Prayer Times in Semarang — January 2027

Reading the January 2027 table

If you are in Semarang today (Monday, 31 August 2026), the five daily prayers fall at 04:30 (Fajr), 11:39 (Dhuhr), 14:58 (Asr), 17:39 (Maghrib) and 18:44 (Isha). Times are computed from the city’s coordinates, the Asia/Jakarta timezone (UTC+7 · WIB), the Muslim World League convention and Standard (single-shadow) Asr.

Coordinates for Semarang: -6.9666, 110.4167. Time zone Asia/Jakarta (UTC+7 · WIB) 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 1.6 million people.

Semarang is close enough to the tropics that twilight angles are usually reached every night of the year. High-latitude patches are rarely needed. In August 2026 the sun rises at 05:40 and Maghrib is at 17:39. Dhuhr (11:39) tracks astronomical noon plus a small equation-of-time correction, which is why a printed table copied from another country will not match Semarang.

Calculation for Semarang 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.

Travellers through Semarang 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 Semarang is 294.5° from true north (WNW), about 8,314 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 Yogyakarta (92 km), prayer times in Surabaya (260 km), prayer times in Bandung (309 km), prayer times in Jakarta (403 km), prayer times in Denpasar (561 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 Semarang timetable for August 2026. A year view lives at prayer times in Semarang for 2026. More cities in Indonesia are listed on the Indonesia 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 Semarang is typically accurate to one or two minutes on a clear horizon.