Prayer Times El Paso, TX Today

How Prayer Times in El Paso Change Through the Year

No two days in El Paso start at quite the same time. Across 2026, the earliest dawn prayer falls on 13 Jun 2026 at 4:39 AM, while the latest falls on 08 Mar 2026 at 6:18 AM. Between those dates Fajr travels 1 hour 39 minutes, which is why this page recalculates the timetable daily instead of printing a fixed one. The swing is gentler than in the northern states because El Paso sits at 31.8 degrees north, where daylight stays steadier through the year.

The evening moves even more than the morning. The earliest Maghrib of the year in El Paso is 5:02 PM on 26 Nov 2026; the latest is 8:15 PM on 21 Jun 2026, a shift of 3 hours 13 minutes. On the longest day, 21 Jun 2026, sunset holds until 8:15 PM; on the shortest day, 21 Dec 2026, it comes at 5:06 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 El Paso runs 15 hours 35 minutes, on 21 Jun 2026, from a Fajr of 4:40 AM to a Maghrib of 8:15 PM; the shortest is just 11 hours 17 minutes on 16 Dec 2026. Measured against the other 218 cities and neighbourhoods we track, that longest fast sits near the gentle end of the table, ranked 194 of 218. Solar noon drifts as well: Dhuhr moves between 11:50 AM and 1:17 PM across the year, following the equation of time.

How Each Prayer Time Is Calculated in El Paso

Prayer times follow the sun, so they shift a little every day. For El Paso, 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 (5:16 AM today)

True dawn, the first white light spreading sideways along the eastern horizon, opens the Fajr window. In El Paso today that moment is 5:16 AM. The window shuts at sunrise (6:24 AM); a Fajr prayed after that is qada, a missed prayer made up later. Because dawn in El Paso swings between 4:39 AM and 6:18 AM over the year, a fixed alarm time never works for long.

Dhuhr (11:50 AM today)

The noon prayer begins once the sun has passed its peak. In El Paso that works out to 11:50 AM today. Clock time and sun time differ here because El Paso keeps America/Denver time from a position away from the zone's central meridian. On Fridays the congregational Jummah replaces Dhuhr.

Asr (2:53 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: 2:53 PM in El Paso 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 (5:15 PM today)

Maghrib enters the moment the whole disc of the sun disappears below the horizon: 5:15 PM today in El Paso. 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 (6:23 PM today) and the Last Third of the Night

Isha begins when the red twilight leaves the western sky, at 6:23 PM tonight in El Paso. 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 El Paso.

Friday Jummah and Mosques in El Paso, Texas

Every Friday, Jummah replaces Dhuhr, and it is the largest weekly gathering of Muslims in El Paso. The verified list below covers 3 mosques and Islamic centers in El Paso, with addresses, headed by Islamic Center of El Paso at 143 Paragon Ln, El Paso, TX 79912. Each mosque sets its own khutbah time inside the Dhuhr window (Dhuhr today is 11:50 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 El Paso mosque is missing here, contact us with its address and Jummah time and we will add it.

Finding the Qibla Direction in El Paso (35.71° North-East)

Muslims pray facing the Kaaba in Mecca, and from El Paso that means facing 35.71° north-east from true north, measured the short way around the globe. The bearing comes from El Paso's position (31.8° N, 106.5° W) set against the Kaaba's (21.4225° N, 39.8262° E). At about 8139 miles (13098 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 El Paso, 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

El Paso moves its clocks twice a year, and the prayer timetable jumps with them. Daylight saving begins on 08 Mar 2026: Fajr leaps from 5:19 AM to 6:18 AM in one night, a shift of just under an hour, and Maghrib follows, from 6:08 PM to 7:09 PM. On 01 Nov 2026 the clocks fall back, and Fajr returns from 6:13 AM to 5:14 AM. Mosques in El Paso reset their iqamah boards on the same weekends. This page always follows the America/Denver time in force, so the times you see are already adjusted.

Daily Adhkar and Duas for El Paso

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.