Prayer Times in Kinshasa, Congo (Kinshasa)

Praying in Kinshasa

As things stand today, the first prayer in Kinshasa is at 4:22 am and the last at 7:20 pm. Those times shift by a minute or two most days as the sun moves, and this page recalculates them every morning rather than holding a fixed list.

Lining up with the Kaaba

The qibla from here runs north-east, a bearing of about 42°. Makkah is around 3,915 kilometres (2,433 miles) away in a straight line. Compass apps usually read magnetic north rather than true north, so allow a few degrees of local declination if you are setting a prayer mat precisely.

What changes between summer and winter

Near the equator the timetable is remarkably stable. Kinshasa sees close to twelve hours of daylight in every month, so Fajr and Maghrib move by minutes rather than hours across the year.

Nearby cities

There are 4 more Congo (Kinshasa) cities here, and each has its own times rather than sharing Kinshasa's. The list under the timetable below will take you to any of them.

The calculation behind them

These times follow Umm Al-Qura University, Makkah. Where two calculations disagree it is nearly always Fajr or Isha: those depend on twilight, and twilight is a judgement call. Asr is Hanafi on this page, so expect it later than a Shafi timetable would show. Local practice wins over any website, this one included.

Fasting hours

The fasting day here runs 4:22 am to 5:50 pm: suhoor closes at the first, iftar comes at the second. Today it works out to some 13 hours and 28 minutes. Scroll to the month view to see how the length changes as Ramadan progresses.

For tahajjud

Kinshasa gets roughly 9 hours and 2 minutes of night between the last prayer and the first. If you pray tahajjud, the final third of that stretch is the one to aim for; counting backwards from Fajr is the easier way to locate it.

Today's timetable

Fajr is at 4:22 am — early, and in darkness. Sunrise at 5:35 am closes that window. Dhuhr follows at 11:42 am once the sun has tipped past its highest point, and Asr at 4:05 pm. Maghrib comes with sunset at 5:50 pm, and Isha closes the day at 7:20 pm. Around 12 hours and 15 minutes of daylight, all told.

Common questions