Prayer times in Gilching, 2026

Today in Gilching

Sunday, 11 October 2026 · 30 Rabiʻ II 1448 AH · local time CEST (UTC+2)

Calculated and checked: on all 242 days of 2026 outside Diyanet’s summer period, our six times for Gilching are within 2 minutes of Aladhan, an independently written calculator run with the same settings. Checked on 11 October 2026.

Each time marks the start of a prayer’s window: broadly, Fajr lasts until sunrise (07:21 today), Dhuhr until Asr begins, Asr until sunset and Maghrib until Isha. If you are new to praying in Germany, expect the times to move quickly: this month Maghrib in Gilching shifts by up to 2 min and Fajr by up to 2 min from one day to the next, far more than near the equator, so check the table rather than last week’s times.

Gilching prayer timetable for October 2026

Every day of the month for Gilching; today is highlighted and Fridays are shaded. The Hanafi Asr column appears on wider screens.

Short summer nights in Gilching

Gilching lies at 48.1° north. In 2026 the longest day here has 16 h 18 min of daylight and the shortest only 8 h 35 min, so Fajr and Isha swing much more over the year than in Turkey, North Africa or South Asia. Around midsummer the sky never gets fully dark: from 25 May to 17 July the sun does not sink far enough below the horizon, and Fajr and Isha are set by a night rule instead (marked * in the table). From 22 April to 22 August Diyanet also switches to its own summer rule for Fajr and Isha, which we cannot reproduce; on those days (marked °) its published Fajr can be up to about 55 minutes later and its Isha up to about 50 minutes earlier than ours. If your mosque follows the Diyanet calendar, use its timetable for those weeks.

Longest day

16 h 18 min of daylight on 21 June

Shortest day

8 h 35 min on 21 December

Earliest Fajr

02:50 on 8 June (night rule)

Latest Isha

23:28 on 26 June (night rule)

Maghrib

earliest 16:28 (8 December), latest 21:26 (21 June)

Sunrise

earliest 05:07 (13 June), latest 07:58 (1 January)

Qibla direction from Gilching

The Qibla from Gilching is 129° from true north, measured clockwise: roughly south-east. The Kaaba in Makkah is about 3,905 km away along the shortest path over the globe. A phone compass shows magnetic north, which in Germany is currently only a few degrees from true north, so the difference hardly matters when you set up a prayer mat.

Mosques in Gilching

Our data has no mosque in Gilching (Bavaria) yet. It comes from OpenStreetMap, where small prayer rooms and mosques inside ordinary buildings are often missing, so this does not mean there is no community in town; asking locally or at the nearest larger mosque usually helps. The closest city on our list with mosques is Puchheim, 6 km away (prayer times in Puchheim).

Prayer times in nearby cities

Today’s times in the five closest larger cities (50,000+ inhabitants) that have their own page. The sun moves about one degree of longitude every four minutes, so cities further east pray earlier: 4 of these five have an earlier Dhuhr than Gilching. “Dhuhr ±” is the difference to Gilching in minutes.

Towns near Gilching

• Puchheim (6 km)
• Germering (7 km)
• Gauting (8 km)
• Fürstenfeldbruck (8 km)
• Olching (11 km)
• Gröbenzell (12 km)
• Starnberg (12 km)
• Karlsfeld (19 km)

How the times are calculated

The times are calculated from the position of the sun over the centre of Gilching (48.11° N, 11.29° E, from GeoNames, CC BY 4.0), not copied from any timetable. By default we use settings that match the tables Diyanet (Türkiye’s Presidency of Religious Affairs) publishes for German cities: Fajr when the sun is 18° below the horizon, Isha at 16.15°, plus the minute offsets found in those tables (sunrise −7, Dhuhr +5, Asr +4, Maghrib +7 minutes). Asr uses the majority rule (shadow equal to the object’s length plus its midday shadow); the Hanafi time (twice the length) is shown as well.

Before a city gets a page, we compare its times for a whole year with the Aladhan API, an independently written calculator, run with the same settings, and for the largest cities also with Diyanet’s own published yearly table; only cities that stay within 3 minutes on every day outside the summer weeks described above are published. For Gilching the largest difference was 2 minutes from Aladhan. Aladhan’s Asr follows a slightly different seasonal pattern than ours (up to 2 to 3 minutes apart), while the other five agree within a minute. Many apps use the Muslim World League method instead (Fajr 18°, Isha 17°, no offsets). Here are both for today: