Prayer Times Anchorage, AK Today

How Prayer Times in Anchorage Change Through the Year

Prayer times in Anchorage are set by the sun, so they move every single day. The biggest daily swing is at dawn. The earliest Fajr of 2026 in Anchorage falls on 14 Jun 2026 at 3:10 AM, while the latest Fajr arrives on 28 Dec 2026 at 7:47 AM. That is a difference of 4 hours 37 minutes across the year, which is why a timetable printed in January cannot be reused in June. Few American cities see a dawn swing this large. It comes from Anchorage's latitude of 61.2 degrees north, where summer days stretch long and winter days contract quickly.

Sunset moves even further. Maghrib in Anchorage is earliest on 13 Dec 2026 at 3:40 PM and latest on 22 Jun 2026 at 11:43 PM, a shift of 8 hours 3 minutes. On the longest day of the year, 21 Jun 2026, the sun sets at 11:42 PM; on the shortest day, 21 Dec 2026, it sets at 3:41 PM.

Anyone who keeps the voluntary fasts, on Mondays and Thursdays or the white days of each month, feels the range most. The longest fast of 2026 in Anchorage runs 20 hours 32 minutes, on 18 Jun 2026, from a Fajr of 3:10 AM to a Maghrib of 11:42 PM; the shortest is just 7 hours 57 minutes on 18 Dec 2026. Measured against the other 218 cities and neighbourhoods we track, that is one of the ten longest fasting days in the United States: only 0 places fast longer at midsummer. Solar noon drifts as well: Dhuhr moves between 12:43 PM and 2:10 PM across the year, following the equation of time.

At the height of summer the night almost disappears. Isha does not arrive until 11:59 PM on 29 Apr 2026, and the next Fajr follows only about 3 hours 11 minutes later. Worshippers in Anchorage guard their sleep through June and July, and some mosques adjust or combine the summer night prayers, so check your mosque's board in midsummer.

How Each Prayer Time Is Calculated in Anchorage

Each prayer begins at a defined position of the sun, not at a fixed clock time. PrayerTimesUSA calculates the Anchorage timetable with the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) method, the standard used by most mosques in the United States: Fajr and Isha at a sun angle of 15 degrees, Asr by the standard shadow rule, with the Hanafi Asr shown through the method selector. Today's Hijri date in Anchorage is 23 Jumādá al-ūlá 1448 (03 Nov 2026).

Fajr (6:29 AM today)

Fajr begins at true dawn, when the first white light spreads across the eastern horizon. In Anchorage today that is 6:29 AM, and the window closes at sunrise (8:33 AM). A prayer offered after sunrise counts as missed (qada), so the Fajr alarm matters most in summer: dawn in Anchorage ranges across the year from 3:10 AM at its earliest to 7:47 AM at its latest.

Dhuhr (12:43 PM today)

Dhuhr enters just after solar noon, the moment the sun stops climbing and starts down. Solar noon in Anchorage is not 12:00 on the clock, because the city sits inside the America/Anchorage zone rather than on its meridian line: today it gives a Dhuhr of 12:43 PM. On Fridays, Jummah takes Dhuhr's place.

Asr (2:26 PM today)

Asr begins when the afternoon shadow of an object equals its height, on top of the shadow it cast at noon. In Anchorage today that is 2:26 PM by the standard (Shafi'i, Maliki, Hanbali) rule. The Hanafi school waits for double the height, around 45 to 65 minutes later; the method selector above shows that time. Pray it before the sun weakens and yellows near the horizon.

Maghrib (4:51 PM today)

Maghrib begins at sunset, the instant the sun's disc slips fully below the horizon: today that is 4:51 PM in Anchorage. 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 (6:56 PM today) and the Last Third of the Night

Isha begins when the red twilight leaves the western sky, at 6:56 PM tonight in Anchorage. 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 Anchorage.

Friday Jummah and Mosques in Anchorage, Alaska

Jummah, the Friday congregational prayer, replaces Dhuhr every week and is the largest regular gathering of Muslims in Anchorage. 2 mosques and Islamic centers in Anchorage are listed below with their addresses, including Islamic Community Center of Anchorage Alaska at 8005 Spring St, Anchorage, AK 99518. Islamic Community Center of Anchorage Alaska publishes a Jummah time of Friday Prayer 1:00 PM. Other mosques set their own khutbah times, so confirm before you travel.

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

Finding the Qibla Direction in Anchorage (350.88° North)

Muslims pray facing the Kaaba in Mecca, and from Anchorage that means facing 350.88° north from true north, measured the short way around the globe. The bearing comes from Anchorage's position (61.2° N, 149.9° W) set against the Kaaba's (21.4225° N, 39.8262° E). At about 6701 miles (10784 km), that puts Anchorage among the closer American places to Mecca. From Anchorage, the great-circle line runs over the high Arctic before descending toward Arabia, which is why the bearing points almost due north.

At home or at work in Anchorage, 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 Alaska: The Two Jump Days

Twice a year in Anchorage, the clock moves and every prayer time jumps with it. When daylight saving time begins on 08 Mar 2026, Fajr moves from 5:42 AM to 6:39 AM in a single night, a shift of just under an hour, and Maghrib moves from 6:41 PM to 7:44 PM. When standard time returns on 01 Nov 2026, Fajr moves from 7:22 AM back to 6:24 AM, and sunset prayers come an hour earlier in the evening. Every time on this page already follows the America/Anchorage clock in force on that date, so no manual adjustment is ever needed.

Daily Adhkar and Duas for Anchorage

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.