Prayer Times Bronx, NY Today

How Prayer Times in Bronx Change Through the Year

No two days in Bronx start at quite the same time. Across 2026, the earliest dawn prayer falls on 15 Jun 2026 at 3:43 AM, while the latest falls on 31 Oct 2026 at 6:08 AM. Between those dates Fajr travels 2 hours 25 minutes, which is why this page recalculates the timetable daily instead of printing a fixed one. The swing is wide because Bronx 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 Bronx is earliest on 01 Dec 2026 at 4:28 PM and latest on 21 Jun 2026 at 8:31 PM, a shift of 4 hours 3 minutes. On the longest day of the year, 21 Jun 2026, the sun sets at 8:31 PM; on the shortest day, 21 Dec 2026, it sets at 4:31 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 Bronx runs 16 hours 47 minutes, on 17 Jun 2026, from a Fajr of 3:43 AM to a Maghrib of 8:30 PM; the shortest is just 10 hours 37 minutes on 17 Dec 2026. Measured against the other 218 cities and neighbourhoods we track, only 53 have a longer longest fast, which puts Bronx in the longest-fast quarter of the country. Solar noon drifts as well: Dhuhr moves between 11:39 AM and 1:06 PM across the year, following the equation of time.

How Each Prayer Time Is Calculated in Bronx

The Bronx timetable on this page is calculated with the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) method, the convention followed by most mosques in the United States. It sets Fajr and Isha by a 15-degree depression angle of the sun, and Asr by the standard shadow rule; the Hanafi Asr is one tap away in the method selector. Each prayer is tied to a position of the sun, never to a fixed clock time. Today, 03 Nov 2026, is 23 Jumādá al-ūlá 1448.

Fajr (5:11 AM today)

Fajr is prayed at dawn, when light first appears across the horizon before sunrise. Today in Bronx it begins at 5:11 AM and must be finished by sunrise (6:28 AM). Across the year, Bronx's dawn moves from 3:43 AM at the earliest to 6:08 AM at the latest, so regular worshippers reset their Fajr alarm every few weeks.

Dhuhr (11:39 AM 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 Bronx sits within the America/New_York zone, away from its central meridian: today Dhuhr in Bronx is 11:39 AM. On Fridays the Jummah congregation takes the place of Dhuhr.

Asr (2:27 PM today)

Under the standard rule used by the Shafi'i, Maliki and Hanbali schools, Asr opens when a shadow stretches to the object's own length beyond the noon shadow. That gives 2:27 PM in Bronx today. Hanafi Asr, at twice the length, lands roughly 45 to 65 minutes later; flip the method selector at the top of the page to see it. The time to pray Asr runs out as the light yellows toward sunset.

Maghrib (4:49 PM today)

At 4:49 PM today in Bronx, the sun sets and Maghrib begins. Its window is the shortest of the day, so it is prayed promptly. On fasting days this same moment is iftar: break the fast first, following the Sunnah, with dates or water.

Isha (6:06 PM today) and the Last Third of the Night

Isha starts when the red afterglow fades from the western sky: 6:06 PM tonight in Bronx. 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 Bronx, New York

Jummah, the Friday congregational prayer, replaces Dhuhr every week and is the largest regular gathering of Muslims in Bronx. 2 mosques and Islamic centers in Bronx are listed below with their addresses, including Bronx Muslim Center at 702 Rhinelander Ave, Bronx, NY 10462. The Bronx Islamic Society publishes a Jummah time of 1:15 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 Bronx mosque is missing here, contact us with its address and Jummah time and we will add it.

Finding the Qibla Direction in Bronx (58.56° North-East)

Prayer is valid only when faced toward the Kaaba in Mecca, and from Bronx the shortest path over the Earth's surface, the great-circle route, points 58.56° north-east from true north. The bearing is calculated from Bronx's coordinates (40.8° N, 73.9° W) to the Kaaba (21.4225° N, 39.8262° E). At about 6394 miles (10290 km), that puts Bronx among the closer American places to Mecca. 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 Bronx, 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 New York: The Two Jump Days

Twice a year in Bronx, the clock moves and every prayer time jumps with it. When daylight saving time begins on 08 Mar 2026, Fajr moves from 5:05 AM to 6:04 AM in a single night, a shift of just under an hour, and Maghrib moves from 5:54 PM to 6:55 PM. When standard time returns on 01 Nov 2026, Fajr moves from 6:08 AM back to 5:09 AM, and sunset prayers come an hour earlier in the evening. Every time on this page already follows the America/New_York clock in force on that date, so no manual adjustment is ever needed.

Daily Adhkar and Duas for Bronx

The day in Bronx runs from Fajr at 5:11 AM to Isha at 6:06 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.