Prayer Times in Najaf — 2026

Accurate prayer times for Najaf on Monday, 31 August 2026: Fajr 04:23, Shuruq 05:37, Dhuhr 12:03, Asr 15:39, Maghrib 18:44, Isha 19:33. Times are computed from the city’s coordinates, the Asia/Baghdad timezone (UTC+3), the Shia Ithna-Ashari (Qum) convention and Standard (single-shadow) Asr.

Najaf sits in Najaf, Iraq, at 32.0000°, 44.3300°. 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 900,000 people.

For the latitude of Najaf, day length changes clearly from winter to summer. In August 2026 sunrise is 05:37 and Maghrib is 18:44. Dhuhr (12:03) sits near local solar noon. That seasonal swing is the reason a UK timetable cannot be reused in Iraq, and why this page is calculated from Najaf’s own coordinates rather than a national average.

The Shia Ithna-Ashari (Qum) method is the starting point on this Najaf 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.

Muslims in Najaf 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 Najaf is 201.9° from true north (SSW), about 1,258 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 Karbala (74 km), prayer times in Baghdad (146 km), prayer times in Basra (368 km), prayer times in Erbil (467 km), prayer times in Mosul (495 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 Najaf timetable for August 2026. A year view lives at prayer times in Najaf for 2026. More cities in Iraq are listed on the Iraq 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 Najaf is typically accurate to one or two minutes on a clear horizon.