Prayer Times Salt Lake City, UT Today

How Prayer Times in Salt Lake City Change Through the Year

Prayer times in Salt Lake City are set by the sun, so they move every single day. The biggest daily swing is at dawn. The earliest Fajr of 2026 in Salt Lake City falls on 12 Jun 2026 at 4:16 AM, while the latest Fajr arrives on 31 Oct 2026 at 6:40 AM. That is a difference of 2 hours 24 minutes across the year, which is why a timetable printed in January cannot be reused in June. The swing is wide because Salt Lake City sits at 40.8 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 Salt Lake City is earliest on 02 Dec 2026 at 5:00 PM and latest on 22 Jun 2026 at 9:03 PM, a shift of 4 hours 3 minutes. On the longest day of the year, 21 Jun 2026, the sun sets at 9:02 PM; on the shortest day, 21 Dec 2026, it sets at 5:03 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 Salt Lake City runs 16 hours 46 minutes, on 18 Jun 2026, from a Fajr of 4:16 AM to a Maghrib of 9:02 PM; the shortest is just 10 hours 37 minutes on 19 Dec 2026. Measured against the other 218 cities and neighbourhoods we track, that longest fast ranks 58 of 218. Solar noon drifts as well: Dhuhr moves between 12:11 PM and 1:38 PM across the year, following the equation of time.

At the height of summer the night almost disappears. Isha does not arrive until 10:43 PM on 22 Jun 2026, and the next Fajr follows only about 5 hours 33 minutes later. Worshippers in Salt Lake City 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 Salt Lake City

Why do the times on this page move a little every day? Because each of the five prayers begins at a set position of the sun. PrayerTimesUSA works out the Salt Lake City schedule with the ISNA method used across most of North America: Fajr and Isha at 15 degrees of sun depression, Asr by the standard shadow rule, with the Hanafi Asr in the method selector above. The Hijri date today in Salt Lake City is 23 Jumādá al-ūlá 1448 (03 Nov 2026).

Fajr (5:43 AM today)

Fajr is prayed at dawn, when light first appears across the horizon before sunrise. Today in Salt Lake City it begins at 5:43 AM and must be finished by sunrise (7:00 AM). Across the year, Salt Lake City's dawn moves from 4:16 AM at the earliest to 6:40 AM at the latest, so regular worshippers reset their Fajr alarm every few weeks.

Dhuhr (12:11 PM today)

Dhuhr starts once the sun has crossed its peak and begun to decline. Solar noon is not the same as 12:00 on the clock, because Salt Lake City sits within the America/Denver zone, away from its central meridian: today Dhuhr in Salt Lake City is 12:11 PM. On Fridays the Jummah congregation takes the place of Dhuhr.

Asr (2:59 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 2:59 PM in Salt Lake City 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 (5:21 PM today)

Maghrib enters the moment the whole disc of the sun disappears below the horizon: 5:21 PM today in Salt Lake City. 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 (6:38 PM today) and the Last Third of the Night

Isha begins when the last red glow leaves the western sky: 6:38 PM tonight in Salt Lake City. Halfway between Maghrib and the next Fajr falls Islamic midnight, and the last third of the night after it is set aside for Tahajjud, the voluntary night prayer. Tonight's last third for Salt Lake City is on our Tahajjud calculator.

Friday Jummah and Mosques in Salt Lake City, Utah

Every Friday, Jummah replaces Dhuhr, and it is the largest weekly gathering of Muslims in Salt Lake City. The verified list below covers 3 mosques and Islamic centers in Salt Lake City, with addresses, headed by Masjid Al-Noor at 740 South 700 East, Salt Lake City, UT 84103. Masjid Al-Noor publishes a Jummah time of 1st: 1:30 PM, 2nd: 2:20 PM. Other mosques set their own khutbah times, so confirm before you travel.

Alongside Jummah, these mosques hold the five daily congregational prayers, weekend Quran classes for children, and taraweeh in Ramadan. Know a Salt Lake City mosque that is not listed? Send us its details and we will add it with its address and Jummah time.

Finding the Qibla Direction in Salt Lake City (28.51° North-East)

Prayer is valid only when faced toward the Kaaba in Mecca, and from Salt Lake City the shortest path over the Earth's surface, the great-circle route, points 28.51° north-east from true north. The bearing is calculated from Salt Lake City's coordinates (40.8° N, 111.9° W) to the Kaaba (21.4225° N, 39.8262° E). At about 7772 miles (12508 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 Salt Lake City, 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 Utah: The Two Jump Days

Salt Lake City moves its clocks twice a year, and the prayer timetable jumps with them. Daylight saving begins on 08 Mar 2026: Fajr leaps from 5:37 AM to 6:35 AM in one night, a shift of just under an hour, and Maghrib follows, from 6:26 PM to 7:27 PM. On 01 Nov 2026 the clocks fall back, and Fajr returns from 6:40 AM to 5:41 AM. Mosques in Salt Lake City 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 Salt Lake City

The day in Salt Lake City runs from Fajr at 5:43 AM to Isha at 6:38 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.