Prayer Times San Antonio, TX Today

How Prayer Times in San Antonio Change Through the Year

The sun runs San Antonio's prayer clock, and it never keeps the same hours for long. Fajr reaches its earliest point of 2026 on 11 Jun 2026, at 5:16 AM, and its latest on 08 Mar 2026, at 6:47 AM: a swing of 1 hour 31 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 A timetable printed in winter is out of date by summer.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 San Antonio sits at 29.4 degrees north, where daylight stays steadier through the year.

Sunset moves even further. Maghrib in San Antonio is earliest on 26 Nov 2026 at 5:35 PM and latest on 26 Jun 2026 at 8:38 PM, a shift of 3 hours 3 minutes. On the longest day of the year, 21 Jun 2026, the sun sets at 8:37 PM; on the shortest day, 21 Dec 2026, it sets at 5:40 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 San Antonio runs 15 hours 20 minutes on 16 Jun 2026, from Fajr at 5:16 AM to Maghrib at 8:36 PM. The shortest fast is 11 hours 26 minutes on 15 Dec 2026. Solar noon moves too: Dhuhr ranges from 12:18 PM in one part of the year to 1:45 PM in another, following the equation of time. Measured against the other 218 cities and neighbourhoods we track, that longest fast sits near the gentle end of the table, ranked 205 of 218.

How Each Prayer Time Is Calculated in San Antonio

Prayer times follow the sun, so they shift a little every day. For San Antonio, 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 (5:42 AM today)

Fajr begins at true dawn, when the first white light spreads across the eastern horizon. In San Antonio today that is 5:42 AM, and the window closes at sunrise (6:49 AM). A prayer offered after sunrise counts as missed (qada), so the Fajr alarm matters most in summer: dawn in San Antonio ranges across the year from 5:16 AM at its earliest to 6:47 AM at its latest.

Dhuhr (12:18 PM today)

Dhuhr enters just after solar noon, the moment the sun stops climbing and starts down. Solar noon in San Antonio is not 12:00 on the clock, because the city sits inside the America/Chicago zone rather than on its meridian line: today it gives a Dhuhr of 12:18 PM. On Fridays, Jummah takes Dhuhr's place.

Asr (3:24 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: 3:24 PM in San Antonio 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 (5:46 PM today)

Maghrib's window opens at sunset, the instant the sun's disc drops fully out of sight: 5:46 PM today in San Antonio. For someone fasting, this is iftar, and the Sunnah is to break the fast at once, with dates or water, before praying.

Isha (6:53 PM today) and the Last Third of the Night

Isha starts when the red afterglow fades from the western sky: 6:53 PM tonight in San Antonio. 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 San Antonio, Texas

Every Friday, Jummah replaces Dhuhr, and it is the largest weekly gathering of Muslims in San Antonio. The verified list below covers 5 mosques and Islamic centers in San Antonio, with addresses, headed by Islamic Center of San Antonio at 8638 Fairhaven St, San Antonio, TX 78229. Islamic Center of San Antonio publishes a Jummah time of 12:30 PM & 2:00 PM; Masjid Al-Ikhlas publishes a Jummah time of 1:00 PM & 2:00 PM; Masjid Beit El-Maqdes publishes a Jummah time of 1:00 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 San Antonio mosque is missing here, contact us with its address and Jummah time and we will add it.

Finding the Qibla Direction in San Antonio (43.18° North-East)

Prayer is valid only when faced toward the Kaaba in Mecca, and from San Antonio the shortest path over the Earth's surface, the great-circle route, points 43.18° north-east from true north. The bearing is calculated from San Antonio's coordinates (29.4° N, 98.5° W) to the Kaaba (21.4225° N, 39.8262° E). At about 7961 miles (12812 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.

At home or at work in San Antonio, 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 Texas: The Two Jump Days

San Antonio moves its clocks twice a year, and the prayer timetable jumps with them. Daylight saving begins on 08 Mar 2026: Fajr leaps from 5:48 AM to 6:47 AM in one night, a shift of just under an hour, and Maghrib follows, from 6:37 PM to 7:38 PM. On 01 Nov 2026 the clocks fall back, and Fajr returns from 6:40 AM to 5:41 AM. Mosques in San Antonio reset their iqamah boards on the same weekends. This page always follows the America/Chicago time in force, so the times you see are already adjusted.

Daily Adhkar and Duas for San Antonio

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.