharif’s own coordinates rather than a national average.

The University of Islamic Sciences, Karachi method is the starting point on this Mazar-i-Sharif page. Fajr and Isha are defined by solar depression angles (or, for Umm al-Qura, a Maghrib-plus-minutes rule). Asr is shown in the Hanafi manner (shadow factor 2), which is the usual printed convention in much of South and Central Asia. If a local mosque publishes a different Fajr or Isha angle, pick that method in the selector or apply a minute offset.

Travellers through Mazar-i-Sharif 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 Mazar-i-Sharif is 244.7° from true north (WSW), about 3,132 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 Kabul (305 km), prayer times in Herat (515 km), prayer times in Kandahar (579 km), prayer times in Dushanbe (253 km), prayer times in Samarkand (325 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 Mazar-i-Sharif timetable for August 2026. A year view lives at prayer times in Mazar-i-Sharif for 2026. More cities in Afghanistan are listed on the Afghanistan 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 Mazar-i-Sharif is typically accurate to one or two minutes on a clear horizon.