Prayer Times St. Petersburg, FL Today

How Prayer Times in St. Petersburg Change Through the Year

No two days in St. Petersburg start at quite the same time. Across 2026, the earliest dawn prayer falls on 06 Jun 2026 at 5:19 AM, while the latest falls on 08 Mar 2026 at 6:44 AM. Between those dates Fajr travels 1 hour 25 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 St. Petersburg sits at 27.8 degrees north, where daylight stays steadier through the year.

Sunset moves even further. Maghrib in St. Petersburg is earliest on 25 Nov 2026 at 5:35 PM and latest on 29 Jun 2026 at 8:31 PM, a shift of 2 hours 56 minutes. On the longest day of the year, 21 Jun 2026, the sun sets at 8:29 PM; on the shortest day, 21 Dec 2026, it sets at 5:40 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 St. Petersburg runs 15 hours 10 minutes on 17 Jun 2026, from Fajr at 5:19 AM to Maghrib at 8:29 PM. The shortest fast is 11 hours 32 minutes on 17 Dec 2026. Solar noon moves too: Dhuhr ranges from 12:14 PM in one part of the year to 1:41 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 208 of 218.

How Each Prayer Time Is Calculated in St. Petersburg

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 St. Petersburg 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 St. Petersburg is 23 Jumādá al-ūlá 1448 (03 Nov 2026).

Fajr (5:37 AM today)

Fajr is prayed at dawn, when light first appears across the horizon before sunrise. Today in St. Petersburg it begins at 5:37 AM and must be finished by sunrise (6:43 AM). Across the year, St. Petersburg's dawn moves from 5:19 AM at the earliest to 6:44 AM at the latest, so regular worshippers reset their Fajr alarm every few weeks.

Dhuhr (12:14 PM today)

The noon prayer begins once the sun has passed its peak. In St. Petersburg that works out to 12:14 PM today. Clock time and sun time differ here because St. Petersburg keeps America/New_York time from a position away from the zone's central meridian. On Fridays the congregational Jummah replaces Dhuhr.

Asr (3:23 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: 3:23 PM in St. Petersburg 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 (5:45 PM today)

Maghrib's window opens at sunset, the instant the sun's disc drops fully out of sight: 5:45 PM today in St. Petersburg. For someone fasting, this is iftar, and the Sunnah is to break the fast at once, with dates or water, before praying.

Isha (6:51 PM today) and the Last Third of the Night

Isha starts when the red afterglow fades from the western sky: 6:51 PM tonight in St. Petersburg. 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 St. Petersburg, Florida

Jummah, the Friday congregational prayer, replaces Dhuhr every week and is the largest regular gathering of Muslims in St. Petersburg. The mosque listed below serves St. Petersburg with its address, including Islamic Society of Saint Petersburg (Masjid Al Sunnah) at 2401 5th St S, St. Petersburg, FL 33705. Each mosque sets its own khutbah time inside the Dhuhr window (Dhuhr today is 12:14 PM), so check the mosque's own notice board or website before you go, and arrive early: Friday parking fills fast.

Most mosques in St. Petersburg also hold the five daily prayers in congregation, Quran classes for children, and taraweeh through Ramadan. If your mosque in St. Petersburg is missing from the list, contact us and we will add it with its address and Jummah time.

Finding the Qibla Direction in St. Petersburg (54.71° North-East)

Muslims pray facing the Kaaba in Mecca, and from St. Petersburg that means facing 54.71° north-east from true north, measured the short way around the globe. The bearing comes from St. Petersburg's position (27.8° N, 82.6° W) set against the Kaaba's (21.4225° N, 39.8262° E). Along that bearing, the Kaaba is about 7309 miles (11763 km) from St. Petersburg 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 St. Petersburg, 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 St. Petersburg, the clock moves and every prayer time jumps with it. When daylight saving time begins on 08 Mar 2026, Fajr moves from 5:45 AM to 6:44 AM in a single night, a shift of just under an hour, and Maghrib moves from 6:35 PM to 7:35 PM. When standard time returns on 01 Nov 2026, Fajr moves from 6:35 AM back to 5:36 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 St. Petersburg

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.