SalahNowAfghanistan prayer times
Official prayer timetables in Afghanistan are published as scanned documents, and the times on these pages are calculated. This page explains the calculation the app uses, why the half-hour clock offset matters when you compare cards across a border, and what each city page shows.
Calculated · University of Islamic Sciences, Karachi
Compared with the published timetable at 2 points: 86.8% of 4,380 prayer-time cells within ±1 min, largest difference 6 min. Figures and method, institution by institution
Last checked: September 25, 2026
How these times are calculated
Official prayer timetables in Afghanistan are published as scanned documents. Every row on these pages says where its time comes from: a reviewed published timetable where one is served, otherwise a calculation with the University of Islamic Sciences, Karachi method, the convention in common use in the region. Precaution minutes added by individual mosques, and timetables built on a different method, can put a printed card a few minutes away from the calculated time.
Cities
Cities are listed by population. A city that is missing has no entry in the prayer-times database yet.
Calculation and source
- Institution
- Official timetables published as scanned documents
- Method
- University of Islamic Sciences, Karachi
- Fajr 18°, Isha 18° — a calculation, not a published table.
- Asr
- Afghanistan is overwhelmingly Hanafi, so Asr defaults to the shadow ratio of two; in winter that can put Asr more than half an hour later than the one-length ratio used in much of the Arab world, and the setting can be changed in the app.
- Precaution minutes
- None. The app adds no precaution minutes of its own; the precaution margins printed on local cards are not reproduced.
- Time zone
- Afghanistan keeps one of the world’s few half-hour offsets and does not observe daylight saving. That offset matters when you compare an Afghan card against one printed across the border: a thirty-minute gap against a Pakistani table is usually the clock rather than the calculation. Each city page is computed from its own coordinates, which matters in a country whose terrain puts Fayzabad and Zaranj on very different horizons.
- Hijri calendar and crescent
- Ramadan and Eid dates in Afghanistan are announced locally rather than through a publication this site could verify, and announcements have historically differed between regions and between Afghanistan and its neighbours. The Hijri date shown in the app is calculated and may sit a day away from a local announcement; where one has been made, follow it.
Official prayer timetables are published as scanned documents, not as data this site reads. The times on these pages are calculated with the Karachi method, and every row says so.
Afghanistan prayer times
Official timetables and the times on these pages
Official prayer timetables are published in Afghanistan, but as scanned documents rather than as data a website can read. Where such a timetable has been reviewed and is served, the row says so; everywhere else the times on these pages are calculated, and the row says that too instead of attributing a calculated minute to an official table. If your local mosque or your city’s official timetable differs by a minute or two, look first at precaution margins and at the gap between a calculation and a printed table.
The regional calculation convention
The convention used across Afghanistan and the wider region places Fajr at eighteen degrees of solar depression and Isha at the same eighteen degrees after sunset — the pairing associated with the University of Islamic Sciences in Karachi. It is the calculation behind most printed cards in Afghan and neighbouring Pakistani cities, and it is what these pages use. Where a local card differs by a minute or two, the cause is nearly always a precaution margin the printer added, not a different astronomical convention.
Asr and the Hanafi practice
Afghanistan is overwhelmingly Hanafi, and Asr on these pages follows the Hanafi position: the time begins when an object’s shadow reaches twice its own length beyond the shadow it cast at midday. In winter that can put Asr more than half an hour later than the single-length position used in much of the Arab world and East Africa, so a timetable brought from elsewhere will not line up. The app lets you change the Asr ratio on its own if you need to match a particular card.
Using these pages offline
Each Afghan city page carries today’s six times, the Hijri date and a monthly table, with a source label on every row. In the app itself the same times are computed on the device when the network is unavailable, using the same method and the same coordinates the server uses, so a city you have already opened keeps showing prayer times without a connection. That parity is deliberate: an offline time that disagreed with the online one would be worse than no time at all.
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