Prayer Times in Lubumbashi, Congo (Kinshasa)

What these times mean for Lubumbashi

Lubumbashi gets about 12 hours and 30 minutes of daylight today, and the five prayer times are spaced across it. That number is the one driving the whole timetable: lengthen the day and Isha moves back, shorten it and the afternoon prayers crowd together.

Other Congo (Kinshasa) timetables

Congo (Kinshasa) has 4 other cities covered on this site. The list under the timetable below will take you to any of them.

The calculation behind them

The calculation used here is Umm Al-Qura University, Makkah. Methods differ mainly over Fajr and Isha, because each authority settles on a slightly different angle of the sun below the horizon — a few minutes either way is normal. Asr here follows the Hanafi reckoning, which places it noticeably later in the afternoon than the other schools would. Where your local mosque differs, follow the mosque — that is the timetable the congregation keeps.

The last third of the night

Lubumbashi gets roughly 8 hours and 45 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.

How the day runs in Lubumbashi

Fajr opens the day at 4:24 am, well before first light. By 5:39 am the sun is up and Fajr's time has passed. Dhuhr follows at 11:54 am once the sun has tipped past its highest point, and Asr at 4:16 pm. The sun goes down at Maghrib, 6:09 pm, and the day ends with Isha at 7:39 pm. That gives Lubumbashi roughly 12 hours and 30 minutes of daylight today.

Finding the qibla

From this city the direction is north-north-east, or 20° if you prefer the number. The distance works out to about 3,918 kilometres, or 2,435 miles.

Ramadan timings

Suhoor closes at 4:24 am in Lubumbashi, with iftar at 6:09 pm. Roughly 13 hours and 45 minutes, going by today's figures. Scroll to the month view to see how the length changes as Ramadan progresses.

Through the year

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

Questions people ask

This page rebuilds itself daily for Lubumbashi — the times are always the current ones.