Prayer Times Queens, NY Today

How Prayer Times in Queens Change Through the Year

The sun runs Queens'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 A timetable printed in winter is out of date by summer.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 Queens 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 Queens is earliest on 02 Dec 2026 at 4:28 PM and latest on 25 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 Queens runs 16 hours 46 minutes, on 19 Jun 2026, from a Fajr of 3:44 AM to a Maghrib of 8:30 PM; the shortest is just 10 hours 37 minutes on 21 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 Queens

The Queens 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 (5:11 AM today)

Fajr is prayed at dawn, when light first appears across the horizon before sunrise. Today in Queens it begins at 5:11 AM and must be finished by sunrise (6:28 AM). Across the year, Queens's dawn moves from 3:44 AM at the earliest to 6:08 AM at the latest, so regular worshippers reset their Fajr alarm every few weeks.

Dhuhr (11:39 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 Queens sits within the America/New_York zone, away from its central meridian: today Dhuhr in Queens is 11:39 AM. On Fridays the Jummah congregation takes the place of Dhuhr.

Asr (2:27 PM today)

Asr begins when an object's shadow equals its height beyond the noon shadow. That standard rule (Shafi'i, Maliki and Hanbali) gives 2:27 PM in Queens today. The Hanafi rule waits until the shadow is twice the height, which falls roughly 45 to 65 minutes later; use the calculation method selector at the top of this page to view Hanafi Asr. Finish Asr before the sun turns yellow and weak near the horizon.

Maghrib (4:49 PM today)

Maghrib's window opens at sunset, the instant the sun's disc drops fully out of sight: 4:49 PM today in Queens. For someone fasting, this is iftar, and the Sunnah is to break the fast at once, with dates or water, before praying.

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 Queens. 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 Queens.

Friday Jummah and Mosques in Queens, New York

Every Friday, Jummah replaces Dhuhr, and it is the largest weekly gathering of Muslims in Queens. The verified list below covers 2 mosques and Islamic centers in Queens, with addresses, headed by Jamaica Muslim Center. 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 Queens (58.62° North-East)

Muslims pray facing the Kaaba in Mecca, and from Queens that means facing 58.62° north-east from true north, measured the short way around the globe. The bearing comes from Queens's position (40.7° N, 73.8° W) set against the Kaaba's (21.4225° N, 39.8262° E). At about 6394 miles (10290 km), that puts Queens 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 Queens, 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

Queens 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 6:55 PM. On 01 Nov 2026 the clocks fall back, and Fajr returns from 6:08 AM to 5:09 AM. Mosques in Queens 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 Queens

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.