Portland Prayer Times

Prayer Times in Portland, Maine

Prayer times in Portland are worked out each day from the city's coordinates (43.66°N). We use the ISNA method, the one followed across Maine. The five times shift by a minute or two each day as the sun moves. The full month is listed below.

Portland's times use the ISNA method. That is the standard used by most mosques in Maine and across the United States. They are drawn from Portland's own coordinates (43.6591°N, 70.2568°W). The schedule updates automatically at midnight, with no manual setting.

How Portland's prayer times are worked out

From Portland, the Qibla is 61° from true north. Face northeast to pray toward the Kaaba. It lies 9,874 km (6,136 miles) away in a straight line across the globe. Every time on this page is worked out from Portland's own coordinates (43.66°N, 70.26°W), not a national average. That is why Portland's times and its Qibla differ a little from cities a short distance away.

One local quirk shapes the Portland timetable: midday prayer does not land at 12:00. Portland lies well west inside its New York time zone. So the sun peaks about 49 minutes after clock noon. Dhuhr follows the sun, not the clock — today it falls at 12:47 PM. Across the year, the fast here runs from about 17h 17m near June down to 10h 22m in December.

The Fajr and Isha angles for Portland 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 Manchester, Boston and Cambridge. Each is only a few minutes off Portland's clock.

Nearby: Manchester prayer times · Boston prayer times · Cambridge prayer times · Providence prayer times · Sherbrooke prayer times

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Mosques in Portland

Mosques in and around Portland include Masjid Al-Huda, Masjid Bilal and Omar Bin Alkhetab Masjid. The times on this page are worked out from Portland'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.