Prayer Times Jamaica, NY Today

How Prayer Times in Jamaica Change Through the Year

The sun runs Jamaica's prayer clock, and it never keeps the same hours for long. Fajr reaches its earliest point of 2026 on 12 Jun 2026, at 3:44 AM, and its latest on 31 Oct 2026, at 6:08 AM: a swing of 2 hours 24 minutes between the two. A timetable printed in winter is out of date by summer. The swing is wide because Jamaica 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 Jamaica is earliest on 01 Dec 2026 at 4:28 PM and latest on 27 Jun 2026 at 8:31 PM, a shift of 4 hours 3 minutes. On the longest day of the year, 21 Jun 2026, the sun sets at 8:30 PM; on the shortest day, 21 Dec 2026, it sets at 4:31 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 Jamaica runs 16 hours 46 minutes, on 20 Jun 2026, from a Fajr of 3:44 AM to a Maghrib of 8:30 PM; the shortest is just 10 hours 38 minutes on 16 Dec 2026. Measured against the other 218 cities and neighbourhoods we track, that longest fast ranks 58 of 218. Solar noon drifts as well: Dhuhr moves between 11:39 AM and 1:06 PM across the year, following the equation of time.

How Each Prayer Time Is Calculated in Jamaica

Why do the times on this page move a little every day? Because each of the five prayers begins at a set position of the sun. PrayerTimesUSA works out the Jamaica schedule with the ISNA method used across most of North America: Fajr and Isha at 15 degrees of sun depression, Asr by the standard shadow rule, with the Hanafi Asr in the method selector above. The Hijri date today in Jamaica is 23 Jumādá al-ūlá 1448 (03 Nov 2026).

Fajr (5:11 AM today)

Fajr is the dawn prayer, and its time begins at true dawn, the first horizontal light in the east. Today in Jamaica that is 5:11 AM. Pray it before sunrise (6:28 AM); after sunrise it counts as qada (missed). Through the year in Jamaica, dawn moves between 3:44 AM and 6:08 AM, so the Fajr alarm needs resetting with the seasons.

Dhuhr (11:39 AM today)

Dhuhr begins just after the sun passes its highest point and starts to descend. Clock noon and solar noon rarely match, because Jamaica sits inside the America/New_York zone rather than on its meridian, so Dhuhr today is 11:39 AM. On Fridays, Jummah replaces Dhuhr.

Asr (2:27 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 2:27 PM in Jamaica 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 (4:49 PM today)

At 4:49 PM today in Jamaica, the sun sets and Maghrib begins. Its window is the shortest of the day, so it is prayed promptly. On fasting days this same moment is iftar: break the fast first, following the Sunnah, with dates or water.

Isha (6:06 PM today) and the Last Third of the Night

When the red twilight has gone from the west, Isha begins: 6:06 PM tonight in Jamaica. 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 Jamaica.

Friday Jummah and Mosques in Jamaica, New York

Jummah, the Friday congregational prayer, replaces Dhuhr every week and is the largest regular gathering of Muslims in Jamaica. 3 mosques and Islamic centers in Jamaica are listed below with their addresses, including Jamiatul Uloom New York at 165-23 Hillside Ave (2nd Floor), Jamaica, NY 11432. Each mosque sets its own khutbah time inside the Dhuhr window (Dhuhr today is 11:39 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 Jamaica (58.62° North-East)

Muslims pray facing the Kaaba in Mecca, and from Jamaica that means facing 58.62° north-east from true north, measured the short way around the globe. The bearing comes from Jamaica's position (40.7° N, 73.8° W) set against the Kaaba's (21.4225° N, 39.8262° E). At about 6396 miles (10293 km), that puts Jamaica 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 Jamaica, 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

Jamaica moves its clocks twice a year, and the prayer timetable jumps with them. Daylight saving begins on 08 Mar 2026: Fajr leaps from 5:05 AM to 6:03 AM in one night, a shift of just under an hour, and Maghrib follows, from 5:53 PM to 6:54 PM. On 01 Nov 2026 the clocks fall back, and Fajr returns from 6:08 AM to 5:09 AM. Mosques in Jamaica 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 Jamaica

The day in Jamaica runs from Fajr at 5:11 AM to Isha at 6:06 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.