Prayer Times in Kolkāta, India

Kolkāta, hour by hour

Today in Kolkāta, Fajr is at 4:21 am and the day closes with Isha at 6:31 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.

Clock time and solar time

Solar noon in Kolkāta falls about 40 minutes before twelve o'clock. That is why Dhuhr sits at 11:20 am rather than just past midday, and it carries through to Asr, Maghrib and Isha as well. This catches people out regularly, but prayer follows the sun, and the clock is only the label we put on it.

The fasting day in Kolkāta

Suhoor ends at Fajr — 4:21 am today — and the fast breaks at Maghrib, 5:01 pm. Around 12 hours and 40 minutes without food or water today. The full month is listed below if you want to see where the fast is heading.

How the times are worked out

Umm Al-Qura University, Makkah is the standard applied to this page. Dhuhr, Asr and Maghrib are largely settled across methods; Fajr and Isha are where authorities part company. Asr is Hanafi on this page, so expect it later than a Shafi timetable would show. A small gap between this page and your nearest masjid is nothing to worry about; go with theirs.

Lining up with the Kaaba

Face west — roughly 278° on a compass — and you are pointed at the Kaaba. Makkah is around 4,984 kilometres (3,097 miles) away in a straight line.

Kolkāta today, prayer by prayer

The first call comes at 4:21 am, for Fajr. The sun appears at 5:39 am, which ends the Fajr period. Dhuhr 11:20 am, Asr 3:25 pm — the two that carry the middle of the day. Sunset brings Maghrib at 5:01 pm; Isha is the last, at 6:31 pm. That is some 11 hours and 22 minutes between the sun coming up and going down.

If you are travelling

India has 135 other cities covered on this site. The list under the timetable below will take you to any of them.

Season by season in Kolkāta

Kolkāta sits far enough from the equator for the difference to be felt. Midsummer stretches the day, midwinter compresses it, and the prayer times follow.

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