Prayer Times in Ottawa — December 2028

Reading the December 2028 table

Prayer times in Ottawa today (Sunday, 30 August 2026): Fajr 04:55, Sunrise 06:22, Dhuhr 13:03, Asr 16:47, Maghrib 19:45, Isha 21:11. Times are computed from the city’s coordinates, the America/Toronto timezone (UTC−4 · EDT), the Islamic Society of North America convention and Standard (single-shadow) Asr.

Coordinates for Ottawa: 45.4215, -75.6972. Time zone America/Toronto (UTC−4 · EDT) 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 1.0 million people.

For the latitude of Ottawa, day length changes clearly from winter to summer. In August 2026 sunrise is 06:22 and Maghrib is 19:45. Dhuhr (13:03) sits near local solar noon. That seasonal swing is the reason a UK timetable cannot be reused in Canada, and why this page is calculated from Ottawa’s own coordinates rather than a national average.

The Islamic Society of North America method is the starting point on this Ottawa 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. Many North American Islamic centres follow ISNA (15°/15°). If your masjid prints later Fajr than this page, switch the method to ISNA.

Travellers through Ottawa 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 Ottawa is 57.2° from true north (ENE), about 10,144 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 Montreal (166 km), prayer times in Markham (336 km), prayer times in Toronto (352 km), prayer times in Mississauga (373 km), prayer times in Brampton (373 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 Ottawa timetable for August 2026. A year view lives at prayer times in Ottawa for 2026. More cities in Canada are listed on the Canada 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 Ottawa is typically accurate to one or two minutes on a clear horizon.