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Lucknow

Prayer Times in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh

July 17, 20262 Safar, 1448 AH
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Dhuhr
12:12 PM
02:45:55
Fajr
03:56 AM
Sunrise
05:23 AM
Asr
03:41 PM
Maghrib
07:20 PM
Isha
08:09 PM

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Supplementary times

Imsak
03:46
Midnight
23:29
Qiyam al-Layl
00:58
Last third of night
Qibla
Qibla bearing: 270.8° from North (roughly W). 4,195 km to Makkah.

Accurate Lucknow Prayer Times, Uttar Pradesh India

Get precise prayer times in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India, calculated using the University of Tehran — Institute of Geophysics method with Standard (Shafi, Hanbali, Maliki) juristic calculation for Asr. Today's Fajr begins at 03:56 and Isha at 20:09. The fasting duration from Fajr to Maghrib is 15 hours 24 minutes.

Timezone & Coordinates

Lucknow is located in the Asia/Kolkata timezone (UTC +05:30), at latitude 26.8500 and longitude 80.9167. eSalah automatically adjusts for Daylight Saving Time.

🌒 Moon tonight in Lucknow

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Phase
Waxing crescent (10% illuminated)
Sunrise
05:23 AM
Sunset
07:01 PM
Moonrise
08:19 AM
Moonset
09:20 PM
Moonset lag after sunset +2 h 19 min

How long the moon remains above the horizon after the sun sets — the primary signal for crescent visibility on the eve of a new Hijri month.

🔭 Sky at sunset — where to look

10°20°30°SWWSWWWNWNWNNWNSunMoon29° Azimuth (compass direction along horizon)

Stand outside facing W at sunset. The crescent will appear at the marked altitude above the western horizon.

🧭 Where to look W · 29.5°

Face W at sunset (azimuth 263°). The moon will be ~31° to the left of the setting sun, 29.5° above the horizon.

Moon age
2.8 days
Sun-moon elongation
37.6°

Lucknow flourished as the capital of the Awadh nawabs from the mid-eighteenth century until 1856, when British annexation ended its independent existence; the city remains a major center of South Asian Twelver Shia Muslim culture, distinct from but interwoven with the broader Sunni majority of northern India. The Bara Imambara, built in 1784 by Asaf-ud-Daula as part of a famine-relief construction project, is one of the largest vaulted halls in the world without supporting beams and serves as a major focal point of Muharram observances, alongside the Chota Imambara and Husainabad complex. Lucknow's Jama Masjid and the Aasifi Mosque are among its principal Sunni mosques. The city is also famed for its refined Urdu poetry, particularly the marsiya elegies of Mir Anis and Mirza Dabir, which remain part of the Muharram literary tradition. Today Lucknow continues to host one of the most elaborate Muharram processions in India.