Labuan Bajo Prayer Times

Prayer Times in Labuan Bajo, Indonesia

Labuan Bajoprayer times are calculated based on the city's precise geographic coordinates (8.4964°S, 119.8877°E) using the Kemenag calculation method — the standard followed by most mosques in Indonesia. 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 Labuan Bajo'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 Labuan Bajo prayer time calendar for the full month is shown below — so you can plan ahead without checking daily.

How Labuan Bajo's prayer times are worked out

Labuan Bajo sits 9,338 km (5,802 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 Indonesia follows the Kemenag method set by Kementerian Agama, Indonesia's Ministry of Religious Affairs: 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 Labuan Bajo. Measured with the Kemenag method, the longest daily fast here — from Fajr to Maghrib — runs about 14h 04m around December, while the shortest is roughly 13h 02m in June: a swing of 1h 02m across the year. That spread is set by Labuan Bajo's latitude (8.50°S); cities nearer the equator barely vary, while far-northern ones swing by many hours.

One local quirk worth knowing: Dhuhr in Labuan Bajo does not fall at 12:00. Because the city sits well west within its Asia/Makassar time zone, the sun peaks about 9 minutes after clock noon, and Dhuhr follows the sun rather than the clock — today it is at 12:08 PM. The nearest cities we also publish times for are Bima, Dompu, Ende — close enough that their times differ from Labuan Bajo's by only a few minutes.