Prayer Times in Shanghai — 2023

If you are in Shanghai today (Monday, 31 August 2026), the five daily prayers fall at 04:05 (Fajr), 11:55 (Dhuhr), 15:30 (Asr), 18:20 (Maghrib) and 19:38 (Isha). Times are computed from the city’s coordinates, the Asia/Shanghai timezone (UTC+8 · CST), the Muslim World League convention and Standard (single-shadow) Asr.

Coordinates for Shanghai: 31.2304, 121.4737. Time zone Asia/Shanghai (UTC+8 · CST) 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 24.2 million people.

For the latitude of Shanghai, day length changes clearly from winter to summer. In August 2026 sunrise is 05:29 and Maghrib is 18:20. Dhuhr (11:55) sits near local solar noon. That seasonal swing is the reason a UK timetable cannot be reused in China, and why this page is calculated from Shanghai’s own coordinates rather than a national average.

Calculation for Shanghai 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 Shanghai 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 Shanghai is 284.7° from true north (WNW), about 8,033 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 Beijing (1067 km), prayer times in Guangzhou (1212 km), prayer times in Hong Kong (1227 km), prayer times in Urumqi (3268 km), prayer times in Kashgar (4180 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 Shanghai timetable for August 2026. A year view lives at prayer times in Shanghai for 2026. More cities in China are listed on the China 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 Shanghai is typically accurate to one or two minutes on a clear horizon.