Prayer Times Jacksonville, FL Today

How Prayer Times in Jacksonville Change Through the Year

The sun runs Jacksonville's prayer clock, and it never keeps the same hours for long. Fajr reaches its earliest point of 2026 on 06 Jun 2026, at 5:06 AM, and its latest on 08 Mar 2026, at 6:39 AM: a swing of 1 hour 33 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 A timetable printed in winter is out of date by summer.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 Jacksonville sits at 30.3 degrees north, where daylight stays steadier through the year.

Sunset moves even further. Maghrib in Jacksonville is earliest on 25 Nov 2026 at 5:26 PM and latest on 27 Jun 2026 at 8:33 PM, a shift of 3 hours 7 minutes. On the longest day of the year, 21 Jun 2026, the sun sets at 8:32 PM; on the shortest day, 21 Dec 2026, it sets at 5:30 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 Jacksonville runs 15 hours 25 minutes on 17 Jun 2026, from Fajr at 5:06 AM to Maghrib at 8:31 PM. The shortest fast is 11 hours 22 minutes on 21 Dec 2026. Solar noon moves too: Dhuhr ranges from 12:10 PM in one part of the year to 1:37 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 198 of 218.

How Each Prayer Time Is Calculated in Jacksonville

Prayer times follow the sun, so they shift a little every day. For Jacksonville, 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 (5:35 AM today)

Fajr begins at true dawn, when the first white light spreads across the eastern horizon. In Jacksonville today that is 5:35 AM, and the window closes at sunrise (6:43 AM). A prayer offered after sunrise counts as missed (qada), so the Fajr alarm matters most in summer: dawn in Jacksonville ranges across the year from 5:06 AM at its earliest to 6:39 AM at its latest.

Dhuhr (12:10 PM today)

Dhuhr enters just after solar noon, the moment the sun stops climbing and starts down. Solar noon in Jacksonville is not 12:00 on the clock, because the city sits inside the America/New_York zone rather than on its meridian line: today it gives a Dhuhr of 12:10 PM. On Fridays, Jummah takes Dhuhr's place.

Asr (3:16 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: 3:16 PM in Jacksonville 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 (5:37 PM today)

Maghrib enters the moment the whole disc of the sun disappears below the horizon: 5:37 PM today in Jacksonville. It is also the iftar moment on fasting days, and the Sunnah is to break the fast promptly with dates or water, then pray.

Isha (6:45 PM today) and the Last Third of the Night

Isha begins when the red twilight leaves the western sky, at 6:45 PM tonight in Jacksonville. 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 Jacksonville.

Friday Jummah and Mosques in Jacksonville, Florida

Jummah, the Friday congregational prayer, replaces Dhuhr every week and is the largest regular gathering of Muslims in Jacksonville. 4 mosques and Islamic centers in Jacksonville are listed below with their addresses, including Islamic Center of Northeast Florida at 2333 St Johns Bluff Rd S, Jacksonville, FL 32246. Al-Amir Islamic Center publishes a Jummah time of Khutbah 1:30 PM, Iqamah 1:45 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 Jacksonville mosque is missing here, contact us with its address and Jummah time and we will add it.

Finding the Qibla Direction in Jacksonville (54.76° North-East)

Muslims pray facing the Kaaba in Mecca, and from Jacksonville that means facing 54.76° north-east from true north, measured the short way around the globe. The bearing comes from Jacksonville's position (30.3° N, 81.7° W) set against the Kaaba's (21.4225° N, 39.8262° E). Along that bearing, the Kaaba is about 7158 miles (11520 km) from Jacksonville in a straight line over the Earth's curved surface. It surprises many people that the direction is north-east rather than south-east: from North America, the shortest line to Mecca crosses the North Atlantic, not the Pacific.

To face the qibla at home or at work in Jacksonville, 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 Florida: The Two Jump Days

Twice a year in Jacksonville, the clock moves and every prayer time jumps with it. When daylight saving time begins on 08 Mar 2026, Fajr moves from 5:40 AM to 6:39 AM in a single night, a shift of just under an hour, and Maghrib moves from 6:30 PM to 7:30 PM. When standard time returns on 01 Nov 2026, Fajr moves from 6:33 AM back to 5:34 AM, and sunset prayers come an hour earlier in the evening. Every time on this page already follows the America/New_York clock in force on that date, so no manual adjustment is ever needed.

Daily Adhkar and Duas for Jacksonville

The day in Jacksonville runs from Fajr at 5:35 AM to Isha at 6:45 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.