Prayer Times in Patna, India

Praying in Patna

Every time on this page traces back to one pair of numbers: 25.61° N, 85.14° E, the position of Patna itself. It is a small distinction that matters in practice: the sun does not arrive everywhere in a country at once.

Why your mosque may differ slightly

These times follow Umm Al-Qura University, Makkah. The disagreement between methods lives almost entirely in Fajr and Isha, where the sun is below the horizon and the chosen angle decides the time. For Asr this page uses the Hanafi position — later in the day than the majority view. If the mosque down the road announces something a few minutes different, pray with the mosque.

The night in between

Patna gets roughly 9 hours and 56 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.

Qibla from Patna

Turn west, about 274°, for the qibla. That puts the Kaaba roughly 4,622 km — 2,872 miles — from here. If you are marking a permanent direction in a room, check true north rather than trusting a phone compass alone.

How much the times move

The seasons show here without dominating. Summer in Patna brings earlier Fajr times and a later Isha; winter pulls everything inward, and Maghrib can arrive while the afternoon still feels unfinished. Expect an hour or two of movement between the extremes.

If you are fasting

Stop eating by 4:36 am; break the fast at 5:10 pm. That is about 12 hours and 34 minutes on today's times. The full month is listed below if you want to see where the fast is heading.

Today's timetable

It starts in the dark, with Fajr at 4:36 am. The window stays open until sunrise, 5:56 am. Dhuhr 11:33 am, Asr 3:34 pm — the two that carry the middle of the day. Maghrib is prayed at 5:10 pm as the light goes, then Isha at 6:40 pm. Sunrise to sunset, today runs about 11 hours and 14 minutes.

Why Dhuhr lands where it does

Solar noon in Patna falls about 27 minutes before twelve o'clock. It explains the 11:33 am Dhuhr — the timezone boundary is drawn some way from this city's own meridian. This catches people out regularly, but prayer follows the sun, and the clock is only the label we put on it.

Prayer times in Patna: FAQ

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