Kuching Prayer Times

Prayer Times in Kuching, Malaysia

Prayer times in Kuching are worked out each day from the city's coordinates (1.55°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.

Kuching's times use the JAKIM method. That is the standard followed by most mosques in Malaysia. They are drawn from Kuching's own coordinates (1.5500°N, 110.3333°E). The schedule updates automatically at midnight, with no manual setting.

How Kuching's prayer times are worked out

From Kuching, the Qibla is 292° from true north. Face west to pray toward the Kaaba. It lies 7,930 km (4,927 miles) away in a straight line across the globe. Every time on this page is worked out from Kuching's own coordinates (1.55°N, 110.33°E), not a national average. That is why Kuching's times and its Qibla differ a little from cities a short distance away.

Kuching sits just 1.55°N of the equator. Its prayer calendar barely shifts across the year. With the JAKIM method, the longest daily fast is about 13h 37m. The shortest is about 13h 26m. That is a swing of only 0h 11m 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 Kuching 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 Bau, Serian and Kota Sambas. Each is only a few minutes off Kuching's clock.

Nearby: Bau prayer times · Serian prayer times · Kota Sambas prayer times · Singkawang prayer times · Sibu prayer times

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Mosques in Kuching

Mosques in and around Kuching include Masjid Darul Ihsan, Surau Darul Qarar, Surau Bandarsah, Masjid Darul Ibadah, Masjid Bandaraya Kuching and Masjid Darul Farhanah. The times on this page are worked out from Kuching'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.