Prayer Times Fayetteville, NC Today

How Prayer Times in Fayetteville Change Through the Year

The sun runs Fayetteville's prayer clock, and it never keeps the same hours for long. Fajr reaches its earliest point of 2026 on 09 Jun 2026, at 4:35 AM, and its latest on 08 Mar 2026, at 6:26 AM: a swing of 1 hour 51 minutes between the two. A timetable printed in winter is out of date by summer. The swing is gentler than in the northern states because Fayetteville sits at 35.1 degrees north, where daylight stays steadier through the year.

Sunset moves even further. Maghrib in Fayetteville is earliest on 04 Dec 2026 at 5:03 PM and latest on 25 Jun 2026 at 8:34 PM, a shift of 3 hours 31 minutes. On the longest day of the year, 21 Jun 2026, the sun sets at 8:33 PM; on the shortest day, 21 Dec 2026, it sets at 5:08 PM.

For anyone fasting outside Ramadan, such as the Monday and Thursday fasts or the white days each month, the longest fast of 2026 in Fayetteville runs 15 hours 58 minutes on 20 Jun 2026, from Fajr at 4:35 AM to Maghrib at 8:33 PM. The shortest fast is 11 hours 3 minutes on 18 Dec 2026. Solar noon moves too: Dhuhr ranges from 11:59 AM in one part of the year to 1:26 PM in another, following the equation of time. Measured against the other 218 cities and neighbourhoods we track, that longest fast ranks 125 of 218.

How Each Prayer Time Is Calculated in Fayetteville

Prayer times follow the sun, so they shift a little every day. For Fayetteville, this page uses the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) method, the one most US mosques follow: a 15-degree sun angle for Fajr and Isha, the standard shadow rule for Asr, and the Hanafi Asr available in the method selector. Today, 03 Nov 2026, is 23 Jumādá al-ūlá 1448 on the Hijri calendar.

Fajr (5:27 AM today)

Fajr begins at true dawn, when the first white light spreads across the eastern horizon. In Fayetteville today that is 5:27 AM, and the window closes at sunrise (6:39 AM). A prayer offered after sunrise counts as missed (qada), so the Fajr alarm matters most in summer: dawn in Fayetteville ranges across the year from 4:35 AM at its earliest to 6:26 AM at its latest.

Dhuhr (11:59 AM today)

Dhuhr begins just after the sun passes its highest point and starts to descend. Clock noon and solar noon rarely match, because Fayetteville sits inside the America/New_York zone rather than on its meridian, so Dhuhr today is 11:59 AM. On Fridays, Jummah replaces Dhuhr.

Asr (2:58 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 2:58 PM in Fayetteville 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 (5:19 PM today)

Maghrib's window opens at sunset, the instant the sun's disc drops fully out of sight: 5:19 PM today in Fayetteville. For someone fasting, this is iftar, and the Sunnah is to break the fast at once, with dates or water, before praying.

Isha (6:30 PM today) and the Last Third of the Night

Isha starts when the red afterglow fades from the western sky: 6:30 PM tonight in Fayetteville. 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 Fayetteville, North Carolina

Jummah, the Friday congregational prayer, replaces Dhuhr every week and is the largest regular gathering of Muslims in Fayetteville. 2 mosques and Islamic centers in Fayetteville are listed below with their addresses, including Islamic Center of Fayetteville at 2415 Rosehill Rd, Fayetteville, NC 28301. Islamic Center of Fayetteville publishes a Jummah time of 1:30 PM; Masjid Omar Ibn Sayyid publishes a Jummah time of Jumu'ah Prayer: Every Friday at 1:15 pm EST. Other mosques set their own khutbah times, so confirm before you travel.

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

Finding the Qibla Direction in Fayetteville (55.76° North-East)

Muslims pray facing the Kaaba in Mecca, and from Fayetteville that means facing 55.76° north-east from true north, measured the short way around the globe. The bearing comes from Fayetteville's position (35.1° N, 78.9° W) set against the Kaaba's (21.4225° N, 39.8262° E). Along that bearing, the Kaaba is about 6839 miles (11007 km) from Fayetteville in a straight line over the Earth's curved surface. 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 Fayetteville, 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 North Carolina: The Two Jump Days

Fayetteville moves its clocks twice a year, and the prayer timetable jumps with them. Daylight saving begins on 08 Mar 2026: Fajr leaps from 5:28 AM to 6:26 AM in one night, a shift of just under an hour, and Maghrib follows, from 6:16 PM to 7:17 PM. On 01 Nov 2026 the clocks fall back, and Fajr returns from 6:25 AM to 5:26 AM. Mosques in Fayetteville 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 Fayetteville

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.