Cairo Prayer Times

Prayer Times in Cairo, Egypt

Cairoprayer times are calculated based on the city's precise geographic coordinates (30.0444°N, 31.2357°E) using the Egyptian calculation method — the standard followed by most mosques in Egypt. 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 Cairo'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 Cairo prayer time calendar for the full month is shown below — so you can plan ahead without checking daily.

How Cairo's prayer times are worked out

Cairo sits 1,287 km (800 miles) from the Kaaba in Mecca, so the Qibla from here is 136° from true north — you face southeast to pray. Fajr and Isha depend on how far the sun drops below the horizon, and Egypt follows the Egyptian method set by the Egyptian General Authority of Survey: Fajr begins when the sun is 19.5° below the horizon, and Isha when it reaches 17.5°. 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 Cairo. Measured with the Egyptian method, the longest daily fast here — from Fajr to Maghrib — runs about 15h 51m around June, while the shortest is roughly 11h 45m in December: a swing of 4h 06m across the year. That spread is set by Cairo's latitude (30.04°N); cities nearer the equator barely vary, while far-northern ones swing by many hours.

Cairo sits close to the meridian of its Africa/Cairo time zone, so the sun peaks within 4 minutes of clock noon and Dhuhr lands near midday — today at 1:02 PM. Dhuhr always tracks the sun's peak, not the clock. The nearest cities we also publish times for are Būlāq Abū al ‘Ilā, Giza, Madīnat an Naşr — close enough that their times differ from Cairo's by only a few minutes.