Portland Prayer Times

Prayer Times in Portland, Maine

Portlandprayer times are calculated based on the city's precise geographic coordinates (43.6591°N, 70.2568°W) using the ISNA calculation method — the standard used by most mosques in Maine 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 Portland'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 Portland prayer time calendar for the full month is shown below — so you can plan ahead without checking daily.

How Portland's prayer times are worked out

Portland sits 9,874 km (6,136 miles) from the Kaaba in Mecca, so the Qibla from here is 61° from true north — you face northeast to pray. Fajr and Isha depend on how far the sun drops below the horizon, and Maine 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 Portland. Measured with the ISNA method, the longest daily fast here — from Fajr to Maghrib — runs about 17h 17m around June, while the shortest is roughly 10h 22m in December: a swing of 6h 55m across the year. That spread is set by Portland's latitude (43.66°N); cities nearer the equator barely vary, while far-northern ones swing by many hours.

One local quirk worth knowing: Dhuhr in Portland does not fall at 12:00. Because the city sits well west within its America/New York time zone, the sun peaks about 49 minutes after clock noon, and Dhuhr follows the sun rather than the clock — today it is at 12:48 PM. The nearest cities we also publish times for are Manchester, Boston, Cambridge — close enough that their times differ from Portland's by only a few minutes.