Tampa Prayer Times
Tampa, FL · Eastern Time · ISNA method
Tampa, FL
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Gulf Coast Mild Schedule
At 27.95°N, Tampa has one of the mildest prayer schedules in the US. Fajr never falls below 4:40 AM, and Maghrib stays above 5:35 PM year-round — ideal for Muslim professionals and visitors to Florida's Gulf Coast.
Tampa Muslim Communities
🕌 Tampa Muslim Community — CAIR Florida & Islamic Centers
Tampa's Muslim community is anchored by several major Islamic institutions. The Islamic Society of Tampa Bay Area (ISTABA) in north Tampa serves a large and diverse congregation with daily prayers, Islamic schooling, and community programs. CAIR Florida, the state chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, maintains offices in the Tampa area and provides civil rights advocacy, Know Your Rights workshops, and community resources for Florida's entire Muslim population. Founded after September 11, 2001 to address rising Islamophobia, CAIR Florida has grown into one of the most active state civil rights organizations in the country, regularly representing Tampa-area Muslims in workplace discrimination and religious accommodation cases.
The Tampa metro's South Asian Muslim community — Pakistani, Indian, and Bangladeshi professionals drawn to Tampa's healthcare, technology, and financial services sectors — is concentrated in Brandon, Riverview, and Wesley Chapel, with Islamic centers in these suburbs serving families who prefer not to commute to north Tampa for Friday prayers. Wesley Chapel, one of the fastest-growing communities in Florida, has seen mosque construction accelerate alongside its residential boom. The University of South Florida area in north Tampa hosts a Muslim student and faculty community at USF MSA, connecting university life to broader Tampa Muslim civic networks.
🏭 Historic Ybor City Connection — Yemeni Cigar Workers
Among the most distinctive aspects of Tampa's Muslim history is the early twentieth-century Yemeni presence in Ybor City, Tampa's historic cigar district. Around 1900, Yemeni workers emigrated to Tampa to work alongside Cuban, Spanish, and Italian rollers in Ybor City's thriving cigar factories. These workers maintained their Muslim faith — fasting Ramadan, observing halal practices where possible, and praying — in an era when Florida had no mosques and before Arab Muslim communities were established elsewhere in the state. Their presence predated by decades the major mid-century waves of Arab immigration that would build Muslim communities in Detroit, Chicago, and New York.
The Ybor City Yemeni community represents one of the earliest documented Arab Muslim presences in Florida, praying in homes and rented gathering spaces and maintaining Islamic identity within a predominantly Catholic immigrant milieu. Ybor City itself was a remarkable experiment in multicultural working-class life — Cubans, Spaniards, Italians, African Americans, and Yemeni Muslims all living and laboring in proximity in the cigar factories. This history is honored in the Ybor City Museum and is a point of pride for Tampa's Arab American community today, a reminder that Muslim roots in Florida go back more than a century.
🌍 Arab Community — Palestinian, Lebanese & Syrian Families
Tampa has a longstanding Arab Muslim community including Palestinian, Lebanese, and Syrian families who have been present in the city for multiple generations. Palestinian families arrived in significant numbers after 1948 and again after 1967, establishing businesses, raising families, and building community organizations in Tampa and the broader Bay Area. Lebanese and Syrian families contributed to Tampa's Arab American landscape since the early twentieth century, with some families tracing Tampa roots to before World War II — arriving first as peddlers and merchants before eventually building more permanent community institutions.
Arab Muslim professionals in Tampa today occupy leadership roles in medicine, real estate, and business. Arab community organizations and mosques serving Arabic-speaking congregations hold Friday prayers, Eid celebrations, and cultural events connecting Tampa's Arab Muslim families to one another. The annual cultural events organized by Arab community groups — including Eid fairs and fundraising galas for relief organizations — draw hundreds of attendees from across the Bay Area and reflect a community that is both well-established locally and deeply connected to events in the Arab world.
🌍 East African Community — Somali East Tampa & Plant City
Tampa has a Somali Muslim community in East Tampa and in Plant City, a smaller city to the east of Tampa in Hillsborough County. Somali families arrived through refugee resettlement programs beginning in the 1990s and have built a network of community organizations, halal groceries, and mosques offering Jumu'ah and daily prayers in Somali. The community's journey — from refugee camps in Kenya and Ethiopia to Tampa Bay Area neighborhoods — is a story of remarkable resilience and community-building that mirrors Somali experiences in Columbus, Minneapolis, and Seattle.
