Namaz Times in Mumbai, India Today

Among the last places in India the sun reaches

Mumbai stands at about 19.08 degrees north and 72.88 degrees east, on the Arabian Sea coast. Indian Standard Time is fixed to the meridian at 82.5 degrees east, and Mumbai lies almost ten degrees west of it. At four minutes of solar time per degree, that puts the city's true midday close to forty minutes after the clock reads noon.

The practical consequence is that every prayer here falls late against the national clock, and Maghrib in particular. Nowhere in mainland India does the sun set later by the clock than on this coast. During Ramadan that is the whole shape of the day: roza in Mumbai runs on to a later hour than it does for anyone to the east, even though the fast is no longer in real terms.

One clock, sixteen degrees of sun

India runs a single offset across a country roughly thirty degrees wide, and the half-hour offset of UTC+5:30 is itself unusual — most of the world uses whole hours. The effect is easiest to see by comparison. Kolkata sits about fifteen and a half degrees east of Mumbai, which works out at a little over an hour. Iftar in Kolkata is finished and Isha approaching while Mumbai is still waiting for the sunset adhan.

Smaller comparisons are worth knowing. Pune, inland and about one degree east, runs some four minutes ahead of this page. Hyderabad, on the Deccan, is around twenty-two minutes ahead. Ahmedabad sits at almost exactly Mumbai's longitude and shares its clock times to within a minute or two, differing only through latitude. These gaps are stable: they do not vary with the season or the calculation method, because they are a matter of where the sun is, not of how anyone defines dawn.

Asr, and the hour your app may be missing

The most common complaint about any Indian namaz time listing concerns Asr, and it is not usually a bug. Two juristic positions are in general use, and they are measured from the same starting point — the shadow an object throws at solar noon.

The Shafi'i, Maliki and Hanbali position brings Asr in when the shadow has lengthened by one further object-length beyond that noon shadow. The Hanafi position waits for two. The Hanafi time is always later, typically by forty minutes to an hour, more in winter when the sun tracks low.

Mumbai's Muslim population is largely Hanafi, as it is across most of the country, and the Asr published here uses the Hanafi threshold. Migration from the coastal south means the city also has Shafi'i congregations, particularly among families with Kerala and Konkan roots; those mosques will call Asr appreciably earlier. Neither table is wrong. If your masjid follows the Shafi'i position, follow your masjid.

Where these numbers come from

Fajr and Isha cannot be settled by shadow length. They depend on how far the sun has dropped below the horizon, which is a judgement rather than a geometric fact, and different authorities draw the line differently. This page applies the University of Islamic Sciences, Karachi convention — eighteen degrees at dawn, eighteen at nightfall — used across India and the wider subcontinent. Further detail sits on the India prayer times hub.

Where a phone disagrees with a mosque board, check the method setting before anything else. After that, the remaining difference is iqama: the interval a congregation leaves between adhan and the start of prayer, which is set locally and differs from one street to the next.

A coastal latitude and a modest annual swing

At nineteen degrees north, Mumbai's year is comparatively even. Fajr and Maghrib drift with the seasons, but over a range of perhaps an hour across the whole year rather than the wide extremes of the far north. Srinagar, at thirty-four degrees, moves far more; Kochi, near ten degrees, moves noticeably less.

One local point about the horizon: prayer calculations everywhere assume a flat, unobstructed skyline. Sunset is computed for a level horizon at sea level, not for the view from a high floor in a tower block, where the sun stays visible slightly longer. Follow the listed time and the mosque rather than what you can still see from the balcony.

Sehri, iftar and taraweeh

Fajr closes sehri and Maghrib opens iftar. Sunrise is listed but bounds neither — it is simply the last moment at which Fajr can still be prayed. With an eighteen-degree dawn angle the gap between Fajr and sunrise is substantial, so treating sunrise as the end of the pre-dawn meal is a serious error rather than a small one.

Because Isha here is set by an angle and not by a fixed interval after sunset, the distance between iftar and taraweeh shifts through the year. Check the monthly Mumbai table at the start of Ramadan instead of assuming the first night's spacing will hold.

Jumu'ah on a working Friday

Jumu'ah replaces Dhuhr for those who attend, and the adhan follows the Dhuhr time shown above. In a city where many people pray at an office musalla during the week, Friday means travelling to a jami' masjid, and the older congregations around Mohammed Ali Road fill long before the khutbah begins. Allow for that rather than for the timetable alone. Those praying at home pray Dhuhr as normal.

Qibla, the monthly table, and other Indian cities

Use the Qibla direction tool to work out the bearing from your own position. It is worth doing properly indoors, where reinforced concrete and lift shafts routinely deflect a phone compass. Ramadan and Eid dates are on the Hijri calendar. For the two closest comparisons, see Pune prayer times and Ahmedabad prayer times.