Prayer Times Buffalo, NY Today

How Prayer Times in Buffalo Change Through the Year

No two days in Buffalo start at quite the same time. Across 2026, the earliest dawn prayer falls on 14 Jun 2026 at 3:49 AM, while the latest falls on 31 Oct 2026 at 6:29 AM. Between those dates Fajr travels 2 hours 40 minutes, which is why this page recalculates the timetable daily instead of printing a fixed one. The swing is wide because Buffalo sits at 42.9 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 Buffalo is earliest on 04 Dec 2026 at 4:41 PM and latest on 20 Jun 2026 at 8:58 PM, a shift of 4 hours 17 minutes. On the longest day of the year, 21 Jun 2026, the sun sets at 8:58 PM; on the shortest day, 21 Dec 2026, it sets at 4:44 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 Buffalo runs 17 hours 9 minutes, on 20 Jun 2026, from a Fajr of 3:49 AM to a Maghrib of 8:58 PM; the shortest is just 10 hours 26 minutes on 21 Dec 2026. Measured against the other 218 cities and neighbourhoods we track, only 23 have a longer longest fast, which puts Buffalo in the longest-fast quarter of the country. Solar noon drifts as well: Dhuhr moves between 11:59 AM and 1:26 PM across the year, following the equation of time.

Summer nights are short. The latest Isha of the year falls on 23 Jun 2026 at 10:46 PM, and Fajr follows only a few hours later, so the night prayers crowd together in June and July. Many worshippers in Buffalo 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 Buffalo

The Buffalo timetable on this page is calculated with the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) method, the convention followed by most mosques in the United States. It sets Fajr and Isha by a 15-degree depression angle of the sun, and Asr by the standard shadow rule; the Hanafi Asr is one tap away in the method selector. Each prayer is tied to a position of the sun, never to a fixed clock time. Today, 03 Nov 2026, is 23 Jumādá al-ūlá 1448.

Fajr (5:33 AM today)

Fajr is the dawn prayer, and its time begins at true dawn, the first horizontal light in the east. Today in Buffalo that is 5:33 AM. Pray it before sunrise (6:52 AM); after sunrise it counts as qada (missed). Through the year in Buffalo, dawn moves between 3:49 AM and 6:29 AM, so the Fajr alarm needs resetting with the seasons.

Dhuhr (11:59 AM today)

Dhuhr enters just after solar noon, the moment the sun stops climbing and starts down. Solar noon in Buffalo is not 12:00 on the clock, because the city sits inside the America/New_York zone rather than on its meridian line: today it gives a Dhuhr of 11:59 AM. On Fridays, Jummah takes Dhuhr's place.

Asr (2:43 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: 2:43 PM in Buffalo 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 (5:05 PM today)

Maghrib enters the moment the whole disc of the sun disappears below the horizon: 5:05 PM today in Buffalo. 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 (6:25 PM today) and the Last Third of the Night

Isha begins when the last red glow leaves the western sky: 6:25 PM tonight in Buffalo. 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 Buffalo is on our Tahajjud calculator.

Friday Jummah and Mosques in Buffalo, New York

Jummah, the Friday congregational prayer, replaces Dhuhr every week and is the largest regular gathering of Muslims in Buffalo. 2 mosques and Islamic centers in Buffalo are listed below with their addresses, including Buffalo Muslim Center at 995 Fillmore Ave, Buffalo, NY 14211. Each mosque sets its own khutbah time inside the Dhuhr window (Dhuhr today is 11:59 AM), so check the mosque's own notice board or website before you go, and arrive early: Friday parking fills fast.

Alongside Jummah, these mosques hold the five daily congregational prayers, weekend Quran classes for children, and taraweeh in Ramadan. Know a Buffalo mosque that is not listed? Send us its details and we will add it with its address and Jummah time.

Finding the Qibla Direction in Buffalo (54.99° North-East)

Prayer is valid only when faced toward the Kaaba in Mecca, and from Buffalo the shortest path over the Earth's surface, the great-circle route, points 54.99° north-east from true north. The bearing is calculated from Buffalo's coordinates (42.9° N, 78.9° W) to the Kaaba (21.4225° N, 39.8262° E). At about 6532 miles (10512 km), that puts Buffalo 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.

At home or at work in Buffalo, the Qibla Compass on your phone reads the bearing directly. Calibrate it with a slow figure-eight motion, and keep it clear of metal furniture and electronics that drag the needle. Inside a mosque, the mihrab already marks the direction.

Daylight Saving Time in New York: The Two Jump Days

Buffalo moves its clocks twice a year, and the prayer timetable jumps with them. Daylight saving begins on 08 Mar 2026: Fajr leaps from 5:24 AM to 6:22 AM in one night, a shift of just under an hour, and Maghrib follows, from 6:12 PM to 7:14 PM. On 01 Nov 2026 the clocks fall back, and Fajr returns from 6:29 AM to 5:30 AM. Mosques in Buffalo 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 Buffalo

The day in Buffalo runs from Fajr at 5:33 AM to Isha at 6:25 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.