Kazakhstan prayer times

Kazakhstan’s muftiate publishes both a national timetable and the engine behind it. The app reproduces the engine, not the table — this page explains the difference and why it matters above fifty degrees north.

Scope of this claim

The Spiritual Administration of Muslims of Kazakhstan (QMDB) publishes an official timetable on muftyat.kz and through its own API. The app does not serve that published table; it reproduces the calculation engine the muftiate publishes alongside it, including its latitude convention and its own rounding, which is a different thing. No zero-minute claim is therefore made for Kazakhstan. In an eight-city sample checked against the muftiate’s own annual API the two agreed, but a sample is not a country-wide guarantee. Precaution minutes added by individual mosques are outside this scope.

Prayer times in major cities

Almaty Kara Bulak Taraz Kyzylorda Oral Petropavl Aktau

Astana Aktepe Pavlodar Oskemen Turkistan Temirtau Rudny

Shymkent Karaganda Atyrau Semey Kostanay Kokshetau

Cities

Cities are listed by population. A city that is missing has no entry in the prayer-times database yet.

Astana

Atyrau

Atyrau Koschagyl Maqat Qulsary Tengiz Rotation Village

Baikonur

East Kazakhstan

Altay Glubokoye Oskemen Ridder

Karaganda

Abay Balqash Karaganda Osakarovka Saran Shakhtinsk Temirtau

Kostanay

Arkalyk Kostanay Lisakovsk Romanovka Rudny Zhitikara

Kyzylorda

Aral Bakyrly Karasan Kyzylorda Shiyeli Terenozek Zhalagash Zhangaqorghan Zhosaly

Mangystau

Aktau Bautino Beyneu Fort-Shevchenko Kuryk Kyzyk Mangistau Shetpe Zhanaozen

North Kazakhstan

Petropavl Teke

Pavlodar

Aksu Ekibastuz Ekibastuzskiy Kalkaman Karaoba Koryakovka Leninskiy Mayqayyng Pavlodar Pavlovka Razumovka Sarykamysskiy Sharbaqty Tavolzhan Uspenka Zhidkovka

Shymkent

Badam Fogelevo Shymkent

Turkistan

Abay Aksengir Aksu Anar Arys Ashchysay Atabay Bugun Chakpak Chernak Glinkovo Ibata Kapal Kara Bulak Kazygurt Kentau Koksaray Kumkent Lenger Mayakum Montaytas Shardara Shayan Sholakkorgan Temirlanovka Timur Tortkol Turkistan Zhetysay

Ulytau

Akhmetau Qarazhal Satpayev Zhangaarqa Zhezkazgan

West Kazakhstan

Oral

Zhambyl

Akyrtobe Akzhar Grodekovo Karatau Kulan Merke Moyynkum Samsonovka Sarykemer Shu Taraz Zhangatas

Zhetysu

Balpyk Bi Mulaly Sarqant Saryozek Taldykorgan Ushtobe Zhansugurov Zharkent Arasan Karatas Karazhar Suzak

Calculation and source

Institution: Spiritual Administration of Muslims of Kazakhstan (QMDB)
Method: QMDB / muftyat.kz published engine; The muftiate’s own published prayer-time engine, including its rounding and its distinct branch above 48° north; the Muslim World League 18°/17° preset is retained only as a fallback when the engine cannot produce a finite event.
Asr: Asr uses the Hanafi shadow ratio of two, which is what Kazakh timetables print; the ratio can be changed in the app and the muftiate engine keeps whichever one you select.
Precaution minutes: The muftiate’s own rounding and its margins on sunrise, Dhuhr, Asr and Maghrib are part of the published engine and are applied as the muftiate applies them. The app adds nothing further.
Time zone: Kazakhstan moved onto a single zone in March 2024, abolishing the former western and eastern split, and does not observe daylight saving. That single clock now covers more than forty degrees of longitude: on the same evening Maghrib arrives close to two hours apart in Oral and in Oskemen. Each city page is calculated from its own coordinates, and any table that treats Kazakhstan as one horizon will be wrong at the edges.
Hijri calendar and crescent: The muftiate announces the start of Ramadan and the two Eids for the country. The Hijri date shown in the app is calculated and can sit a day away from the muftiate’s announcement.

The national muftiate. It publishes prayer times for more than a hundred settlements, offers monthly and annual downloads and runs an open API, and it announces the Hijri dates. The app does not serve its table.

Spiritual Administration of Muslims of Kazakhstan (QMDB)

Kazakhstan does have an official timetable

This is not a country without an authority. The Spiritual Administration of Muslims of Kazakhstan publishes prayer times for more than a hundred settlements on muftyat.kz, offers monthly and annual downloads, and runs an open API that will return a whole year for a given latitude and longitude. By the standards of this site that is a well-documented national source. It is not served here, and these pages say so rather than implying otherwise.

What is used instead, and why it is close

The muftiate publishes something else that is unusually useful: the prayer-time engine itself, as readable code on its own site. That engine — with the muftiate’s own civil-date handling, rounding and high-latitude convention, including a distinct branch above forty-eight degrees north — is what the app reproduces for Kazakhstan. Checked against the muftiate’s own annual API for eight cities across 2026, the reproduction and the official figures agreed. That is strong evidence, but a sample from eight cities is not a promise about a hundred and twenty-five, which is why these pages stop short of a zero-minute claim.

Why the high-latitude branch matters here

Kazakhstan reaches above fifty-four degrees north at Petropavl, far enough that in high summer the sun never dips low enough for a conventional Isha angle to occur at all. Every serious northern timetable needs a rule for those nights, and the muftiate has published one. Reproducing the muftiate’s rule rather than substituting a generic high-latitude policy is the difference between a summer Isha that matches what Kazakh mosques call and one that quietly drifts by half an hour or simply fails to exist.

What changes when the table is integrated

When the muftiate’s published table is served directly, the Kazakh city pages will change in one visible way: the source label on each row will name the institution instead of reading as calculated, and the zero-minute language used for other integrated countries will become available here too. Nothing about the layout or the city list changes. Until then, the label is the accurate one — calculated with the muftiate’s engine, not served from the muftiate’s table.

Questions

Does Kazakhstan have an official prayer timetable?

Yes. The muftiate publishes one on muftyat.kz for more than a hundred settlements, with an open API. The app does not serve that table, so these pages are labelled as calculated.

How close are these times to the muftiate’s?

The app reproduces the muftiate’s own published calculation engine, and in an eight-city sample checked against its annual API the figures agreed. A sample is not a country-wide guarantee, so no zero-minute claim is made.

Which time zone applies?

Since 1 March 2024 the whole country uses UTC+05:00 with no daylight saving. The old two-zone split no longer applies, but the east–west spread in real solar time remains large.

Sources

QMDB / muftyat.kz — published prayer timetableQMDB prayer-time API

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