Kuala Lumpur Prayer Times

Prayer Times in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Kuala Lumpurprayer times are calculated based on the city's precise geographic coordinates (3.1390°N, 101.6869°E) using the JAKIM calculation method — the standard followed by most mosques in Malaysia. 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 Kuala Lumpur'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 Kuala Lumpur prayer time calendar for the full month is shown below — so you can plan ahead without checking daily.

How Kuala Lumpur's prayer times are worked out

Kuala Lumpur sits 6,974 km (4,333 miles) from the Kaaba in Mecca, so the Qibla from here is 293° from true north — you face northwest to pray. Fajr and Isha depend on how far the sun drops below the horizon, and Malaysia 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 Kuala Lumpur. Measured with the JAKIM method, the longest daily fast here — from Fajr to Maghrib — runs about 13h 43m around June, while the shortest is roughly 13h 20m in December: a swing of 0h 23m across the year. That spread is set by Kuala Lumpur's latitude (3.14°N); cities nearer the equator barely vary, while far-northern ones swing by many hours.

One local quirk worth knowing: Dhuhr in Kuala Lumpur does not fall at 12:00. Because the city sits well west within its Asia/Kuala Lumpur time zone, the sun peaks about 82 minutes after clock noon, and Dhuhr follows the sun rather than the clock — today it is at 1:20 PM. The nearest cities we also publish times for are Bukit Bintang, Titiwangsa, Sentul — close enough that their times differ from Kuala Lumpur's by only a few minutes.