Prayer Times Bay Ridge, NY Today

How Prayer Times in Bay Ridge Change Through the Year

Prayer times in Bay Ridge are set by the sun, so they move every single day. The biggest daily swing is at dawn. The earliest Fajr of 2026 in Bay Ridge falls on 14 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 Bay Ridge sits at 40.6 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 Bay Ridge is earliest on 02 Dec 2026 at 4:29 PM and latest on 21 Jun 2026 at 8:31 PM, a shift of 4 hours 2 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 Bay Ridge runs 16 hours 45 minutes on 17 Jun 2026, from Fajr at 3:45 AM to Maghrib at 8:30 PM. The shortest fast is 10 hours 38 minutes on 17 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 68 of 218.

How Each Prayer Time Is Calculated in Bay Ridge

Prayer times follow the sun, so they shift a little every day. For Bay Ridge, 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 (5:12 AM today)

True dawn, the first white light spreading sideways along the eastern horizon, opens the Fajr window. In Bay Ridge 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 Bay Ridge 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 Bay Ridge sits within the America/New_York zone, away from its central meridian: today Dhuhr in Bay Ridge 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 Bay Ridge 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 Bay Ridge. 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 Bay Ridge. 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 Bay Ridge.

Friday Jummah and Mosques in Bay Ridge, New York

Every Friday, Jummah replaces Dhuhr, and it is the largest weekly gathering of Muslims in Bay Ridge. The verified list below covers 2 mosques and Islamic centers in Bay Ridge, with addresses, headed by Islamic Society of Bay Ridge at 6807 5th Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11220. Each mosque sets its own khutbah time inside the Dhuhr window (Dhuhr today is 11:40 AM), so check the mosque's own notice board or website before you go, and arrive early: Friday parking fills fast.

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

Finding the Qibla Direction in Bay Ridge (58.47° North-East)

Muslims pray facing the Kaaba in Mecca, and from Bay Ridge that means facing 58.47° north-east from true north, measured the short way around the globe. The bearing comes from Bay Ridge's position (40.6° N, 74.0° W) set against the Kaaba's (21.4225° N, 39.8262° E). At about 6408 miles (10313 km), that puts Bay Ridge 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 Bay Ridge, 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 York: The Two Jump Days

Bay Ridge moves its clocks twice a year, and the prayer timetable jumps with them. Daylight saving begins on 08 Mar 2026: Fajr leaps from 5:06 AM to 6:04 AM in one night, a shift of just under an hour, and Maghrib follows, from 5:54 PM to 6:55 PM. On 01 Nov 2026 the clocks fall back, and Fajr returns from 6:09 AM to 5:10 AM. Mosques in Bay Ridge reset their iqamah boards on the same weekends. This page always follows the America/New_York time in force, so the times you see are already adjusted.

Daily Adhkar and Duas for Bay Ridge

The day in Bay Ridge runs from Fajr at 5:12 AM to Isha at 6:07 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.