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Prayer times in Delhi

India runs a single timezone across nearly thirty degrees of longitude, so clock times mean very different things at each end of it. Delhi sits west of centre, which pushes every prayer later than in the east of the country.

A typical day · University of Islamic Sciences, Karachi

  • Fajr04:46
  • Sunrise06:05
  • Dhuhr12:18
  • Asr15:46
  • Maghrib18:28
  • Isha19:47

These are reference times for Delhi, generated when this page was published. For times that update live and follow your own method and madhab, use the calculator on the home page or the app.

Why timetables disagree

Fajr and Isha depend on how far the sun sits below the horizon, and different authorities settled on different angles. A few minutes of variation between two timetables for Delhi is normal rather than an error — it usually means they use different parameters, not that one is wrong. Mozzi defaults to University of Islamic Sciences, Karachi here and lets you change it.

Across the year, Fajr in Delhi ranges from about 03:49 at its earliest to 05:52 at its latest. That spread is the single biggest reason a printed timetable goes stale.

Asr, and the two calculations

Asr is the one prayer where the difference is large rather than marginal. The Hanafi calculation places it noticeably later than the Shafiʿi, Maliki and Hanbali one — in Delhi today, about 57 minutes later. If Asr looks wrong to you and everything else looks right, that setting is almost always the reason.

Getting the adhan in Delhi

Mozzi plays a real call to prayer at each time rather than a notification chime, and on iOS 26 it can sound through Silent mode and Focus the way an alarm does. Times are calculated on your phone, so it keeps working with no signal.

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