API for "Next prayer time for a date" only gives Fajr time?

ImranF411

I'm working on an application and thought that this API could be useful, but maybe I'm misunderstanding something. It's currently around 9:10PM US East on 03 Aug, 2026, but when I call this API for any area, I'm constantly getting only information Fajr back, when I should expect to get Isha for New York area, or Maghrib for Chicago area. To be clear, for the settings in my request, Isha should start in New York around 9:27P US East, per the "Prayer times for a specific date" API, and should therefore be the "next prayer" returned by the "Next prayer time for a date" API. Is there something I'm missing in my request?

Here are my sample request for NY area:

NY:
curl 'https://api.aladhan.com/v1/nextPrayer/03-08-2026?latitude=40.0&longitude=-74.0&method=2&shafaq=general&tune=5%2C3%2C5%2C7%2C9%2C-1%2C0%2C8%2C-6&school=1&midnightMode=0&timezonestring=UTC&latitudeAdjustmentMethod=1&calendarMethod=UAQ&iso8601=false' \ --header 'Accept-Encoding: '

response:

{"code":200,"status":"OK","data":{"timings":{"Fajr":"08:33"},"date":{"readable":"03 Aug 2026","timestamp":"1785740400","hijri":{"date":"20-02-1448","format":"DD-MM-YYYY","day":"20","weekday":{"en":"Al Athnayn","ar":"\u0627\u0644\u0627\u062b\u0646\u064a\u0646"},"month":{"number":2,"en":"\u1e62afar","ar":"\u0635\u064e\u0641\u064e\u0631","days":30},"year":"1448","designation":{"abbreviated":"AH","expanded":"Anno Hegirae"},"holidays":[],"adjustedHolidays":[],"method":"UAQ"},"gregorian":{"date":"03-08-2026","format":"DD-MM-YYYY","day":"03","weekday":{"en":"Monday"},"month":{"number":8,"en":"August"},"year":"2026","designation":{"abbreviated":"AD","expanded":"Anno Domini"},"lunarSighting":false}},"meta":{"latitude":40,"longitude":-74,"timezone":"UTC","method":{"id":2,"name":"Islamic Society of North America (ISNA)","params":{"Fajr":15,"Isha":15},"location":{"latitude":39.70421229999999,"longitude":-86.39943869999999}},"latitudeAdjustmentMethod":"MIDDLE_OF_THE_NIGHT","midnightMode":"STANDARD","school":"HANAFI","offset":{"Imsak":"5","Fajr":"3","Sunrise":"5","Dhuhr":"7","Asr":"9","Maghrib":"-1","Sunset":0,"Isha":"8","Midnight":"-6"}}}}

gokboru

Salaam @ImranF411.

Is there a reason you are passing UTC as the timezonestring? That is almost certainly the reason you are not getting the time you expect. You can either omit timezonestring altogether and let the API compute it for you form the co-ordinates, pass in America/New_York, for instance, when you are requesting time for NY co-ordinates.

ImranF411

Wasalaam,
Thank you for explaining that. It's "UTC" because that's simply that was the default on the sample on the page (e.g. in the sample url with the curl command and in the "Test Request" button modal). I'll experiment more with it when i am able. Thank you for your response.

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