Prayer Times Alief, TX Today

How Prayer Times in Alief Change Through the Year

No two days in Alief start at quite the same time. Across 2026, the earliest dawn prayer falls on 06 Jun 2026 at 5:04 AM, while the latest falls on 08 Mar 2026 at 6:35 AM. Between those dates Fajr travels 1 hour 31 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 Alief sits at 29.7 degrees north, where daylight stays steadier through the year.

The evening moves even more than the morning. The earliest Maghrib of the year in Alief is 5:23 PM on 25 Nov 2026; the latest is 8:27 PM on 25 Jun 2026, a shift of 3 hours 4 minutes. On the longest day, 21 Jun 2026, sunset holds until 8:26 PM; on the shortest day, 21 Dec 2026, it comes at 5:28 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 Alief runs 15 hours 22 minutes on 20 Jun 2026, from Fajr at 5:04 AM to Maghrib at 8:26 PM. The shortest fast is 11 hours 25 minutes on 17 Dec 2026. Solar noon moves too: Dhuhr ranges from 12:06 PM in one part of the year to 1:33 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 201 of 218.

How Each Prayer Time Is Calculated in Alief

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 Alief 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 Alief 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 Alief that is 5:30 AM. Pray it before sunrise (6:37 AM); after sunrise it counts as qada (missed). Through the year in Alief, dawn moves between 5:04 AM and 6:35 AM, so the Fajr alarm needs resetting with the seasons.

Dhuhr (12:06 PM today)

Dhuhr begins just after the sun passes its highest point and starts to descend. Clock noon and solar noon rarely match, because Alief sits inside the America/Chicago zone rather than on its meridian, so Dhuhr today is 12:06 PM. On Fridays, Jummah replaces Dhuhr.

Asr (3:12 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 3:12 PM in Alief 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 (5:34 PM today)

Maghrib enters the moment the whole disc of the sun disappears below the horizon: 5:34 PM today in Alief. 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 (6:41 PM today) and the Last Third of the Night

Isha begins when the red twilight leaves the western sky, at 6:41 PM tonight in Alief. 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 Alief.

Friday Jummah and Mosques in Alief, Texas

Jummah, the Friday congregational prayer, replaces Dhuhr every week and is the largest regular gathering of Muslims in Alief. 2 mosques and Islamic centers in Alief are listed below with their addresses, including IslamInSpanish Centro Islamico at 12703 Brant Rock Dr, Houston, TX 77082. IslamInSpanish Centro Islamico publishes a Jummah time of 1:30 PM in Spanish, 2:30 PM in English. 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 Alief mosque is missing here, contact us with its address and Jummah time and we will add it.

Finding the Qibla Direction in Alief (45.33° North-East)

Muslims pray facing the Kaaba in Mecca, and from Alief that means facing 45.33° north-east from true north, measured the short way around the globe. The bearing comes from Alief's position (29.7° N, 95.6° W) set against the Kaaba's (21.4225° N, 39.8262° E). At about 7826 miles (12594 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 Alief, 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

Alief moves its clocks twice a year, and the prayer timetable jumps with them. Daylight saving begins on 08 Mar 2026: Fajr leaps from 5:36 AM to 6:35 AM in one night, a shift of just under an hour, and Maghrib follows, from 6:26 PM to 7:26 PM. On 01 Nov 2026 the clocks fall back, and Fajr returns from 6:28 AM to 5:29 AM. Mosques in Alief 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 Alief

The day in Alief runs from Fajr at 5:30 AM to Isha at 6:41 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.