Bandar Seri Begawan Prayer Times

Prayer Times in Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei

Bandar Seri Begawanprayer times are calculated based on the city's precise geographic coordinates (4.8903°N, 114.9401°E) using the JAKIM calculation method — the standard followed by most mosques in Brunei. Times shown are for today's date and update automatically at midnight.

The five daily prayers — Fajr, Dhuhr, Asr, Maghrib, and Isha — are calculated from the sun's position relative to Bandar Seri Begawan's latitude and longitude. As the sun's declination changes throughout the year, prayer times shift by several minutes each day. This is why a Bandar Seri Begawan prayer time calendar for the full month is shown below — so you can plan ahead without checking daily.

How Bandar Seri Begawan's prayer times are worked out

Bandar Seri Begawan sits 8,270 km (5,139 miles) from the Kaaba in Mecca, so the Qibla from here is 291° from true north — you face west to pray. Fajr and Isha depend on how far the sun drops below the horizon, and Brunei follows the JAKIM method set by JAKIM, Malaysia's federal Islamic authority: Fajr begins when the sun is 20° below the horizon, and Isha when it reaches 18°. A city that used ISNA's 15° instead would get a noticeably different Fajr — which is why the method, not just the coordinates, decides the answer.

Day length is what really moves the timetable in Bandar Seri Begawan. Measured with the JAKIM method, the longest daily fast here — from Fajr to Maghrib — runs about 13h 49m around June, while the shortest is roughly 13h 14m in December: a swing of 0h 35m across the year. That spread is set by Bandar Seri Begawan's latitude (4.89°N); cities nearer the equator barely vary, while far-northern ones swing by many hours.

One local quirk worth knowing: Dhuhr in Bandar Seri Begawan does not fall at 12:00. Because the city sits well west within its Asia/Brunei time zone, the sun peaks about 29 minutes after clock noon, and Dhuhr follows the sun rather than the clock — today it is at 12:27 PM. The nearest cities we also publish times for are Labuan, Bandar Labuan, Marudi — close enough that their times differ from Bandar Seri Begawan's by only a few minutes.