Prayer Times in Urumqi — 2023

Prayer times in Urumqi today (Monday, 31 August 2026): Fajr 03:48, Sunrise 05:31, Dhuhr 12:10, Asr 15:53, Maghrib 18:49, Isha 20:24. Times are computed from the city’s coordinates, the Asia/Urumqi timezone (UTC+6), the Muslim World League convention and Standard (single-shadow) Asr.

Urumqi is listed under Xinjiang in China. The engine uses 43.8256 latitude and 87.6168 longitude with IANA zone Asia/Urumqi. 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 3.5 million people.

For the latitude of Urumqi, day length changes clearly from winter to summer. In August 2026 sunrise is 05:31 and Maghrib is 18:49. Dhuhr (12:10) 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 Urumqi’s own coordinates rather than a national average.

The Muslim World League method is the starting point on this Urumqi 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.

Urumqi (China) 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 Urumqi is 256.2° from true north (WSW), about 5,031 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 Kashgar (1079 km), prayer times in Beijing (2411 km), prayer times in Shanghai (3268 km), prayer times in Guangzhou (3284 km), prayer times in Hong Kong (3412 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 Urumqi timetable for August 2026. A year view lives at prayer times in Urumqi 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 Urumqi is typically accurate to one or two minutes on a clear horizon.