Jalpāiguri Prayer Times

Prayer Times in Jalpāiguri, India

Jalpāiguriprayer times are calculated based on the city's precise geographic coordinates (26.5167°N, 88.7333°E) using the Karachi calculation method — the standard followed by most mosques in India. 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 Jalpāiguri'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 Jalpāiguri prayer time calendar for the full month is shown below — so you can plan ahead without checking daily.

How Jalpāiguri's prayer times are worked out

Jalpāiguri sits 4,972 km (3,090 miles) from the Kaaba in Mecca, so the Qibla from here is 274° from true north — you face west to pray. Fajr and Isha depend on how far the sun drops below the horizon, and India follows the Karachi method set by the University of Islamic Sciences, Karachi: Fajr begins when the sun is 18° 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 Jalpāiguri. Measured with the Karachi method, the longest daily fast here — from Fajr to Maghrib — runs about 15h 20m around June, while the shortest is roughly 11h 51m in December: a swing of 3h 29m across the year. That spread is set by Jalpāiguri's latitude (26.52°N); cities nearer the equator barely vary, while far-northern ones swing by many hours.

One local quirk worth knowing: Dhuhr in Jalpāiguri does not fall at 12:00. Because the city sits well east within its Asia/Kolkata time zone, the sun peaks about 16 minutes before clock noon, and Dhuhr follows the sun rather than the clock — today it is at 11:42 AM. The nearest cities we also publish times for are Goyerkāta, Siliguri, Naksalbāri — close enough that their times differ from Jalpāiguri's by only a few minutes.