Prayer Times San Diego, CA Today

How Prayer Times in San Diego Change Through the Year

No two days in San Diego start at quite the same time. Across 2026, the earliest dawn prayer falls on 11 Jun 2026 at 4:18 AM, while the latest falls on 08 Mar 2026 at 6:00 AM. Between those dates Fajr travels 1 hour 42 minutes, which is why this page recalculates the timetable daily instead of printing a fixed one. The swing is gentler than in the northern states because San Diego sits at 32.7 degrees north, where daylight stays steadier through the year.

The evening moves even more than the morning. The earliest Maghrib of the year in San Diego is 4:42 PM on 30 Nov 2026; the latest is 8:01 PM on 27 Jun 2026, a shift of 3 hours 19 minutes. On the longest day, 21 Jun 2026, sunset holds until 8:00 PM; on the shortest day, 21 Dec 2026, it comes at 4:47 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 San Diego runs 15 hours 41 minutes on 17 Jun 2026, from Fajr at 4:18 AM to Maghrib at 7:59 PM. The shortest fast is 11 hours 13 minutes on 17 Dec 2026. Solar noon moves too: Dhuhr ranges from 11:32 AM in one part of the year to 12:59 PM in another, following the equation of time. Measured against the other 218 cities and neighbourhoods we track, that longest fast sits near the gentle end of the table, ranked 181 of 218.

How Each Prayer Time Is Calculated in San Diego

Why do the times on this page move a little every day? Because each of the five prayers begins at a set position of the sun. PrayerTimesUSA works out the San Diego schedule with the ISNA method used across most of North America: Fajr and Isha at 15 degrees of sun depression, Asr by the standard shadow rule, with the Hanafi Asr in the method selector above. The Hijri date today in San Diego is 23 Jumādá al-ūlá 1448 (03 Nov 2026).

Fajr (4:59 AM today)

Fajr is the dawn prayer, and its time begins at true dawn, the first horizontal light in the east. Today in San Diego that is 4:59 AM. Pray it before sunrise (6:08 AM); after sunrise it counts as qada (missed). Through the year in San Diego, dawn moves between 4:18 AM and 6:00 AM, so the Fajr alarm needs resetting with the seasons.

Dhuhr (11:32 AM today)

Dhuhr enters just after solar noon, the moment the sun stops climbing and starts down. Solar noon in San Diego is not 12:00 on the clock, because the city sits inside the America/Los_Angeles zone rather than on its meridian line: today it gives a Dhuhr of 11:32 AM. On Fridays, Jummah takes Dhuhr's place.

Asr (2:34 PM today)

Asr begins when the afternoon shadow of an object equals its height, on top of the shadow it cast at noon. In San Diego today that is 2:34 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 (4:56 PM today)

Maghrib begins at sunset, the instant the sun's disc slips fully below the horizon: today that is 4:56 PM in San Diego. 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 (6:05 PM today) and the Last Third of the Night

Isha begins when the red twilight leaves the western sky, at 6:05 PM tonight in San Diego. 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 San Diego.

Friday Jummah and Mosques in San Diego, California

Jummah, the Friday congregational prayer, replaces Dhuhr every week and is the largest regular gathering of Muslims in San Diego. 5 mosques and Islamic centers in San Diego are listed below with their addresses, including Islamic Center of San Diego at 7050 Eckstrom Ave, San Diego, CA 92111. Each mosque sets its own khutbah time inside the Dhuhr window (Dhuhr today is 11:32 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 San Diego mosque is missing here, contact us with its address and Jummah time and we will add it.

Finding the Qibla Direction in San Diego (25.29° North-East)

Muslims pray facing the Kaaba in Mecca, and from San Diego that means facing 25.29° north-east from true north, measured the short way around the globe. The bearing comes from San Diego's position (32.7° N, 117.2° W) set against the Kaaba's (21.4225° N, 39.8262° E). At about 8400 miles (13518 km), it is one of the longer qibla distances in the United States. From San Diego, 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 San Diego, 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 San Diego, the clock moves and every prayer time jumps with it. When daylight saving time begins on 08 Mar 2026, Fajr moves from 5:02 AM to 6:00 AM in a single night, a shift of just under an hour, and Maghrib moves from 5:51 PM to 6:52 PM. When standard time returns on 01 Nov 2026, Fajr moves from 5:57 AM back to 4:57 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 San Diego

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.