Prayer Times Santa Clarita, CA Today

How Prayer Times in Santa Clarita Change Through the Year

The sun runs Santa Clarita's prayer clock, and it never keeps the same hours for long. Fajr reaches its earliest point of 2026 on 14 Jun 2026, at 4:16 AM, and its latest on 08 Mar 2026, at 6:05 AM: a swing of 1 hour 49 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 A timetable printed in winter is out of date by summer.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 Santa Clarita sits at 34.4 degrees north, where daylight stays steadier through the year.

The evening moves even more than the morning. The earliest Maghrib of the year in Santa Clarita is 4:44 PM on 28 Nov 2026; the latest is 8:11 PM on 26 Jun 2026, a shift of 3 hours 27 minutes. On the longest day, 21 Jun 2026, sunset holds until 8:10 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 Santa Clarita runs 15 hours 53 minutes on 20 Jun 2026, from Fajr at 4:17 AM to Maghrib at 8:10 PM. The shortest fast is 11 hours 6 minutes on 17 Dec 2026. Solar noon moves too: Dhuhr ranges from 11:38 AM in one part of the year to 1:05 PM in another, following the equation of time. Measured against the other 218 cities and neighbourhoods we track, that longest fast ranks 133 of 218.

How Each Prayer Time Is Calculated in Santa Clarita

The Santa Clarita timetable on this page is calculated with the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) method, the convention followed by most mosques in the United States. It sets Fajr and Isha by a 15-degree depression angle of the sun, and Asr by the standard shadow rule; the Hanafi Asr is one tap away in the method selector. Each prayer is tied to a position of the sun, never to a fixed clock time. Today, 03 Nov 2026, is 23 Jumādá al-ūlá 1448.

Fajr (5:06 AM today)

Fajr is prayed at dawn, when light first appears across the horizon before sunrise. Today in Santa Clarita it begins at 5:06 AM and must be finished by sunrise (6:16 AM). Across the year, Santa Clarita's dawn moves from 4:16 AM at the earliest to 6:05 AM at the latest, so regular worshippers reset their Fajr alarm every few weeks.

Dhuhr (11:38 AM today)

The noon prayer begins once the sun has passed its peak. In Santa Clarita that works out to 11:38 AM today. Clock time and sun time differ here because Santa Clarita keeps America/Los_Angeles time from a position away from the zone's central meridian. On Fridays the congregational Jummah replaces Dhuhr.

Asr (2:37 PM today)

The standard Asr rule (followed by the Shafi'i, Maliki and Hanbali schools) starts Asr when a shadow grows as long as the object itself, past the noon shadow: 2:37 PM in Santa Clarita today. The Hanafi school uses twice the length, putting Asr roughly 45 to 65 minutes later; switch the method at the top of the page to see it. Pray Asr before the sunlight yellows late in the day.

Maghrib (4:59 PM today)

Maghrib's window opens at sunset, the instant the sun's disc drops fully out of sight: 4:59 PM today in Santa Clarita. For someone fasting, this is iftar, and the Sunnah is to break the fast at once, with dates or water, before praying.

Isha (6:09 PM today) and the Last Third of the Night

Isha starts when the red afterglow fades from the western sky: 6:09 PM tonight in Santa Clarita. 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 Santa Clarita, California

Every Friday, Jummah replaces Dhuhr, and it is the largest weekly gathering of Muslims in Santa Clarita. The verified list below covers 2 mosques and Islamic centers in Santa Clarita, with addresses, headed by Al-Ummah Center of Santa Clarita Valley at 18027 Sierra Hwy, Santa Clarita, CA 91351. Al-Ummah Center of Santa Clarita Valley publishes a Jummah time of Friday Prayer 1:15 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 Santa Clarita mosque is missing here, contact us with its address and Jummah time and we will add it.

Finding the Qibla Direction in Santa Clarita (23.47° North-East)

Muslims pray facing the Kaaba in Mecca, and from Santa Clarita that means facing 23.47° north-east from true north, measured the short way around the globe. The bearing comes from Santa Clarita's position (34.4° N, 118.5° W) set against the Kaaba's (21.4225° N, 39.8262° E). At about 8327 miles (13401 km), it is one of the longer qibla distances in the United States. From Santa Clarita, the great-circle line heads across Canada and the North Atlantic before descending toward Arabia.

At home or at work in Santa Clarita, 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 California: The Two Jump Days

Twice a year in Santa Clarita, the clock moves and every prayer time jumps with it. When daylight saving time begins on 08 Mar 2026, Fajr moves from 5:07 AM to 6:05 AM in a single night, a shift of just under an hour, and Maghrib moves from 5:56 PM to 6:56 PM. When standard time returns on 01 Nov 2026, Fajr moves from 6:03 AM back to 5:04 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 Santa Clarita

The day in Santa Clarita runs from Fajr at 5:06 AM to Isha at 6:09 PM; fill the spaces between with the authentic adhkar: dua after adhan, dua after wudu, the 33-times tasbih after prayer, and duas for hardship and gratitude, all in our dua library with Arabic text, transliteration and translation.