Prayer Times Cedar Rapids, IA Today

How Prayer Times in Cedar Rapids Change Through the Year

No two days in Cedar Rapids start at quite the same time. Across 2026, the earliest dawn prayer falls on 12 Jun 2026 at 3:47 AM, while the latest falls on 31 Oct 2026 at 6:20 AM. Between those dates Fajr travels 2 hours 33 minutes, which is why this page recalculates the timetable daily instead of printing a fixed one. The swing is wide because Cedar Rapids sits at 42.0 degrees north, far enough from the equator for the seasons to move the sun's path a long way.

The evening moves even more than the morning. The earliest Maghrib of the year in Cedar Rapids is 4:35 PM on 05 Dec 2026; the latest is 8:46 PM on 20 Jun 2026, a shift of 4 hours 11 minutes. On the longest day, 21 Jun 2026, sunset holds until 8:46 PM; on the shortest day, 21 Dec 2026, it comes at 4:38 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 Cedar Rapids runs 16 hours 59 minutes on 20 Jun 2026, from Fajr at 3:47 AM to Maghrib at 8:46 PM. The shortest fast is 10 hours 31 minutes on 18 Dec 2026. Solar noon moves too: Dhuhr ranges from 11:50 AM in one part of the year to 1:17 PM in another, following the equation of time. Measured against the other 218 cities and neighbourhoods we track, only 33 have a longer longest fast, which puts Cedar Rapids in the longest-fast quarter of the country.

At the height of summer the night almost disappears. Isha does not arrive until 10:30 PM on 20 Jun 2026, and the next Fajr follows only about 5 hours 17 minutes later. Worshippers in Cedar Rapids guard their sleep through June and July, and some mosques adjust or combine the summer night prayers, so check your mosque's board in midsummer.

How Each Prayer Time Is Calculated in Cedar Rapids

Prayer times follow the sun, so they shift a little every day. For Cedar Rapids, 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 (5:23 AM today)

Fajr begins at true dawn, when the first white light spreads across the eastern horizon. In Cedar Rapids today that is 5:23 AM, and the window closes at sunrise (6:42 AM). A prayer offered after sunrise counts as missed (qada), so the Fajr alarm matters most in summer: dawn in Cedar Rapids ranges across the year from 3:47 AM at its earliest to 6:20 AM at its latest.

Dhuhr (11:50 AM today)

Dhuhr begins just after the sun passes its highest point and starts to descend. Clock noon and solar noon rarely match, because Cedar Rapids sits inside the America/Chicago zone rather than on its meridian, so Dhuhr today is 11:50 AM. On Fridays, Jummah replaces Dhuhr.

Asr (2:36 PM today)

Asr begins when an object's shadow equals its height beyond the noon shadow. That standard rule (Shafi'i, Maliki and Hanbali) gives 2:36 PM in Cedar Rapids today. The Hanafi rule waits until the shadow is twice the height, which falls roughly 45 to 65 minutes later; use the calculation method selector at the top of this page to view Hanafi Asr. Finish Asr before the sun turns yellow and weak near the horizon.

Maghrib (4:58 PM today)

Maghrib's window opens at sunset, the instant the sun's disc drops fully out of sight: 4:58 PM today in Cedar Rapids. For someone fasting, this is iftar, and the Sunnah is to break the fast at once, with dates or water, before praying.

Isha (6:17 PM today) and the Last Third of the Night

Isha starts when the red afterglow fades from the western sky: 6:17 PM tonight in Cedar Rapids. 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 Cedar Rapids, Iowa

Jummah, the Friday congregational prayer, replaces Dhuhr every week and is the largest regular gathering of Muslims in Cedar Rapids. 2 mosques and Islamic centers in Cedar Rapids are listed below with their addresses, including Islamic Center of Cedar Rapids at 2999 1st Ave SW, Cedar Rapids, IA 52405. Each mosque sets its own khutbah time inside the Dhuhr window (Dhuhr today is 11:50 AM), 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 Cedar Rapids mosque is missing here, contact us with its address and Jummah time and we will add it.

Finding the Qibla Direction in Cedar Rapids (45.55° North-East)

Muslims pray facing the Kaaba in Mecca, and from Cedar Rapids that means facing 45.55° north-east from true north, measured the short way around the globe. The bearing comes from Cedar Rapids's position (42.0° N, 91.7° W) set against the Kaaba's (21.4225° N, 39.8262° E). Along that bearing, the Kaaba is about 7073 miles (11383 km) from Cedar Rapids 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 Cedar Rapids, 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 Iowa: The Two Jump Days

Twice a year in Cedar Rapids, the clock moves and every prayer time jumps with it. When daylight saving time begins on 08 Mar 2026, Fajr moves from 5:16 AM to 6:14 AM in a single night, a shift of just under an hour, and Maghrib moves from 6:04 PM to 7:05 PM. When standard time returns on 01 Nov 2026, Fajr moves from 6:20 AM back to 5:21 AM, and sunset prayers come an hour earlier in the evening. Every time on this page already follows the America/Chicago clock in force on that date, so no manual adjustment is ever needed.

Daily Adhkar and Duas for Cedar Rapids

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.