Prayer Times Boston, MA Today

How Prayer Times in Boston Change Through the Year

The sun runs Boston's prayer clock, and it never keeps the same hours for long. Fajr reaches its earliest point of 2026 on 12 Jun 2026, at 3:22 AM, and its latest on 31 Oct 2026, at 5:58 AM: a swing of 2 hours 36 minutes between the two. A timetable printed in winter is out of date by summer. The swing is wide because Boston sits at 42.4 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 Boston is 4:11 PM on 08 Dec 2026; the latest is 8:25 PM on 21 Jun 2026, a shift of 4 hours 14 minutes. On the longest day, 21 Jun 2026, sunset holds until 8:25 PM; on the shortest day, 21 Dec 2026, it comes at 4:15 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 Boston runs 17 hours 3 minutes, on 21 Jun 2026, from a Fajr of 3:22 AM to a Maghrib of 8:25 PM; the shortest is just 10 hours 29 minutes on 18 Dec 2026. Measured against the other 218 cities and neighbourhoods we track, only 26 have a longer longest fast, which puts Boston in the longest-fast quarter of the country. Solar noon drifts as well: Dhuhr moves between 11:28 AM and 12:55 PM across the year, following the equation of time.

How Each Prayer Time Is Calculated in Boston

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

Fajr (5:01 AM today)

Fajr is prayed at dawn, when light first appears across the horizon before sunrise. Today in Boston it begins at 5:01 AM and must be finished by sunrise (6:20 AM). Across the year, Boston's dawn moves from 3:22 AM at the earliest to 5:58 AM at the latest, so regular worshippers reset their Fajr alarm every few weeks.

Dhuhr (11:28 AM today)

The noon prayer begins once the sun has passed its peak. In Boston that works out to 11:28 AM today. Clock time and sun time differ here because Boston keeps America/New_York time from a position away from the zone's central meridian. On Fridays the congregational Jummah replaces Dhuhr.

Asr (2:12 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: 2:12 PM in Boston 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 (4:35 PM today)

Maghrib enters the moment the whole disc of the sun disappears below the horizon: 4:35 PM today in Boston. 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 (5:54 PM today) and the Last Third of the Night

Isha begins when the last red glow leaves the western sky: 5:54 PM tonight in Boston. Halfway between Maghrib and the next Fajr falls Islamic midnight, and the last third of the night after it is set aside for Tahajjud, the voluntary night prayer. Tonight's last third for Boston is on our Tahajjud calculator.

Friday Jummah and Mosques in Boston, Massachusetts

Every Friday, Jummah replaces Dhuhr, and it is the largest weekly gathering of Muslims in Boston. The verified list below covers 4 mosques and Islamic centers in Boston, with addresses, headed by Islamic Society of Boston Cultural Center at 100 Malcolm X Blvd, Roxbury, MA 02120. Each mosque sets its own khutbah time inside the Dhuhr window (Dhuhr today is 11:28 AM), so check the mosque's own notice board or website before you go, and arrive early: Friday parking fills fast.

Beyond Friday, expect daily congregational prayers, children's Quran classes and taraweeh in Ramadan at these centers. Mosque not listed? Send us the details and we will add it with its address and Jummah time.

Finding the Qibla Direction in Boston (60.43° North-East)

Muslims pray facing the Kaaba in Mecca, and from Boston that means facing 60.43° north-east from true north, measured the short way around the globe. The bearing comes from Boston's position (42.4° N, 71.1° W) set against the Kaaba's (21.4225° N, 39.8262° E). At about 6215 miles (10002 km), that puts Boston among the closer American places to Mecca. 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 Boston, 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 Massachusetts: The Two Jump Days

Twice a year in Boston, the clock moves and every prayer time jumps with it. When daylight saving time begins on 08 Mar 2026, Fajr moves from 4:53 AM to 5:51 AM in a single night, a shift of just under an hour, and Maghrib moves from 5:41 PM to 6:43 PM. When standard time returns on 01 Nov 2026, Fajr moves from 5:58 AM back to 4:59 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 Boston

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.