Prayer Times Omaha, NE Today

How Prayer Times in Omaha Change Through the Year

The sun runs Omaha's prayer clock, and it never keeps the same hours for long. Fajr reaches its earliest point of 2026 on 12 Jun 2026, at 4:09 AM, and its latest on 31 Oct 2026, at 6:37 AM: a swing of 2 hours 28 minutes between the two. A timetable printed in winter is out of date by summer. The swing is wide because Omaha sits at 41.3 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 Omaha is 4:54 PM on 07 Dec 2026; the latest is 9:01 PM on 22 Jun 2026, a shift of 4 hours 7 minutes. On the longest day, 21 Jun 2026, sunset holds until 9:00 PM; on the shortest day, 21 Dec 2026, it comes at 4:58 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 Omaha runs 16 hours 51 minutes, on 18 Jun 2026, from a Fajr of 4:09 AM to a Maghrib of 9:00 PM; the shortest is just 10 hours 35 minutes on 17 Dec 2026. Measured against the other 218 cities and neighbourhoods we track, only 45 have a longer longest fast, which puts Omaha in the longest-fast quarter of the country. Solar noon drifts as well: Dhuhr moves between 12:07 PM and 1:34 PM across the year, following the equation of time.

Summer nights are short. The latest Isha of the year falls on 19 Jun 2026 at 10:42 PM, and Fajr follows only a few hours later, so the night prayers crowd together in June and July. Many worshippers in Omaha plan sleep around this stretch, and some mosques combine or adjust summer night schedules, so check your local mosque's board in midsummer.

How Each Prayer Time Is Calculated in Omaha

Prayer times follow the sun, so they shift a little every day. For Omaha, 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 (5:40 AM today)

Fajr begins at true dawn, when the first white light spreads across the eastern horizon. In Omaha today that is 5:40 AM, and the window closes at sunrise (6:58 AM). A prayer offered after sunrise counts as missed (qada), so the Fajr alarm matters most in summer: dawn in Omaha ranges across the year from 4:09 AM at its earliest to 6:37 AM at its latest.

Dhuhr (12:07 PM today)

Dhuhr enters just after solar noon, the moment the sun stops climbing and starts down. Solar noon in Omaha 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 12:07 PM. On Fridays, Jummah takes Dhuhr's place.

Asr (2:54 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: 2:54 PM in Omaha 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 (5:16 PM today)

Maghrib's window opens at sunset, the instant the sun's disc drops fully out of sight: 5:16 PM today in Omaha. For someone fasting, this is iftar, and the Sunnah is to break the fast at once, with dates or water, before praying.

Isha (6:34 PM today) and the Last Third of the Night

When the red twilight has gone from the west, Isha begins: 6:34 PM tonight in Omaha. The night that follows is measured from Maghrib to Fajr; its last third, after Islamic midnight, is the Tahajjud time. Use the Tahajjud calculator to find tonight's last third in Omaha.

Friday Jummah and Mosques in Omaha, Nebraska

Every Friday, Jummah replaces Dhuhr, and it is the largest weekly gathering of Muslims in Omaha. The verified mosque below serves Omaha, with its address, headed by Islamic Center of Omaha. Each mosque sets its own khutbah time inside the Dhuhr window (Dhuhr today is 12:07 PM), 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 Omaha (42.27° North-East)

Muslims pray facing the Kaaba in Mecca, and from Omaha that means facing 42.27° north-east from true north, measured the short way around the globe. The bearing comes from Omaha's position (41.3° N, 95.9° W) set against the Kaaba's (21.4225° N, 39.8262° E). Along that bearing, the Kaaba is about 7262 miles (11687 km) from Omaha 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 Omaha, 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 Nebraska: The Two Jump Days

Omaha moves its clocks twice a year, and the prayer timetable jumps with them. Daylight saving begins on 08 Mar 2026: Fajr leaps from 5:33 AM to 6:31 AM in one night, a shift of just under an hour, and Maghrib follows, from 6:22 PM to 7:23 PM. On 01 Nov 2026 the clocks fall back, and Fajr returns from 6:37 AM to 5:38 AM. Mosques in Omaha reset their iqamah boards on the same weekends. This page always follows the America/Chicago time in force, so the times you see are already adjusted.

Daily Adhkar and Duas for Omaha

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.