Prayer Times Dearborn, MI Today

How Prayer Times in Dearborn Change Through the Year

Prayer times in Dearborn are set by the sun, so they move every single day. The biggest daily swing is at dawn. The earliest Fajr of 2026 in Dearborn falls on 15 Jun 2026 at 4:10 AM, while the latest Fajr arrives on 31 Oct 2026 at 6:46 AM. That is a difference of 2 hours 36 minutes across the year, which is why a timetable printed in January cannot be reused in June. The swing is wide because Dearborn sits at 42.3 degrees north, far enough from the equator for the seasons to move the sun's path a long way.

Sunset moves even further. Maghrib in Dearborn is earliest on 04 Dec 2026 at 5:00 PM and latest on 25 Jun 2026 at 9:14 PM, a shift of 4 hours 14 minutes. On the longest day of the year, 21 Jun 2026, the sun sets at 9:13 PM; on the shortest day, 21 Dec 2026, it sets at 5:03 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 Dearborn runs 17 hours 2 minutes on 16 Jun 2026, from Fajr at 4:10 AM to Maghrib at 9:12 PM. The shortest fast is 10 hours 29 minutes on 19 Dec 2026. Solar noon moves too: Dhuhr ranges from 12:16 PM in one part of the year to 1:43 PM in another, following the equation of time. Measured against the other 218 cities and neighbourhoods we track, only 28 have a longer longest fast, which puts Dearborn in the longest-fast quarter of the country.

At the height of summer the night almost disappears. Isha does not arrive until 10:59 PM on 23 Jun 2026, and the next Fajr follows only about 5 hours 11 minutes later. Worshippers in Dearborn 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 Dearborn

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

Fajr (5:50 AM today)

Fajr is prayed at dawn, when light first appears across the horizon before sunrise. Today in Dearborn it begins at 5:50 AM and must be finished by sunrise (7:09 AM). Across the year, Dearborn's dawn moves from 4:10 AM at the earliest to 6:46 AM at the latest, so regular worshippers reset their Fajr alarm every few weeks.

Dhuhr (12:16 PM today)

The noon prayer begins once the sun has passed its peak. In Dearborn that works out to 12:16 PM today. Clock time and sun time differ here because Dearborn keeps America/Detroit time from a position away from the zone's central meridian. On Fridays the congregational Jummah replaces Dhuhr.

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

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

Isha (6:42 PM today) and the Last Third of the Night

Isha starts when the red afterglow fades from the western sky: 6:42 PM tonight in Dearborn. 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 Dearborn, Michigan

Every Friday, Jummah replaces Dhuhr, and it is the largest weekly gathering of Muslims in Dearborn. The verified list below covers 4 mosques and Islamic centers in Dearborn, with addresses, headed by Islamic Center of America at 19500 Ford Rd, Dearborn, MI 48128. Each mosque sets its own khutbah time inside the Dhuhr window (Dhuhr today is 12:16 PM), so check the mosque's own notice board or website before you go, and arrive early: Friday parking fills fast.

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

Finding the Qibla Direction in Dearborn (51.93° North-East)

Muslims pray facing the Kaaba in Mecca, and from Dearborn that means facing 51.93° north-east from true north, measured the short way around the globe. The bearing comes from Dearborn's position (42.3° N, 83.2° W) set against the Kaaba's (21.4225° N, 39.8262° E). At about 6731 miles (10832 km), that puts Dearborn 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 Dearborn, 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 Michigan: The Two Jump Days

Dearborn moves its clocks twice a year, and the prayer timetable jumps with them. Daylight saving begins on 08 Mar 2026: Fajr leaps from 5:41 AM to 6:40 AM in one night, a shift of just under an hour, and Maghrib follows, from 6:30 PM to 7:31 PM. On 01 Nov 2026 the clocks fall back, and Fajr returns from 6:46 AM to 5:47 AM. Mosques in Dearborn reset their iqamah boards on the same weekends. This page always follows the America/Detroit time in force, so the times you see are already adjusted.

Daily Adhkar and Duas for Dearborn

The day in Dearborn runs from Fajr at 5:50 AM to Isha at 6:42 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.