Prayer Times St. Paul, MN Today

How Prayer Times in St. Paul Change Through the Year

No two days in St. Paul start at quite the same time. Across 2026, the earliest dawn prayer falls on 14 Jun 2026 at 3:29 AM, while the latest falls on 31 Oct 2026 at 6:27 AM. Between those dates Fajr travels 2 hours 58 minutes, which is why this page recalculates the timetable daily instead of printing a fixed one. The swing is wide because St. Paul sits at 45.0 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 St. Paul is 4:31 PM on 04 Dec 2026; the latest is 9:03 PM on 21 Jun 2026, a shift of 4 hours 32 minutes. On the longest day, 21 Jun 2026, sunset holds until 9:03 PM; on the shortest day, 21 Dec 2026, it comes at 4:34 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 St. Paul runs 17 hours 34 minutes on 21 Jun 2026, from Fajr at 3:29 AM to Maghrib at 9:03 PM. The shortest fast is 10 hours 15 minutes on 20 Dec 2026. Solar noon moves too: Dhuhr ranges from 11:56 AM in one part of the year to 1:23 PM in another, following the equation of time. Measured against the other 218 cities and neighbourhoods we track, only 10 have a longer longest fast, which puts St. Paul 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 19 Jun 2026, and the next Fajr follows only about 4 hours 30 minutes later. Worshippers in St. Paul 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 St. Paul

Prayer times follow the sun, so they shift a little every day. For St. Paul, 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 (5:31 AM today)

Fajr begins at true dawn, when the first white light spreads across the eastern horizon. In St. Paul today that is 5:31 AM, and the window closes at sunrise (6:54 AM). A prayer offered after sunrise counts as missed (qada), so the Fajr alarm matters most in summer: dawn in St. Paul ranges across the year from 3:29 AM at its earliest to 6:27 AM at its latest.

Dhuhr (11:56 AM today)

Dhuhr enters just after solar noon, the moment the sun stops climbing and starts down. Solar noon in St. Paul is not 12:00 on the clock, because the city sits inside the America/Chicago zone rather than on its meridian line: today it gives a Dhuhr of 11:56 AM. On Fridays, Jummah takes Dhuhr's place.

Asr (2:35 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: 2:35 PM in St. Paul 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 (4:58 PM today)

Maghrib enters the moment the whole disc of the sun disappears below the horizon: 4:58 PM today in St. Paul. 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 (6:20 PM today) and the Last Third of the Night

Isha begins when the last red glow leaves the western sky: 6:20 PM tonight in St. Paul. 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 St. Paul is on our Tahajjud calculator.

Friday Jummah and Mosques in St. Paul, Minnesota

Every Friday, Jummah replaces Dhuhr, and it is the largest weekly gathering of Muslims in St. Paul. The verified list below covers 2 mosques and Islamic centers in St. Paul, with addresses, headed by Daawah Islamic Center. Each mosque sets its own khutbah time inside the Dhuhr window (Dhuhr today is 11:56 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 St. Paul (43.99° North-East)

Muslims pray facing the Kaaba in Mecca, and from St. Paul that means facing 43.99° north-east from true north, measured the short way around the globe. The bearing comes from St. Paul's position (45.0° N, 93.1° W) set against the Kaaba's (21.4225° N, 39.8262° E). Along that bearing, the Kaaba is about 6977 miles (11229 km) from St. Paul 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 St. Paul, 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 Minnesota: The Two Jump Days

Twice a year in St. Paul, the clock moves and every prayer time jumps with it. When daylight saving time begins on 08 Mar 2026, Fajr moves from 5:19 AM to 6:17 AM in a single night, a shift of just under an hour, and Maghrib moves from 6:08 PM to 7:09 PM. When standard time returns on 01 Nov 2026, Fajr moves from 6:27 AM back to 5:29 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 St. Paul

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.