Clifton Prayer Times

Prayer Times in Clifton, New Jersey

Prayer times in Clifton are worked out each day from the city's coordinates (40.86°N). We use the ISNA method, the one followed across New Jersey. The five times shift by a minute or two each day as the sun moves. The full month is listed below.

Clifton's times use the ISNA method. That is the standard used by most mosques in New Jersey and across the United States. They are drawn from Clifton's own coordinates (40.8584°N, 74.1638°W). The schedule updates automatically at midnight, with no manual setting.

How Clifton's prayer times are worked out

From Clifton, the Qibla is 58° from true north. Face northeast to pray toward the Kaaba. It lies 10,309 km (6,406 miles) away in a straight line across the globe. Every time on this page is worked out from Clifton's own coordinates (40.86°N, 74.16°W), not a national average. That is why Clifton's times and its Qibla differ a little from cities a short distance away.

One local quirk shapes the Clifton timetable: midday prayer does not land at 12:00. Clifton lies well west inside its New York time zone. So the sun peaks about 65 minutes after clock noon. Dhuhr follows the sun, not the clock — today it falls at 12:55 PM. Across the year, the fast here runs from about 16h 47m near June down to 10h 37m in December.

The Fajr and Isha angles for Clifton come from the Islamic Society of North America. The ISNA method sets Fajr when the sun is 15° below the horizon, and Isha at 15°. Use ISNA's 15° instead and Fajr here would move by several minutes. So the method — not the coordinates alone — settles the final time. We also publish times for nearby Paterson, Hackensack and Newark. Each is only a few minutes off Clifton's clock.

Nearby: Paterson prayer times · Hackensack prayer times · Newark prayer times · Jersey City prayer times · New York prayer times

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Mosques in Clifton

A mosque serving Clifton is Albanian American Islamic Center. The times on this page are worked out from Clifton's own coordinates, and they apply across these mosques. Check the exact iqama time with your local mosque. That is the congregation, called a few minutes after each prayer starts.