Kota Kinabalu Prayer Times

Prayer Times in Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia

Prayer times in Kota Kinabalu are worked out each day from the city's coordinates (5.97°N). We use the JAKIM method, the one followed across Malaysia. The five times shift by a minute or two each day as the sun moves. The full month is listed below.

Kota Kinabalu's times use the JAKIM method. That is the standard followed by most mosques in Malaysia. They are drawn from Kota Kinabalu's own coordinates (5.9749°N, 116.0724°E). The schedule updates automatically at midnight, with no manual setting.

How Kota Kinabalu's prayer times are worked out

From Kota Kinabalu, the Qibla is 291° from true north. Face west to pray toward the Kaaba. It lies 8,344 km (5,185 miles) away in a straight line across the globe. Every time on this page is worked out from Kota Kinabalu's own coordinates (5.97°N, 116.07°E), not a national average. That is why Kota Kinabalu's times and its Qibla differ a little from cities a short distance away.

Kota Kinabalu sits just 5.97°N of the equator. Its prayer calendar barely shifts across the year. With the JAKIM method, the longest daily fast is about 13h 54m. The shortest is about 13h 10m. That is a swing of only 0h 44m between June and December. Whenever Ramadan falls, fasting hours here stay much the same — something cities farther from the equator never see.

The Fajr and Isha angles for Kota Kinabalu come from JAKIM, Malaysia's federal Islamic authority. The JAKIM method sets Fajr when the sun is 20° below the horizon, and Isha at 18°. Use ISNA's 15° instead and Fajr here would move by several minutes. So the method — not the coordinates alone — settles the final time. We also publish times for nearby Putatan, Donggongon and Keningau. Each is only a few minutes off Kota Kinabalu's clock.

Nearby: Putatan prayer times · Donggongon prayer times · Keningau prayer times · Bandar Labuan prayer times · Labuan prayer times

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Mosques in Kota Kinabalu

Mosques in and around Kota Kinabalu include Masjid Negeri Sabah, Masjid Taman Keramat, Surau, Masjid An-Nur, Masjid Nurul Hikmah and Kota Kinabalu City Mosque. The times on this page are worked out from Kota Kinabalu's own coordinates, and they apply across these mosques. Check the exact iqama time with your local mosque. That is the congregation, called a few minutes after each prayer starts.