Prayer Times San Francisco, CA Today

How Prayer Times in San Francisco Change Through the Year

The sun runs San Francisco's prayer clock, and it never keeps the same hours for long. Fajr reaches its earliest point of 2026 on 15 Jun 2026, at 4:15 AM, and its latest on 31 Oct 2026, at 6:21 AM: a swing of 2 hours 6 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 A timetable printed in winter is out of date by summer.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 San Francisco sits at 37.8 degrees north, where daylight stays steadier through the year.

Sunset moves even further. Maghrib in San Francisco is earliest on 29 Nov 2026 at 4:51 PM and latest on 24 Jun 2026 at 8:36 PM, a shift of 3 hours 45 minutes. On the longest day of the year, 21 Jun 2026, the sun sets at 8:35 PM; on the shortest day, 21 Dec 2026, it sets at 4:54 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 San Francisco runs 16 hours 19 minutes, on 16 Jun 2026, from a Fajr of 4:15 AM to a Maghrib of 8:34 PM; the shortest is just 10 hours 51 minutes on 19 Dec 2026. Measured against the other 218 cities and neighbourhoods we track, that longest fast ranks 95 of 218. Solar noon drifts as well: Dhuhr moves between 11:53 AM and 1:20 PM across the year, following the equation of time.

How Each Prayer Time Is Calculated in San Francisco

Prayer times follow the sun, so they shift a little every day. For San Francisco, 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 (5:24 AM today)

True dawn, the first white light spreading sideways along the eastern horizon, opens the Fajr window. In San Francisco today that moment is 5:24 AM. The window shuts at sunrise (6:37 AM); a Fajr prayed after that is qada, a missed prayer made up later. Because dawn in San Francisco swings between 4:15 AM and 6:21 AM over the year, a fixed alarm time never works for long.

Dhuhr (11:53 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 San Francisco sits within the America/Los_Angeles zone, away from its central meridian: today Dhuhr in San Francisco is 11:53 AM. On Fridays the Jummah congregation takes the place of Dhuhr.

Asr (2:47 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 2:47 PM in San Francisco 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 (5:09 PM today)

Maghrib begins at sunset, the instant the sun's disc slips fully below the horizon: today that is 5:09 PM in San Francisco. 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 (6:22 PM today) and the Last Third of the Night

Isha begins when the last red glow leaves the western sky: 6:22 PM tonight in San Francisco. Halfway between Maghrib and the next Fajr falls Islamic midnight, and the last third of the night after it is set aside for Tahajjud, the voluntary night prayer. Tonight's last third for San Francisco is on our Tahajjud calculator.

Friday Jummah and Mosques in San Francisco, California

Every Friday, Jummah replaces Dhuhr, and it is the largest weekly gathering of Muslims in San Francisco. The verified list below covers 6 mosques and Islamic centers in San Francisco, with addresses, headed by Islamic Society of SF. Each mosque sets its own khutbah time inside the Dhuhr window (Dhuhr today is 11:53 AM), so check the mosque's own notice board or website before you go, and arrive early: Friday parking fills fast.

Alongside Jummah, these mosques hold the five daily congregational prayers, weekend Quran classes for children, and taraweeh in Ramadan. Know a San Francisco mosque that is not listed? Send us its details and we will add it with its address and Jummah time.

Finding the Qibla Direction in San Francisco (18.84° North)

Muslims pray facing the Kaaba in Mecca, and from San Francisco that means facing 18.84° north from true north, measured the short way around the globe. The bearing comes from San Francisco's position (37.8° N, 122.4° W) set against the Kaaba's (21.4225° N, 39.8262° E). At about 8187 miles (13176 km), it is one of the longer qibla distances in the United States. From San Francisco, 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 Francisco, 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 Francisco, the clock moves and every prayer time jumps with it. When daylight saving time begins on 08 Mar 2026, Fajr moves from 5:21 AM to 6:19 AM in a single night, a shift of just under an hour, and Maghrib moves from 6:09 PM to 7:10 PM. When standard time returns on 01 Nov 2026, Fajr moves from 6:21 AM back to 5:22 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 Francisco

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.