Plant City, known for its strawberry farms and agricultural heritage, attracted East African workers who established a small but close-knit Muslim community among the farm labor and packing-house workforce. Tampa's Somali community maintains connections to the larger Somali diaspora networks in Central Florida, sharing resources, Ramadan programming, and community leadership development with Orlando and Jacksonville communities. Younger Somali Americans in Tampa — born or raised in the United States — are increasingly prominent in local government, education, and business, carrying the community's story forward into a new American generation.
Tampa Prayer Times by Month
27.95°N · ISNA method · Eastern Time (EST Nov–Mar / EDT Mar–Nov) · Mild year-round schedule
| Month | Fajr | Dhuhr | Asr | Maghrib | Isha |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 6:16 AM | 12:23 PM | 3:21 PM | 5:42 PM | 7:07 PM |
| February | 5:57 AM | 12:26 PM | 3:57 PM | 6:17 PM | 7:41 PM |
| March | 5:16 AM | 12:19 PM | 4:31 PM | 7:46 PM | 9:11 PM |
| April | 4:33 AM | 12:12 PM | 5:01 PM | 8:20 PM | 9:45 PM |
| May | 4:06 AM | 12:05 PM | 5:22 PM | 8:50 PM | 10:17 PM |
| June | 3:58 AM | 12:08 PM | 5:34 PM | 9:04 PM | 10:31 PM |
| July | 4:09 AM | 12:15 PM | 5:31 PM | 9:02 PM | 10:28 PM |
| August | 4:44 AM | 12:12 PM | 5:16 PM | 8:33 PM | 9:57 PM |
| September | 5:20 AM | 11:57 AM | 4:44 PM | 7:49 PM | 9:11 PM |
| October | 5:56 AM | 11:45 AM | 4:14 PM | 7:06 PM | 8:28 PM |
| November | 5:44 AM | 11:49 AM | 3:34 PM | 5:51 PM | 7:15 PM |
| December | 6:10 AM | 12:08 PM | 3:18 PM | 5:37 PM | 7:02 PM |
Frequently Asked Questions
What time is Fajr in Tampa FL today?▼
Fajr in Tampa ranges from about 4:40 AM in late June to 6:16 AM in December, Eastern Time. At 27.95°N, Tampa is one of the southernmost major US cities, giving it one of the most moderate and consistent prayer schedules in the country. The seasonal variation between earliest and latest Fajr is only about 90 minutes — far less than northern cities like Chicago or New York. Times are calculated using the ISNA method (15° solar depression).
What mosques are in Tampa?▼
Tampa has multiple mosques and Islamic centers serving its diverse Muslim community. The Islamic Society of Tampa Bay Area (ISTABA) is one of the largest, serving a broad cross-section of the community in north Tampa. The Darul Uloom Islamic Center and Al-Qassim Islamic Center are other major institutions. CAIR Florida, the state chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, maintains offices in Tampa and serves the broader Florida Muslim community for civil rights advocacy. Tampa area mosques are spread across the metro — Brandon, Wesley Chapel, Clearwater, and St. Petersburg all have Islamic centers serving their Muslim residents.
What is the Ybor City Yemeni connection?▼
One of Tampa's most distinctive historical footnotes is its early twentieth-century Yemeni Muslim community in Ybor City — Tampa's historic cigar-manufacturing district. Beginning around 1900, Yemeni workers emigrated to Tampa to work alongside Cuban, Spanish, and Italian cigar rollers in Ybor City's famous cigar factories. These Yemeni workers established one of the earliest Arab Muslim presences in Florida, maintaining their faith in an era before dedicated mosques existed in the region. They prayed in homes and gathering spaces, fasted Ramadan, and maintained halal practices while integrated into Ybor City's multicultural workforce. This early Yemeni presence is a largely forgotten chapter in Florida's Arab American history.
Where is the South Asian Muslim community in Tampa FL?▼
Tampa's South Asian Muslim community — Pakistani, Indian, and Bangladeshi families — has concentrated in the eastern and northeastern suburbs, particularly Brandon, Riverview, and Wesley Chapel in Hillsborough and Pasco counties. These suburbs offer affordable family housing, good schools, and proximity to Tampa's growing healthcare and technology sectors. Wesley Chapel has seen particularly rapid growth as a South Asian professional suburb. The University of South Florida area in north Tampa also has a Muslim student and faculty community. Halal restaurants and South Asian grocery stores are clustered in the Brandon-Riverview corridor and along Busch Boulevard in north Tampa.
What direction is Qibla from Tampa Florida?▼
From Tampa, the Qibla points approximately 58° from true north — northeast. The great-circle route from Tampa crosses the North Atlantic, over Western Europe and the Mediterranean, descending into the Arabian Peninsula toward Mecca. Tampa mosques orient their prayer halls to the northeast. Use our GPS Qibla compass at prayertimesnearme.com/qibla for an exact bearing from your current location.