Prayer Times Yonkers, NY Today

How Prayer Times in Yonkers Change Through the Year

No two days in Yonkers start at quite the same time. Across 2026, the earliest dawn prayer falls on 12 Jun 2026 at 3:43 AM, while the latest falls on 31 Oct 2026 at 6:08 AM. Between those dates Fajr travels 2 hours 25 minutes, which is why this page recalculates the timetable daily instead of printing a fixed one. The swing is wide because Yonkers sits at 40.9 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 Yonkers is earliest on 05 Dec 2026 at 4:27 PM and latest on 24 Jun 2026 at 8:32 PM, a shift of 4 hours 5 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 4:31 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 Yonkers runs 16 hours 48 minutes, on 19 Jun 2026, from a Fajr of 3:43 AM to a Maghrib of 8:31 PM; the shortest is just 10 hours 36 minutes on 18 Dec 2026. Measured against the other 218 cities and neighbourhoods we track, only 51 have a longer longest fast, which puts Yonkers in the longest-fast quarter of the country. 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 Yonkers

Each prayer begins at a defined position of the sun, not at a fixed clock time. PrayerTimesUSA calculates the Yonkers timetable with the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) method, the standard used by most mosques in the United States: Fajr and Isha at a sun angle of 15 degrees, Asr by the standard shadow rule, with the Hanafi Asr shown through the method selector. Today's Hijri date in Yonkers is 23 Jumādá al-ūlá 1448 (03 Nov 2026).

Fajr (5:11 AM today)

Fajr begins at true dawn, when the first white light spreads across the eastern horizon. In Yonkers today that is 5:11 AM, and the window closes at sunrise (6:29 AM). A prayer offered after sunrise counts as missed (qada), so the Fajr alarm matters most in summer: dawn in Yonkers ranges across the year from 3:43 AM at its earliest to 6:08 AM at its latest.

Dhuhr (11:39 AM today)

Dhuhr enters just after solar noon, the moment the sun stops climbing and starts down. Solar noon in Yonkers 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 11:39 AM. On Fridays, Jummah takes Dhuhr's place.

Asr (2:27 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: 2:27 PM in Yonkers 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 (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 Yonkers. 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

Isha starts when the red afterglow fades from the western sky: 6:06 PM tonight in Yonkers. The middle of the Islamic night falls halfway between Maghrib and tomorrow's Fajr, and the last third of the night after that midpoint is the Tahajjud time. Find tonight's exact last third with our Tahajjud calculator.

Friday Jummah and Mosques in Yonkers, New York

Jummah, the Friday congregational prayer, replaces Dhuhr every week and is the largest regular gathering of Muslims in Yonkers. The mosque listed below serves Yonkers with its address, including Andalusia Islamic Center at 380 Walnut St, Yonkers, NY 10701. 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.

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

Finding the Qibla Direction in Yonkers (58.55° North-East)

Muslims pray facing the Kaaba in Mecca, and from Yonkers that means facing 58.55° north-east from true north, measured the short way around the globe. The bearing comes from Yonkers's position (40.9° N, 73.9° W) set against the Kaaba's (21.4225° N, 39.8262° E). At about 6391 miles (10286 km), that puts Yonkers 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 Yonkers, 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

Yonkers 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 6:04 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 6:08 AM to 5:09 AM. Mosques in Yonkers 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 Yonkers

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.