Prayer Times Syracuse, NY Today

How Prayer Times in Syracuse Change Through the Year

The sun runs Syracuse's prayer clock, and it never keeps the same hours for long. Fajr reaches its earliest point of 2026 on 13 Jun 2026, at 3:37 AM, and its latest on 31 Oct 2026, at 6:18 AM: a swing of 2 hours 41 minutes between the two. A timetable printed in winter is out of date by summer. The swing is wide because Syracuse sits at 43.0 degrees north, far enough from the equator for the seasons to move the sun's path a long way.

The evening moves even more than the morning. The earliest Maghrib of the year in Syracuse is 4:30 PM on 02 Dec 2026; the latest is 8:48 PM on 21 Jun 2026, a shift of 4 hours 18 minutes. On the longest day, 21 Jun 2026, sunset holds until 8:48 PM; on the shortest day, 21 Dec 2026, it comes at 4:33 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 Syracuse runs 17 hours 11 minutes, on 21 Jun 2026, from a Fajr of 3:37 AM to a Maghrib of 8:48 PM; the shortest is just 10 hours 26 minutes on 17 Dec 2026. Measured against the other 218 cities and neighbourhoods we track, only 19 have a longer longest fast, which puts Syracuse in the longest-fast quarter of the country. Solar noon drifts as well: Dhuhr moves between 11:48 AM and 1:15 PM across the year, following the equation of time.

At the height of summer the night almost disappears. Isha does not arrive until 10:36 PM on 21 Jun 2026, and the next Fajr follows only about 5 hours 1 minutes later. Worshippers in Syracuse guard their sleep through June and July, and some mosques adjust or combine the summer night prayers, so check your mosque's board in midsummer.

How Each Prayer Time Is Calculated in Syracuse

The Syracuse 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 (5:22 AM today)

Fajr is prayed at dawn, when light first appears across the horizon before sunrise. Today in Syracuse it begins at 5:22 AM and must be finished by sunrise (6:42 AM). Across the year, Syracuse's dawn moves from 3:37 AM at the earliest to 6:18 AM at the latest, so regular worshippers reset their Fajr alarm every few weeks.

Dhuhr (11:48 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 Syracuse sits within the America/New_York zone, away from its central meridian: today Dhuhr in Syracuse is 11:48 AM. On Fridays the Jummah congregation takes the place of Dhuhr.

Asr (2:31 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 2:31 PM in Syracuse 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 (4:54 PM today)

Maghrib enters the moment the whole disc of the sun disappears below the horizon: 4:54 PM today in Syracuse. 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 (6:14 PM today) and the Last Third of the Night

Isha begins when the red twilight leaves the western sky, at 6:14 PM tonight in Syracuse. 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 Syracuse.

Friday Jummah and Mosques in Syracuse, New York

Every Friday, Jummah replaces Dhuhr, and it is the largest weekly gathering of Muslims in Syracuse. The verified list below covers 3 mosques and Islamic centers in Syracuse, with addresses, headed by Masjid Bilal of Syracuse at 507 Pond St, Syracuse, NY 13208. Each mosque sets its own khutbah time inside the Dhuhr window (Dhuhr today is 11:48 AM), so check the mosque's own notice board or website before you go, and arrive early: Friday parking fills fast.

These mosques also run weekend schools, community iftars in Ramadan and the five daily prayers in congregation. If a Syracuse mosque is missing here, contact us with its address and Jummah time and we will add it.

Finding the Qibla Direction in Syracuse (56.92° North-East)

Prayer is valid only when faced toward the Kaaba in Mecca, and from Syracuse the shortest path over the Earth's surface, the great-circle route, points 56.92° north-east from true north. The bearing is calculated from Syracuse's coordinates (43.0° N, 76.1° W) to the Kaaba (21.4225° N, 39.8262° E). At about 6411 miles (10317 km), that puts Syracuse 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 Syracuse, 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

Twice a year in Syracuse, the clock moves and every prayer time jumps with it. When daylight saving time begins on 08 Mar 2026, Fajr moves from 5:13 AM to 6:11 AM in a single night, a shift of just under an hour, and Maghrib moves from 6:01 PM to 7:03 PM. When standard time returns on 01 Nov 2026, Fajr moves from 6:18 AM back to 5:20 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 Syracuse

Complete the prayers with the authentic supplications: the dua after adhan, dua after wudu, the 33-times tasbih after each prayer, and duas for hardship and gratitude. Read them in our dua library with Arabic text, transliteration and translation.