Fresno Prayer Times

Prayer Times in Fresno, California

Prayer times in Fresno are worked out each day from the city's coordinates (36.74°N). We use the ISNA method, the one followed across California. The five times shift by a minute or two each day as the sun moves. The full month is listed below.

Fresno's times use the ISNA method. That is the standard used by most mosques in California and across the United States. They are drawn from Fresno's own coordinates (36.7378°N, 119.7871°W). The schedule updates automatically at midnight, with no manual setting.

How Fresno's prayer times are worked out

From Fresno, the Qibla is 22° from true north. Face north to pray toward the Kaaba. It lies 13,203 km (8,204 miles) away in a straight line across the globe. Every time on this page is worked out from Fresno's own coordinates (36.74°N, 119.79°W), not a national average. That is why Fresno's times and its Qibla differ a little from cities a short distance away.

One local quirk shapes the Fresno timetable: midday prayer does not land at 12:00. Fresno lies well west inside its Los Angeles time zone. So the sun peaks about 68 minutes after clock noon. Dhuhr follows the sun, not the clock — today it falls at 1:05 PM. Across the year, the fast here runs from about 16h 10m near June down to 10h 56m in December.

The Fajr and Isha angles for Fresno 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 Bakersfield, Stockton and San Jose. Each is only a few minutes off Fresno's clock.

Nearby: Bakersfield prayer times · Stockton prayer times · San Jose prayer times · Fremont prayer times · Sacramento prayer times

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