Khōst Prayer Times

Prayer Times in Khōst, Afghanistan

Khōstprayer times are calculated based on the city's precise geographic coordinates (33.3395°N, 69.9204°E) using the Karachi calculation method — the standard followed by most mosques in Afghanistan. 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 Khōst'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 Khōst prayer time calendar for the full month is shown below — so you can plan ahead without checking daily.

How Khōst's prayer times are worked out

Khōst sits 3,238 km (2,012 miles) from the Kaaba in Mecca, so the Qibla from here is 254° from true north — you face west to pray. Fajr and Isha depend on how far the sun drops below the horizon, and Afghanistan 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 Khōst. Measured with the Karachi method, the longest daily fast here — from Fajr to Maghrib — runs about 16h 05m around June, while the shortest is roughly 11h 26m in December: a swing of 4h 39m across the year. That spread is set by Khōst's latitude (33.34°N); cities nearer the equator barely vary, while far-northern ones swing by many hours.

Khōst sits close to the meridian of its Asia/Kabul time zone, so the sun peaks within 1 minutes of clock noon and Dhuhr lands near midday — today at 11:58 AM. Dhuhr always tracks the sun's peak, not the clock. The nearest cities we also publish times for are Gardez, Bannu, Jalālābād — close enough that their times differ from Khōst's by only a few minutes.