Prayer Times in Wellington — 2024

Accurate prayer times for Wellington on Monday, 31 August 2026: Fajr 05:16, Shuruq 06:48, Dhuhr 12:21, Asr 15:26, Maghrib 17:56, Isha 19:22. Times are computed from the city’s coordinates, the Pacific/Auckland timezone (UTC+12 · NZST), the Muslim World League convention and Standard (single-shadow) Asr.

Wellington is listed under Wellington in New Zealand. The engine uses -41.2865 latitude and 174.7762 longitude with IANA zone Pacific/Auckland. 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 listed population is about 210,000 people.

For the latitude of Wellington, day length changes clearly from winter to summer. In August 2026 sunrise is 06:48 and Maghrib is 17:56. Dhuhr (12:21) sits near local solar noon. That seasonal swing is the reason a UK timetable cannot be reused in New Zealand, and why this page is calculated from Wellington’s own coordinates rather than a national average.

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

Wellington (New Zealand) 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 Wellington is 256.4° from true north (WSW), about 15,270 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 Christchurch (305 km), prayer times in Auckland (493 km), prayer times in Sydney (2226 km), prayer times in Hobart (2262 km), prayer times in Canberra (2326 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 Wellington timetable for August 2026. A year view lives at prayer times in Wellington for 2026. More cities in New Zealand are listed on the New Zealand 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 Wellington is typically accurate to one or two minutes on a clear horizon.