Prayer Times in Karachi, Pakistan

Karachi prayer times explained

From Karachi, the qibla points west — a bearing of about 268° on a compass. Makkah lies some 2,801 kilometres away, and the times on this page are calculated for this city specifically rather than for the country as a whole.

How much the times move

Across the year the Karachi timetable shifts by an hour or two at each end — long summer evenings push Isha back, short winter days crowd Dhuhr, Asr and Maghrib together.

How the day runs in Karachi

It starts in the dark, with Fajr at 5:18 am. You have until 6:37 am, when the sun comes up. Dhuhr 12:16 pm, Asr 4:18 pm — the two that carry the middle of the day. Sunset brings Maghrib at 5:54 pm; Isha is the last, at 7:24 pm. That is some 11 hours and 17 minutes between the sun coming up and going down.

The last third of the night

Karachi gets roughly 9 hours and 54 minutes of night between the last prayer and the first. The final third of the night carries particular weight in the tradition, and it is measured from Isha to Fajr rather than by the clock.

Fasting hours

Suhoor ends at Fajr — 5:18 am today — and the fast breaks at Maghrib, 5:54 pm. Around 12 hours and 36 minutes without food or water today. The full month is listed below if you want to see where the fast is heading.

Where these times come from

These times follow Umm Al-Qura University, Makkah. Dhuhr, Asr and Maghrib are largely settled across methods; Fajr and Isha are where authorities part company. For Asr this page uses the Hanafi position — later in the day than the majority view. A small gap between this page and your nearest masjid is nothing to worry about; go with theirs.

A few things worth knowing

No need to bookmark a timetable: the page recalculates for Karachi daily.