Prayer Times Amarillo, TX Today

How Prayer Times in Amarillo Change Through the Year

The sun runs Amarillo's prayer clock, and it never keeps the same hours for long. Fajr reaches its earliest point of 2026 on 10 Jun 2026, at 5:06 AM, and its latest on 08 Mar 2026, at 6:58 AM: a swing of 1 hour 52 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 A timetable printed in winter is out of date by summer.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 Amarillo sits at 35.2 degrees north, where daylight stays steadier through the year.

The evening moves even more than the morning. The earliest Maghrib of the year in Amarillo is 5:35 PM on 29 Nov 2026; the latest is 9:06 PM on 23 Jun 2026, a shift of 3 hours 31 minutes. On the longest day, 21 Jun 2026, sunset holds until 9:05 PM; on the shortest day, 21 Dec 2026, it comes at 5:39 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 Amarillo runs 15 hours 59 minutes, on 19 Jun 2026, from a Fajr of 5:06 AM to a Maghrib of 9:05 PM; the shortest is just 11 hours 3 minutes on 16 Dec 2026. Measured against the other 218 cities and neighbourhoods we track, that longest fast ranks 123 of 218. Solar noon drifts as well: Dhuhr moves between 12:31 PM and 1:58 PM across the year, following the equation of time.

At the height of summer the night almost disappears. Isha does not arrive until 10:32 PM on 20 Jun 2026, and the next Fajr follows only about 6 hours 34 minutes later. Worshippers in Amarillo 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 Amarillo

Prayer times follow the sun, so they shift a little every day. For Amarillo, 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 (5:59 AM today)

True dawn, the first white light spreading sideways along the eastern horizon, opens the Fajr window. In Amarillo today that moment is 5:59 AM. The window shuts at sunrise (7:11 AM); a Fajr prayed after that is qada, a missed prayer made up later. Because dawn in Amarillo swings between 5:06 AM and 6:58 AM over the year, a fixed alarm time never works for long.

Dhuhr (12:31 PM today)

The noon prayer begins once the sun has passed its peak. In Amarillo that works out to 12:31 PM today. Clock time and sun time differ here because Amarillo keeps America/Chicago time from a position away from the zone's central meridian. On Fridays the congregational Jummah replaces Dhuhr.

Asr (3:29 PM today)

Asr begins when the afternoon shadow of an object equals its height, on top of the shadow it cast at noon. In Amarillo today that is 3:29 PM by the standard (Shafi'i, Maliki, Hanbali) rule. The Hanafi school waits for double the height, around 45 to 65 minutes later; the method selector above shows that time. Pray it before the sun weakens and yellows near the horizon.

Maghrib (5:51 PM today)

Maghrib begins at sunset, the instant the sun's disc slips fully below the horizon: today that is 5:51 PM in Amarillo. On a fasting day this moment is iftar, and the Sunnah is to break the fast right away, with dates or water, and then pray Maghrib.

Isha (7:02 PM today) and the Last Third of the Night

Isha begins when the red twilight leaves the western sky, at 7:02 PM tonight in Amarillo. 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 Amarillo.

Friday Jummah and Mosques in Amarillo, Texas

Jummah, the Friday congregational prayer, replaces Dhuhr every week and is the largest regular gathering of Muslims in Amarillo. The mosque listed below serves Amarillo with its address, including Islamic Center of Amarillo at 601 Quail Creek Dr, Amarillo, TX. Islamic Center of Amarillo publishes a Jummah time of 2:15 PM. Other mosques set their own khutbah times, so confirm before you travel.

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

Finding the Qibla Direction in Amarillo (38.75° North-East)

Muslims pray facing the Kaaba in Mecca, and from Amarillo that means facing 38.75° north-east from true north, measured the short way around the globe. The bearing comes from Amarillo's position (35.2° N, 101.8° W) set against the Kaaba's (21.4225° N, 39.8262° E). At about 7786 miles (12531 km), it is one of the longer qibla distances in the United States. 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 Amarillo, 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 Texas: The Two Jump Days

Twice a year in Amarillo, the clock moves and every prayer time jumps with it. When daylight saving time begins on 08 Mar 2026, Fajr moves from 5:59 AM to 6:58 AM in a single night, a shift of just under an hour, and Maghrib moves from 6:48 PM to 7:49 PM. When standard time returns on 01 Nov 2026, Fajr moves from 6:57 AM back to 5:58 AM, and sunset prayers come an hour earlier in the evening. Every time on this page already follows the America/Chicago clock in force on that date, so no manual adjustment is ever needed.

Daily Adhkar and Duas for Amarillo

The day in Amarillo runs from Fajr at 5:59 AM to Isha at 7:02 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.