Prayer Times in Sydney — 2024

Accurate prayer times for Sydney on Monday, 31 August 2026: Fajr 04:52, Shuruq 06:15, Dhuhr 11:56, Asr 15:09, Maghrib 17:37, Isha 18:55. Times are computed from the city’s coordinates, the Australia/Sydney timezone (UTC+10 · AEST), the Muslim World League convention and Standard (single-shadow) Asr.

Sydney is listed under New South Wales in Australia. The engine uses -33.8688 latitude and 151.2093 longitude with IANA zone Australia/Sydney. 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 5.3 million people.

For the latitude of Sydney, day length changes clearly from winter to summer. In August 2026 sunrise is 06:15 and Maghrib is 17:37. Dhuhr (11:56) sits near local solar noon. That seasonal swing is the reason a UK timetable cannot be reused in Australia, and why this page is calculated from Sydney’s own coordinates rather than a national average.

The Muslim World League method is the starting point on this Sydney 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. If a local mosque publishes a different Fajr or Isha angle, pick that method in the selector or apply a minute offset.

Sydney’s Muslim communities (Lakemba, Auburn, Bankstown) typically follow AFIC / local mosque boards. Because Australia is in the southern hemisphere, the longest days fall in December — the opposite of a northern-hemisphere intuition.

Qibla from Sydney is 277.5° from true north (W), about 13,236 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 Canberra (247 km), prayer times in Gold Coast (683 km), prayer times in Melbourne (713 km), prayer times in Brisbane (732 km), prayer times in Hobart (1057 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 Sydney timetable for August 2026. A year view lives at prayer times in Sydney for 2026. More cities in Australia are listed on the Australia 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 Sydney is typically accurate to one or two minutes on a clear horizon.