Rajshahi Prayer Times

Prayer Times in Rajshahi, Bangladesh

Rajshahiprayer times are calculated based on the city's precise geographic coordinates (24.3740°N, 88.6011°E) using the Karachi calculation method — the standard followed by most mosques in Bangladesh. 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 Rajshahi'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 Rajshahi prayer time calendar for the full month is shown below — so you can plan ahead without checking daily.

How Rajshahi's prayer times are worked out

Rajshahi sits 4,982 km (3,096 miles) from the Kaaba in Mecca, so the Qibla from here is 276° from true north — you face west to pray. Fajr and Isha depend on how far the sun drops below the horizon, and Bangladesh follows the Karachi method set by the University of Islamic Sciences, Karachi: Fajr begins when the sun is 18° 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 Rajshahi. Measured with the Karachi method, the longest daily fast here — from Fajr to Maghrib — runs about 15h 08m around June, while the shortest is roughly 11h 59m in December: a swing of 3h 09m across the year. That spread is set by Rajshahi's latitude (24.37°N); cities nearer the equator barely vary, while far-northern ones swing by many hours.

One local quirk worth knowing: Dhuhr in Rajshahi does not fall at 12:00. Because the city sits well west within its Asia/Dhaka time zone, the sun peaks about 14 minutes after clock noon, and Dhuhr follows the sun rather than the clock — today it is at 12:13 PM. The nearest cities we also publish times for are Puthia, Natore, Nawābganj — close enough that their times differ from Rajshahi's by only a few minutes.