Prayer Times in Plovdiv — January 2024

Reading the January 2024 table

If you are in Plovdiv today (Monday, 31 August 2026), the five daily prayers fall at 05:05 (Fajr), 13:21 (Dhuhr), 17:03 (Asr), 19:58 (Maghrib) and 21:30 (Isha). Times are computed from the city’s coordinates, the Europe/Sofia timezone (UTC+3 · EEST), the Muslim World League convention and Standard (single-shadow) Asr.

Plovdiv sits in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, at 42.1354°, 24.7453°. 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 340,000 people.

For the latitude of Plovdiv, day length changes clearly from winter to summer. In August 2026 sunrise is 06:45 and Maghrib is 19:58. Dhuhr (13:21) sits near local solar noon. That seasonal swing is the reason a UK timetable cannot be reused in Bulgaria, and why this page is calculated from Plovdiv’s own coordinates rather than a national average.

Calculation for Plovdiv starts from Muslim World League. Changing the method moves Fajr and Isha by several minutes; changing Asr madhhab moves only Asr. 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 Plovdiv 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 Plovdiv is 143.9° from true north (SE), about 2,699 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 Sofia (133 km), prayer times in Thessaloniki (224 km), prayer times in Skopje (274 km), prayer times in Bucharest (277 km), prayer times in Pristina (300 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 Plovdiv timetable for August 2026. A year view lives at prayer times in Plovdiv for 2026. More cities in Bulgaria are listed on the Bulgaria 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 Plovdiv is typically accurate to one or two minutes on a clear horizon.