Prayer Times Shreveport, LA Today

How Prayer Times in Shreveport Change Through the Year

Prayer times in Shreveport are set by the sun, so they move every single day. The biggest daily swing is at dawn. The earliest Fajr of 2026 in Shreveport falls on 13 Jun 2026 at 4:45 AM, while the latest Fajr arrives on 08 Mar 2026 at 6:27 AM. That is a difference of 1 hour 42 minutes across the year, which is why a timetable printed in January cannot be reused in June. The swing is gentler than in the northern states because Shreveport sits at 32.5 degrees north, where daylight stays steadier through the year.

Sunset moves even further. Maghrib in Shreveport is earliest on 28 Nov 2026 at 5:09 PM and latest on 21 Jun 2026 at 8:26 PM, a shift of 3 hours 17 minutes. On the longest day of the year, 21 Jun 2026, the sun sets at 8:26 PM; on the shortest day, 21 Dec 2026, it sets at 5:14 PM.

Anyone who keeps the voluntary fasts, on Mondays and Thursdays or the white days of each month, feels the range most. The longest fast of 2026 in Shreveport runs 15 hours 40 minutes, on 21 Jun 2026, from a Fajr of 4:46 AM to a Maghrib of 8:26 PM; the shortest is just 11 hours 14 minutes on 16 Dec 2026. Measured against the other 218 cities and neighbourhoods we track, that longest fast sits near the gentle end of the table, ranked 188 of 218. Solar noon drifts as well: Dhuhr moves between 11:59 AM and 1:26 PM across the year, following the equation of time.

How Each Prayer Time Is Calculated in Shreveport

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

Fajr (5:25 AM today)

Fajr is the dawn prayer, and its time begins at true dawn, the first horizontal light in the east. Today in Shreveport that is 5:25 AM. Pray it before sunrise (6:34 AM); after sunrise it counts as qada (missed). Through the year in Shreveport, dawn moves between 4:45 AM and 6:27 AM, so the Fajr alarm needs resetting with the seasons.

Dhuhr (11:59 AM today)

Dhuhr begins just after the sun passes its highest point and starts to descend. Clock noon and solar noon rarely match, because Shreveport sits inside the America/Chicago zone rather than on its meridian, so Dhuhr today is 11:59 AM. On Fridays, Jummah replaces Dhuhr.

Asr (3:01 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 3:01 PM in Shreveport 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 (5:23 PM today)

Maghrib's window opens at sunset, the instant the sun's disc drops fully out of sight: 5:23 PM today in Shreveport. For someone fasting, this is iftar, and the Sunnah is to break the fast at once, with dates or water, before praying.

Isha (6:32 PM today) and the Last Third of the Night

Isha starts when the red afterglow fades from the western sky: 6:32 PM tonight in Shreveport. 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 Shreveport, Louisiana

Jummah, the Friday congregational prayer, replaces Dhuhr every week and is the largest regular gathering of Muslims in Shreveport. The mosque listed below serves Shreveport with its address, including MCS Islamic Center (Muslim Community of Shreveport) at 9204 Youree Dr, Shreveport, LA 71115. Each mosque sets its own khutbah time inside the Dhuhr window (Dhuhr today is 11:59 AM), so check the mosque's own notice board or website before you go, and arrive early: Friday parking fills fast.

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

Finding the Qibla Direction in Shreveport (45.92° North-East)

Prayer is valid only when faced toward the Kaaba in Mecca, and from Shreveport the shortest path over the Earth's surface, the great-circle route, points 45.92° north-east from true north. The bearing is calculated from Shreveport's coordinates (32.5° N, 93.8° W) to the Kaaba (21.4225° N, 39.8262° E). At about 7611 miles (12249 km), it is one of the longer qibla distances in the United States. 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 Shreveport, 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 Louisiana: The Two Jump Days

Twice a year in Shreveport, the clock moves and every prayer time jumps with it. When daylight saving time begins on 08 Mar 2026, Fajr moves from 5:28 AM to 6:27 AM in a single night, a shift of just under an hour, and Maghrib moves from 6:17 PM to 7:18 PM. When standard time returns on 01 Nov 2026, Fajr moves from 6:23 AM back to 5:24 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 Shreveport

Pair the prayers with the recorded supplications: the dua after the adhan, the dua after wudu, tasbih of 33 after every prayer, and duas for relief and gratitude. The full set, with Arabic, transliteration and translation, is in our dua library.