Prayer Times Los Angeles, CA Today

How Prayer Times in Los Angeles Change Through the Year

Prayer times in Los Angeles are set by the sun, so they move every single day. The biggest daily swing is at dawn. The earliest Fajr of 2026 in Los Angeles falls on 09 Jun 2026 at 4:17 AM, while the latest Fajr arrives on 08 Mar 2026 at 6:04 AM. That is a difference of 1 hour 47 minutes across the year, which is why a timetable printed in January cannot be reused in June. The swing is gentler than in the northern states because Los Angeles sits at 34.1 degrees north, where daylight stays steadier through the year.

The evening moves even more than the morning. The earliest Maghrib of the year in Los Angeles is 4:43 PM on 02 Dec 2026; the latest is 8:08 PM on 21 Jun 2026, a shift of 3 hours 25 minutes. On the longest day, 21 Jun 2026, sunset holds until 8:08 PM; on the shortest day, 21 Dec 2026, it comes at 4:48 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 Los Angeles runs 15 hours 50 minutes on 17 Jun 2026, from Fajr at 4:17 AM to Maghrib at 8:07 PM. The shortest fast is 11 hours 7 minutes on 18 Dec 2026. Solar noon moves too: Dhuhr ranges from 11:37 AM in one part of the year to 1:04 PM in another, following the equation of time. Measured against the other 218 cities and neighbourhoods we track, that longest fast ranks 143 of 218.

How Each Prayer Time Is Calculated in Los Angeles

Each prayer begins at a defined position of the sun, not at a fixed clock time. PrayerTimesUSA calculates the Los Angeles 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 Los Angeles is 23 Jumādá al-ūlá 1448 (03 Nov 2026).

Fajr (5:04 AM today)

Fajr begins at true dawn, when the first white light spreads across the eastern horizon. In Los Angeles today that is 5:04 AM, and the window closes at sunrise (6:15 AM). A prayer offered after sunrise counts as missed (qada), so the Fajr alarm matters most in summer: dawn in Los Angeles ranges across the year from 4:17 AM at its earliest to 6:04 AM at its latest.

Dhuhr (11:37 AM today)

Dhuhr begins just after the sun passes its highest point and starts to descend. Clock noon and solar noon rarely match, because Los Angeles sits inside the America/Los_Angeles zone rather than on its meridian, so Dhuhr today is 11:37 AM. On Fridays, Jummah replaces Dhuhr.

Asr (2:36 PM today)

Asr begins when an object's shadow equals its height beyond the noon shadow. That standard rule (Shafi'i, Maliki and Hanbali) gives 2:36 PM in Los Angeles today. The Hanafi rule waits until the shadow is twice the height, which falls roughly 45 to 65 minutes later; use the calculation method selector at the top of this page to view Hanafi Asr. Finish Asr before the sun turns yellow and weak near the horizon.

Maghrib (4:58 PM today)

Maghrib's window opens at sunset, the instant the sun's disc drops fully out of sight: 4:58 PM today in Los Angeles. For someone fasting, this is iftar, and the Sunnah is to break the fast at once, with dates or water, before praying.

Isha (6:08 PM today) and the Last Third of the Night

Isha starts when the red afterglow fades from the western sky: 6:08 PM tonight in Los Angeles. The middle of the Islamic night falls halfway between Maghrib and tomorrow's Fajr, and the last third of the night after that midpoint is the Tahajjud time. Find tonight's exact last third with our Tahajjud calculator.

Friday Jummah and Mosques in Los Angeles, California

Jummah, the Friday congregational prayer, replaces Dhuhr every week and is the largest regular gathering of Muslims in Los Angeles. 4 mosques and Islamic centers in Los Angeles are listed below with their addresses, including Islamic Center of Southern California at 434 S. Vermont Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90020. Islamic Center of Southern California publishes a Jummah time of Khutba 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 Los Angeles mosque is missing here, contact us with its address and Jummah time and we will add it.

Finding the Qibla Direction in Los Angeles (23.86° North-East)

Prayer is valid only when faced toward the Kaaba in Mecca, and from Los Angeles the shortest path over the Earth's surface, the great-circle route, points 23.86° north-east from true north. The bearing is calculated from Los Angeles's coordinates (34.1° N, 118.2° W) to the Kaaba (21.4225° N, 39.8262° E). At about 8341 miles (13424 km), it is one of the longer qibla distances in the United States. From Los Angeles, the great-circle line heads across Canada and the North Atlantic before descending toward Arabia.

To face the qibla at home or at work in Los Angeles, open the Qibla Compass on your phone, calibrate it with a slow figure-eight motion, and keep it away from metal furniture and electrical equipment that pull the needle. In a mosque, the mihrab already marks the direction.

Daylight Saving Time in California: The Two Jump Days

Twice a year in Los Angeles, the clock moves and every prayer time jumps with it. When daylight saving time begins on 08 Mar 2026, Fajr moves from 5:05 AM to 6:04 AM in a single night, a shift of just under an hour, and Maghrib moves from 5:54 PM to 6:55 PM. When standard time returns on 01 Nov 2026, Fajr moves from 6:02 AM back to 5:03 AM, and sunset prayers come an hour earlier in the evening. Every time on this page already follows the America/Los_Angeles clock in force on that date, so no manual adjustment is ever needed.

Daily Adhkar and Duas for Los Angeles

Complete the prayers with the authentic supplications: the dua after adhan, dua after wudu, the 33-times tasbih after each prayer, and duas for hardship and gratitude. Read them in our dua library with Arabic text, transliteration and translation.