Namaz Times in Pune, India Today

Four minutes from Mumbai, and effectively the same table

Pune lies at about 18.52 degrees north and 73.86 degrees east, inland from Mumbai and up on the Deccan plateau. People often assume that being a hundred and fifty kilometres from the coast, and several hundred metres higher, must put the city on a noticeably different timetable. It does not. Pune is about one degree of longitude east of Mumbai, and a degree is worth four minutes of solar time, so every prayer here enters roughly four minutes before it does on the coast.

Four minutes is small enough that a Mumbai timetable will usually get you to the right congregation, and large enough that during Ramzan it is worth having the correct figures rather than the neighbouring city's. The latitudes are close too — barely half a degree apart — so the two tables also move through the seasons in step. What separates Pune from Mumbai is not the sky.

Thirty-five minutes behind the national clock

Indian Standard Time is set from the meridian at 82.5 degrees east, which runs through eastern Uttar Pradesh, and Pune sits nearly nine degrees west of it. That puts the sun's highest point overhead about thirty-five minutes after the clock has said noon — one of the largest offsets in the country, behind only the Gujarat and Mumbai coasts.

The offset applies to all five prayers equally, holds on every date, and does not depend on the calculation method. It is why Dhuhr on this page falls so late against the clock, and why a visitor from the east of the country finds the whole day shifted. Set against Hyderabad, five degrees to the east, Pune runs about eighteen minutes behind; against Kolkata, close to an hour behind. India uses one offset of five and a half hours nationwide and no daylight saving, so none of this ever changes with the season.

Why five hundred metres of altitude does not buy a later Maghrib

Pune stands roughly five hundred and fifty metres above sea level, and there is a persistent assumption that height means the sun stays visible longer and Maghrib should therefore be later. The reasoning is not quite right, and the reason is worth understanding.

Height only extends a sunset if the land around you drops away, exposing a lower horizon. Pune sits on a plateau, so the surrounding country is at essentially the same elevation. There is no distant low horizon to see over, and no measurable delay to sunset from the city's altitude. Climb a hill that genuinely rises above the plateau — Sinhagad, for instance — and the effect appears, though even from there it amounts to only a few minutes.

Prayer calculations everywhere assume a flat, unobstructed horizon at sea level, and that is the convention the mosques here work to as well. The Sahyadri ridges to the west also block the true horizon from parts of the city, which can put the visible sunset slightly after the calculated one. Follow the listed time and the local congregation rather than what you can still see from a west-facing window.

Asr, and the two ways of reading a shadow

Asr is the only prayer where two properly calculated listings can differ, because the disagreement belongs to law rather than astronomy. Both positions begin from the shadow an upright object casts at solar noon.

• Under the Hanafi position, Asr enters once that shadow has grown by twice the object's own length.
• Under the Shafi'i, Maliki and Hanbali position, one further length is enough.

The Hanafi time is always later, typically by forty minutes to an hour, and the gap widens in winter when the noon sun is low. The Asr published here uses the Hanafi threshold, matching the school followed by most Muslims in Maharashtra and across India. Pune also has Shafi'i congregations, as most cities in western India do, and their Asr will be called appreciably earlier. If that is your madhab, take Asr from your own masjid. The other four prayers are the same either way.

Which calculation this page runs

Fajr and Isha have no shadow to work from. They are fixed by how far the sun has fallen below the horizon, a matter of scholarly convention rather than observation, and this is where calculation methods part company. This page applies the University of Islamic Sciences, Karachi parameters — eighteen degrees at dawn and eighteen at nightfall — the standard in general use across India. The background is on the India prayer times hub.

When an app and a mosque board disagree, the method setting is the first thing to check, then the Asr school. The rest is iqama practice, the interval a congregation leaves between the adhan and standing for prayer, which is a local decision and no part of the calculation.

What the year does at eighteen and a half degrees north

Pune's latitude gives it a moderate annual range: a little over two hours between the longest and the shortest day. Fajr and Maghrib move through the months, but nothing like as far as they do in Jaipur or Srinagar, and a routine built around namaz time here needs adjusting rather than rebuilding as the seasons turn.

Roza on the plateau

Fajr closes sehri and Maghrib opens iftar. Sunrise is printed in the table but bounds neither; it marks the last moment at which Fajr can still be prayed. Because the dawn angle used here is a deep one, a real interval separates Fajr from sunrise, and treating the two as the same thing is a serious error rather than a small one.

Pune's western position keeps sehri and iftar late on the clock, close to Mumbai's and far behind anything in the east of the country. The spacing between iftar and taraweeh is the part that shifts, because Isha is set by a twilight angle rather than a fixed count of minutes after sunset. The monthly Pune table shows the whole month rather than one day's figures.

Friday prayer, and where to look next

Jumu'ah replaces Dhuhr for those attending, called at the Dhuhr time listed above, with the khutbah's start and length left to the imam. Congregations fill well before the call, so allow for the journey rather than for the timetable alone; those praying at home pray Dhuhr as usual. For the direction of prayer, use the Qibla direction tool from your own coordinates — it is broadly westward from all of India, but the exact line varies and a phone compass indoors is readily deflected by steel and concrete. Ramzan and Eid dates are on the Hijri calendar, and the closest tables are Mumbai prayer times and Hyderabad prayer times.