New Delhi Prayer Times

Prayer Times in New Delhi, India

Prayer times in New Delhi are worked out each day from the city's coordinates (28.62°N). We use the Karachi method, the one followed across India. The five times shift by a minute or two each day as the sun moves. The full month is listed below.

New Delhi's times use the Karachi method. That is the standard followed by most mosques in India. They are drawn from New Delhi's own coordinates (28.6214°N, 77.2148°E). The schedule updates automatically at midnight, with no manual setting.

How New Delhi's prayer times are worked out

From New Delhi, the Qibla is 267° from true north. Face west to pray toward the Kaaba. It lies 3,835 km (2,383 miles) away in a straight line across the globe. Every time on this page is worked out from New Delhi's own coordinates (28.62°N, 77.21°E), not a national average. That is why New Delhi's times and its Qibla differ a little from cities a short distance away.

One local quirk shapes the New Delhi timetable: midday prayer does not land at 12:00. New Delhi lies well west inside its Kolkata time zone. So the sun peaks about 30 minutes after clock noon. Dhuhr follows the sun, not the clock — today it falls at 12:20 PM. Across the year, the fast here runs from about 15h 32m near June down to 11h 44m in December.

The Fajr and Isha angles for New Delhi come from the University of Islamic Sciences, Karachi. The Karachi method sets Fajr when the sun is 18° 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 Delhi, Karol Bāgh and Delhi Cantonment. Each is only a few minutes off New Delhi's clock.

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Mosques in New Delhi

Mosques in and around New Delhi include Jama Masjid, New Delhi, Dargah Hazrat Baba Rangeele Shah Chisthi Nizami, Masjid Irvin Road, Masjid Kasturba Gandhi Marg, Masjid Abdus Salam and Dargah Shah Abdul Salam Faridi (RA). The times on this page are worked out from New Delhi'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.