Prayer Times Tacoma, WA Today

How Prayer Times in Tacoma Change Through the Year

No two days in Tacoma start at quite the same time. Across 2026, the earliest dawn prayer falls on 03 Jun 2026 at 3:12 AM, while the latest falls on 31 Oct 2026 at 6:26 AM. Between those dates Fajr travels 3 hours 14 minutes, which is why this page recalculates the timetable daily instead of printing a fixed one. The swing is wide because Tacoma sits at 47.3 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 Tacoma is earliest on 04 Dec 2026 at 4:20 PM and latest on 21 Jun 2026 at 9:10 PM, a shift of 4 hours 50 minutes. On the longest day of the year, 21 Jun 2026, the sun sets at 9:10 PM; on the shortest day, 21 Dec 2026, it sets at 4:22 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 Tacoma runs 17 hours 57 minutes, on 17 Jun 2026, from a Fajr of 3:12 AM to a Maghrib of 9:09 PM; the shortest is just 10 hours 2 minutes on 19 Dec 2026. Measured against the other 218 cities and neighbourhoods we track, that is one of the ten longest fasting days in the United States: only 5 places fast longer at midsummer. Solar noon drifts as well: Dhuhr moves between 11:53 AM and 1:20 PM across the year, following the equation of time.

Summer nights are short. The latest Isha of the year falls on 28 Jun 2026 at 11:12 PM, and Fajr follows only a few hours later, so the night prayers crowd together in June and July. Many worshippers in Tacoma plan sleep around this stretch, and some mosques combine or adjust summer night schedules, so check your local mosque's board in midsummer.

How Each Prayer Time Is Calculated in Tacoma

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 Tacoma 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 Tacoma is 23 Jumādá al-ūlá 1448 (03 Nov 2026).

Fajr (5:30 AM today)

Fajr is the dawn prayer, and its time begins at true dawn, the first horizontal light in the east. Today in Tacoma that is 5:30 AM. Pray it before sunrise (6:56 AM); after sunrise it counts as qada (missed). Through the year in Tacoma, dawn moves between 3:12 AM and 6:26 AM, so the Fajr alarm needs resetting with the seasons.

Dhuhr (11:53 AM today)

Dhuhr enters just after solar noon, the moment the sun stops climbing and starts down. Solar noon in Tacoma is not 12:00 on the clock, because the city sits inside the America/Los_Angeles zone rather than on its meridian line: today it gives a Dhuhr of 11:53 AM. On Fridays, Jummah takes Dhuhr's place.

Asr (2:26 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: 2:26 PM in Tacoma 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 (4:50 PM today)

Maghrib enters the moment the whole disc of the sun disappears below the horizon: 4:50 PM today in Tacoma. 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 (6:16 PM today) and the Last Third of the Night

Isha begins when the red twilight leaves the western sky, at 6:16 PM tonight in Tacoma. 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 Tacoma.

Friday Jummah and Mosques in Tacoma, Washington

Jummah, the Friday congregational prayer, replaces Dhuhr every week and is the largest regular gathering of Muslims in Tacoma. The mosque listed below serves Tacoma with its address, including Islamic Center of Tacoma at 31 Montana Ave, Tacoma, WA 98409. Each mosque sets its own khutbah time inside the Dhuhr window (Dhuhr today is 11:53 AM), so check the mosque's own notice board or website before you go, and arrive early: Friday parking fills fast.

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

Finding the Qibla Direction in Tacoma (17.50° North)

Prayer is valid only when faced toward the Kaaba in Mecca, and from Tacoma the shortest path over the Earth's surface, the great-circle route, points 17.50° north from true north. The bearing is calculated from Tacoma's coordinates (47.3° N, 122.4° W) to the Kaaba (21.4225° N, 39.8262° E). Along that bearing, the Kaaba is about 7565 miles (12175 km) from Tacoma in a straight line over the Earth's curved surface. From Tacoma, the great-circle line heads across Canada and the North Atlantic before descending toward Arabia.

At home or at work in Tacoma, 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 Washington: The Two Jump Days

Twice a year in Tacoma, the clock moves and every prayer time jumps with it. When daylight saving time begins on 08 Mar 2026, Fajr moves from 5:14 AM to 6:12 AM in a single night, a shift of just under an hour, and Maghrib moves from 6:04 PM to 7:06 PM. When standard time returns on 01 Nov 2026, Fajr moves from 6:26 AM back to 5:27 AM, and sunset prayers come an hour earlier in the evening. Every time on this page already follows the America/Los_Angeles clock in force on that date, so no manual adjustment is ever needed.

Daily Adhkar and Duas for Tacoma

The day in Tacoma runs from Fajr at 5:30 AM to Isha at 6:16 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.