Prayer Times in Rawalpindi — May 2025

Reading the May 2025 table

Accurate prayer times for Rawalpindi on Monday, 31 August 2026: Fajr 04:14, Shuruq 05:41, Dhuhr 12:08, Asr 16:45, Maghrib 18:36, Isha 20:01. Times are computed from the city’s coordinates, the Asia/Karachi timezone (UTC+5 · PKT), the University of Islamic Sciences, Karachi convention and Hanafi (double-shadow) Asr.

Rawalpindi is listed under Punjab in Pakistan. The engine uses 33.5651 latitude and 73.0169 longitude with IANA zone Asia/Karachi. A mosque a few kilometres away will usually match these times to the minute; a different city, even in the same metro area, can drift by two to five minutes because longitude shifts solar noon. The urban area is on the order of 2.1 million people.

For the latitude of Rawalpindi, day length changes clearly from winter to summer. In August 2026 sunrise is 05:41 and Maghrib is 18:36. Dhuhr (12:08) sits near local solar noon. That seasonal swing is the reason a UK timetable cannot be reused in Pakistan, and why this page is calculated from Rawalpindi’s own coordinates rather than a national average.

The University of Islamic Sciences, Karachi method is the starting point on this Rawalpindi 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. Subcontinental pocket calendars almost always use Karachi angles with Hanafi Asr. Confirm against the local mosque in Ramadan, when some boards add a precaution.

Rawalpindi (Pakistan) has both long-established and newer Muslim communities. Jumu'ah times are set by each mosque and are not computed here — only the five daily prayers and sunrise.

Qibla from Rawalpindi is 256.1° from true north (WSW), about 3,522 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 Islamabad (14 km), prayer times in Peshawar (147 km), prayer times in Sialkot (184 km), prayer times in Gujranwala (189 km), prayer times in Faisalabad (235 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 Rawalpindi timetable for August 2026. A year view lives at prayer times in Rawalpindi for 2026. More cities in Pakistan are listed on the Pakistan 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 Rawalpindi is typically accurate to one or two minutes on a clear horizon.