Prayer Times Tampa, FL Today

How Prayer Times in Tampa Change Through the Year

No two days in Tampa start at quite the same time. Across 2026, the earliest dawn prayer falls on 11 Jun 2026 at 5:17 AM, while the latest falls on 08 Mar 2026 at 6:43 AM. Between those dates Fajr travels 1 hour 26 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 Tampa sits at 28.0 degrees north, where daylight stays steadier through the year.

Sunset moves even further. Maghrib in Tampa is earliest on 25 Nov 2026 at 5:34 PM and latest on 23 Jun 2026 at 8:30 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 5:39 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 Tampa runs 15 hours 11 minutes on 19 Jun 2026, from Fajr at 5:18 AM to Maghrib at 8:29 PM. The shortest fast is 11 hours 32 minutes on 14 Dec 2026. Solar noon moves too: Dhuhr ranges from 12:13 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 207 of 218.

How Each Prayer Time Is Calculated in Tampa

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

Fajr (5:37 AM today)

Fajr is the dawn prayer, and its time begins at true dawn, the first horizontal light in the east. Today in Tampa that is 5:37 AM. Pray it before sunrise (6:42 AM); after sunrise it counts as qada (missed). Through the year in Tampa, dawn moves between 5:17 AM and 6:43 AM, so the Fajr alarm needs resetting with the seasons.

Dhuhr (12:13 PM today)

Dhuhr enters just after solar noon, the moment the sun stops climbing and starts down. Solar noon in Tampa 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 12:13 PM. On Fridays, Jummah takes Dhuhr's place.

Asr (3:22 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: 3:22 PM in Tampa 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 (5:44 PM today)

Maghrib enters the moment the whole disc of the sun disappears below the horizon: 5:44 PM today in Tampa. 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 (6:50 PM today) and the Last Third of the Night

Isha begins when the red twilight leaves the western sky, at 6:50 PM tonight in Tampa. 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 Tampa.

Friday Jummah and Mosques in Tampa, Florida

Jummah, the Friday congregational prayer, replaces Dhuhr every week and is the largest regular gathering of Muslims in Tampa. 3 mosques and Islamic centers in Tampa are listed below with their addresses, including Islamic Society of Tampa Bay at 7326 E Sligh Ave, Tampa, FL 33610. Each mosque sets its own khutbah time inside the Dhuhr window (Dhuhr today is 12:13 PM), 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 Tampa mosque is missing here, contact us with its address and Jummah time and we will add it.

Finding the Qibla Direction in Tampa (54.78° North-East)

Prayer is valid only when faced toward the Kaaba in Mecca, and from Tampa the shortest path over the Earth's surface, the great-circle route, points 54.78° north-east from true north. The bearing is calculated from Tampa's coordinates (28.0° N, 82.5° W) to the Kaaba (21.4225° N, 39.8262° E). Along that bearing, the Kaaba is about 7292 miles (11736 km) from Tampa 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 Tampa, 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 Tampa, the clock moves and every prayer time jumps with it. When daylight saving time begins on 08 Mar 2026, Fajr moves from 5:44 AM to 6:43 AM in a single night, a shift of just under an hour, and Maghrib moves from 6:34 PM to 7:35 PM. When standard time returns on 01 Nov 2026, Fajr moves from 6:35 AM back to 5:35 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 Tampa

The day in Tampa runs from Fajr at 5:37 AM to Isha at 6:50 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.