Prayer Times Jersey City, NJ Today

How Prayer Times in Jersey City Change Through the Year

Prayer times in Jersey City are set by the sun, so they move every single day. The biggest daily swing is at dawn. The earliest Fajr of 2026 in Jersey City falls on 12 Jun 2026 at 3:45 AM, while the latest Fajr arrives on 31 Oct 2026 at 6:09 AM. That is a difference of 2 hours 24 minutes across the year, which is why a timetable printed in January cannot be reused in June. The swing is wide because Jersey City sits at 40.7 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 Jersey City is earliest on 01 Dec 2026 at 4:29 PM and latest on 27 Jun 2026 at 8:32 PM, a shift of 4 hours 3 minutes. On the longest day of the year, 21 Jun 2026, the sun sets at 8:31 PM; on the shortest day, 21 Dec 2026, it sets at 4:32 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 Jersey City runs 16 hours 46 minutes on 20 Jun 2026, from Fajr at 3:45 AM to Maghrib at 8:31 PM. The shortest fast is 10 hours 38 minutes on 16 Dec 2026. Solar noon moves too: Dhuhr ranges from 11:40 AM in one part of the year to 1:07 PM in another, following the equation of time. Measured against the other 218 cities and neighbourhoods we track, that longest fast ranks 58 of 218.

How Each Prayer Time Is Calculated in Jersey City

Each prayer begins at a defined position of the sun, not at a fixed clock time. PrayerTimesUSA calculates the Jersey City timetable with the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) method, the standard used by most mosques in the United States: Fajr and Isha at a sun angle of 15 degrees, Asr by the standard shadow rule, with the Hanafi Asr shown through the method selector. Today's Hijri date in Jersey City is 23 Jumādá al-ūlá 1448 (03 Nov 2026).

Fajr (5:12 AM today)

True dawn, the first white light spreading sideways along the eastern horizon, opens the Fajr window. In Jersey City today that moment is 5:12 AM. The window shuts at sunrise (6:29 AM); a Fajr prayed after that is qada, a missed prayer made up later. Because dawn in Jersey City swings between 3:45 AM and 6:09 AM over the year, a fixed alarm time never works for long.

Dhuhr (11:40 AM today)

Dhuhr starts once the sun has crossed its peak and begun to decline. Solar noon is not the same as 12:00 on the clock, because Jersey City sits within the America/New_York zone, away from its central meridian: today Dhuhr in Jersey City is 11:40 AM. On Fridays the Jummah congregation takes the place of Dhuhr.

Asr (2:28 PM today)

Under the standard rule used by the Shafi'i, Maliki and Hanbali schools, Asr opens when a shadow stretches to the object's own length beyond the noon shadow. That gives 2:28 PM in Jersey City today. Hanafi Asr, at twice the length, lands roughly 45 to 65 minutes later; flip the method selector at the top of the page to see it. The time to pray Asr runs out as the light yellows toward sunset.

Maghrib (4:50 PM today)

Maghrib begins at sunset, the instant the sun's disc slips fully below the horizon: today that is 4:50 PM in Jersey City. On a fasting day this moment is iftar, and the Sunnah is to break the fast right away, with dates or water, and then pray Maghrib.

Isha (6:07 PM today) and the Last Third of the Night

Isha begins when the red twilight leaves the western sky, at 6:07 PM tonight in Jersey City. Islamic midnight is the midpoint between Maghrib and the next Fajr, and the last third of the night after it is the time of Tahajjud, the voluntary night prayer. Use our Tahajjud calculator to find tonight's last third for Jersey City.

Friday Jummah and Mosques in Jersey City, New Jersey

Every Friday, Jummah replaces Dhuhr, and it is the largest weekly gathering of Muslims in Jersey City. The verified list below covers 2 mosques and Islamic centers in Jersey City, with addresses, headed by Islamic Center of Jersey City at 17 Park St, Jersey City, NJ 07304. Islamic Center of Jersey City publishes a Jummah time of 1:00 PM, 2:15 PM, 3:30 PM. Other mosques set their own khutbah times, so confirm before you travel.

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

Finding the Qibla Direction in Jersey City (58.43° North-East)

Prayer is valid only when faced toward the Kaaba in Mecca, and from Jersey City the shortest path over the Earth's surface, the great-circle route, points 58.43° north-east from true north. The bearing is calculated from Jersey City's coordinates (40.7° N, 74.1° W) to the Kaaba (21.4225° N, 39.8262° E). At about 6407 miles (10311 km), that puts Jersey City 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 Jersey City, 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 New Jersey: The Two Jump Days

Twice a year in Jersey City, the clock moves and every prayer time jumps with it. When daylight saving time begins on 08 Mar 2026, Fajr moves from 5:06 AM to 6:04 AM in a single night, a shift of just under an hour, and Maghrib moves from 5:54 PM to 6:55 PM. When standard time returns on 01 Nov 2026, Fajr moves from 6:09 AM back to 5:10 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 Jersey City

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.