Omaha Prayer Times

Prayer Times in Omaha, Nebraska

Omahaprayer times are calculated based on the city's precise geographic coordinates (41.2565°N, 95.9345°W) using the ISNA calculation method — the standard used by most mosques in Nebraska and across the United States. Times shown are for today's date and update automatically at midnight.

The five daily prayers — Fajr, Dhuhr, Asr, Maghrib, and Isha — are calculated from the sun's position relative to Omaha's latitude and longitude. As the sun's declination changes throughout the year, prayer times shift by several minutes each day. This is why a Omaha prayer time calendar for the full month is shown below — so you can plan ahead without checking daily.

How Omaha's prayer times are worked out

Omaha sits 11,687 km (7,262 miles) from the Kaaba in Mecca, so the Qibla from here is 42° from true north — you face northeast to pray. Fajr and Isha depend on how far the sun drops below the horizon, and Nebraska follows the ISNA method set by the Islamic Society of North America: Fajr begins when the sun is 15° below the horizon, and Isha when it reaches 15°. A city that used ISNA's 15° instead would get a noticeably different Fajr — which is why the method, not just the coordinates, decides the answer.

Day length is what really moves the timetable in Omaha. Measured with the ISNA method, the longest daily fast here — from Fajr to Maghrib — runs about 16h 51m around June, while the shortest is roughly 10h 35m in December: a swing of 6h 16m across the year. That spread is set by Omaha's latitude (41.26°N); cities nearer the equator barely vary, while far-northern ones swing by many hours.

One local quirk worth knowing: Dhuhr in Omaha does not fall at 12:00. Because the city sits well west within its America/Chicago time zone, the sun peaks about 92 minutes after clock noon, and Dhuhr follows the sun rather than the clock — today it is at 1:31 PM. The nearest cities we also publish times for are Des Moines, Kansas City, Cedar Rapids — close enough that their times differ from Omaha's by only a few minutes.