Prayer Times Birmingham, AL Today

How Prayer Times in Birmingham Change Through the Year

The sun runs Birmingham's prayer clock, and it never keeps the same hours for long. Fajr reaches its earliest point of 2026 on 13 Jun 2026, at 4:13 AM, and its latest on 08 Mar 2026, at 5:59 AM: a swing of 1 hour 46 minutes between the two. A timetable printed in winter is out of date by summer. The swing is gentler than in the northern states because Birmingham sits at 33.5 degrees north, where daylight stays steadier through the year.

The evening moves even more than the morning. The earliest Maghrib of the year in Birmingham is 4:39 PM on 28 Nov 2026; the latest is 8:01 PM on 22 Jun 2026, a shift of 3 hours 22 minutes. On the longest day, 21 Jun 2026, sunset holds until 8:00 PM; on the shortest day, 21 Dec 2026, it comes at 4:43 PM.

For anyone fasting outside Ramadan, such as the Monday and Thursday fasts or the white days each month, the longest fast of 2026 in Birmingham runs 15 hours 47 minutes on 22 Jun 2026, from Fajr at 4:14 AM to Maghrib at 8:01 PM. The shortest fast is 11 hours 9 minutes on 21 Dec 2026. Solar noon moves too: Dhuhr ranges from 11:31 AM in one part of the year to 12:58 PM in another, following the equation of time. Measured against the other 218 cities and neighbourhoods we track, that longest fast ranks 160 of 218.

How Each Prayer Time Is Calculated in Birmingham

Prayer times follow the sun, so they shift a little every day. For Birmingham, this page uses the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) method, the one most US mosques follow: a 15-degree sun angle for Fajr and Isha, the standard shadow rule for Asr, and the Hanafi Asr available in the method selector. Today, 03 Nov 2026, is 23 Jumādá al-ūlá 1448 on the Hijri calendar.

Fajr (4:58 AM today)

True dawn, the first white light spreading sideways along the eastern horizon, opens the Fajr window. In Birmingham today that moment is 4:58 AM. The window shuts at sunrise (6:08 AM); a Fajr prayed after that is qada, a missed prayer made up later. Because dawn in Birmingham swings between 4:13 AM and 5:59 AM over the year, a fixed alarm time never works for long.

Dhuhr (11:31 AM today)

Dhuhr starts once the sun has crossed its peak and begun to decline. Solar noon is not the same as 12:00 on the clock, because Birmingham sits within the America/Chicago zone, away from its central meridian: today Dhuhr in Birmingham is 11:31 AM. On Fridays the Jummah congregation takes the place of Dhuhr.

Asr (2:32 PM today)

Under the standard rule used by the Shafi'i, Maliki and Hanbali schools, Asr opens when a shadow stretches to the object's own length beyond the noon shadow. That gives 2:32 PM in Birmingham today. Hanafi Asr, at twice the length, lands roughly 45 to 65 minutes later; flip the method selector at the top of the page to see it. The time to pray Asr runs out as the light yellows toward sunset.

Maghrib (4:53 PM today)

Maghrib begins at sunset, the instant the sun's disc slips fully below the horizon: today that is 4:53 PM in Birmingham. On a fasting day this moment is iftar, and the Sunnah is to break the fast right away, with dates or water, and then pray Maghrib.

Isha (6:03 PM today) and the Last Third of the Night

Isha begins when the red twilight leaves the western sky, at 6:03 PM tonight in Birmingham. Islamic midnight is the midpoint between Maghrib and the next Fajr, and the last third of the night after it is the time of Tahajjud, the voluntary night prayer. Use our Tahajjud calculator to find tonight's last third for Birmingham.

Friday Jummah and Mosques in Birmingham, Alabama

Jummah, the Friday congregational prayer, replaces Dhuhr every week and is the largest regular gathering of Muslims in Birmingham. The mosque listed below serves Birmingham with its address, including Muhammad Mosque #69 at 521 Tuscaloosa Ave, Birmingham, AL 35211. Each mosque sets its own khutbah time inside the Dhuhr window (Dhuhr today is 11:31 AM), so check the mosque's own notice board or website before you go, and arrive early: Friday parking fills fast.

These mosques also run weekend schools, community iftars in Ramadan and the five daily prayers in congregation. If a Birmingham mosque is missing here, contact us with its address and Jummah time and we will add it.

Finding the Qibla Direction in Birmingham (50.71° North-East)

Prayer is valid only when faced toward the Kaaba in Mecca, and from Birmingham the shortest path over the Earth's surface, the great-circle route, points 50.71° north-east from true north. The bearing is calculated from Birmingham's coordinates (33.5° N, 86.8° W) to the Kaaba (21.4225° N, 39.8262° E). Along that bearing, the Kaaba is about 7266 miles (11693 km) from Birmingham in a straight line over the Earth's curved surface. It surprises many people that the direction is north-east rather than south-east: from North America, the shortest line to Mecca crosses the North Atlantic, not the Pacific.

At home or at work in Birmingham, the Qibla Compass on your phone reads the bearing directly. Calibrate it with a slow figure-eight motion, and keep it clear of metal furniture and electronics that drag the needle. Inside a mosque, the mihrab already marks the direction.

Daylight Saving Time in Alabama: The Two Jump Days

Birmingham moves its clocks twice a year, and the prayer timetable jumps with them. Daylight saving begins on 08 Mar 2026: Fajr leaps from 5:00 AM to 5:59 AM in one night, a shift of just under an hour, and Maghrib follows, from 5:49 PM to 6:50 PM. On 01 Nov 2026 the clocks fall back, and Fajr returns from 5:56 AM to 4:56 AM. Mosques in Birmingham reset their iqamah boards on the same weekends. This page always follows the America/Chicago time in force, so the times you see are already adjusted.

Daily Adhkar and Duas for Birmingham

Pair the prayers with the recorded supplications: the dua after the adhan, the dua after wudu, tasbih of 33 after every prayer, and duas for relief and gratitude. The full set, with Arabic, transliteration and translation, is in our dua library.