Houston prayer times

Houston's selected-day times and monthly view

The first result uses Houston's listed city point and the current date in the America/Chicago timezone. A reader in London or Karachi therefore still sees Houston's date and Houston clock times. You can change the Local date to any day from 1 January 2020 through 31 December 2035, then select Calculate times. The point, date and timezone are shown in the input fields and with each result. Calculation details lists the settings behind it: the profile and its angles, the Asr method, the twilight rule, rounding and any minute offsets.

What each row marks with this page's default settings

For a whole month, open Monthly timetable. It uses the same point, the month of your selected date and your current settings. If you switch to Hanafi Asr before opening it, you get a Hanafi month. Print opens your browser's print dialog for that view.

What the ISNA profile and Asr choice change

On this page the Calculation profile is ISNA, which sets both Fajr and Isha at a 15° solar depression. A Fiqh Council of North America recommendation from its 2017 meeting, published in 2021, suggested 15°/15° for the United States and described these values as approximations. Its September 2024 article returns to the limits of fixed angles. It also discusses seasonal and local observation and following trusted local institutions. Treat the profile as a declared, editable starting point, not as the convention of every Houston congregation.

Default settings on this Houston page and what each one affects

The Angle-based twilight rule matters only on nights when twilight lasts unusually long. In every example on this page, Fajr and Isha are ordinary 15° crossings, so the rule leaves them unchanged. The high-latitude guide explains when such rules apply.

Asr calculation works independently of the profile. Choosing Hanafi moves Asr later and leaves the other rows unchanged. For example, on 21 June 2026 at the central Houston point, Standard Asr begins at 16:58 and Hanafi Asr at 18:16. Fajr (05:03), Maghrib (20:25) and Isha (21:43) are the same in both cases. On 15 January 2026, with Standard Asr, Fajr is 06:08, Asr 15:26 and Isha 18:54. Use Load this example on any case below to reproduce it in the calculator.

The shadow diagram models a 1-metre object. It starts with a 0.25-metre noon shadow, so Standard Asr begins when the shadow totals 1.25 metres and Hanafi Asr when it totals 2.25 metres. Moving the Noon shadow slider changes the noon component, and both totals change with it. The diagram illustrates the rule. It is not a measurement taken in Houston.

ISGH, River Oaks, Darul Quran and IEC: check the schedule you attend

For prayer attendance, use the schedule of the centre you attend. This calculator is not an official feed for any institution. The table below compares one historical date with the Islamic Society of Greater Houston's published January 2026 prayer timetable (PDF).

15 January 2026: this calculator compared with ISGH's published January 2026 timetable

The calculator values use the approximate central Houston point, ISNA 15°/15°, Standard Asr and America/Chicago. The ISGH PDF names ISNA and the Hanbali, Maliki and Shafi schools for Asr. It does not state its reference point or rounding policy.

On that date, four rows showed the same values and Asr and Maghrib were one minute apart. These are observed values for one day only. They do not show that the two full methods are the same, and the one-minute differences are not a correction to copy into the manual adjustments.

Each centre publishes its own schedule:

• River Oaks Islamic Center, part of ISGH, publishes its own daily and monthly prayer timings.
• Darul Quran is at 1612 Crabb River Road, Richmond, TX 77469. That is a different point from central Houston, so check its own schedule.
• Islamic Education Center, at 2313 South Voss Road, has its own monthly timetable. This calculator has not been validated as IEC's official timetable. If IEC is the community you follow, use its own published schedule.

Friday prayer has its own schedule. ISGH's Friday schedule lists different centres and sessions and asks readers to check individual masajid. A calculated Dhuhr start is not a Jumuah attendance time. The diagram below is a hypothetical illustration of how a calculated start relates to a later congregation time. It does not show any Houston mosque's times.

Houston centre, Richmond and Central Time are separate settings

This page calculates for an approximate central Houston point at 29.7604° N, 95.3698° W. Across a metro area this size, times shift by small amounts. If you pray in Richmond, Katy or Sugar Land, enter that location's coordinates manually, or select Use my location while you are there. Use my location asks for permission only when you select it. A manual or device point clears the timezone, so choose and confirm one before selecting Calculate times. The calculator has no separate Richmond preset.

The clock follows the America/Chicago timezone. Houston uses Central Standard Time (UTC−6) for part of the year and Central Daylight Time (UTC−5) for the rest. According to NIST, daylight saving time in 2026 ran from 8 March to 1 November. Under the annual rule, it starts on the second Sunday in March and ends on the first Sunday in November. The calculator applies the correct offset for the selected date, so you never need to add an hour by hand. Houston shares its clock with Chicago but not its prayer times, because the coordinates differ. For other cities, start from the prayer times hub.

If you change city or point, Use Houston centre again restores Houston's point and zone and keeps the date and settings you chose. Reset goes further: it restores this page's defaults and Today, and clears any Ramadan inputs. Find Qibla uses whichever point is active. The Houston Qibla guide describes the city itself.

Print a Houston month or plan Ramadan with your community's dates

To print a month:

1. Set your point, Local date, Calculation profile and Asr calculation.
2. Open Monthly timetable for the month of that date.
3. Select Print to use your browser's printing.

To build a Ramadan timetable:

1. Enter the First fasting day announced by the community you follow. Enter the Gregorian date of the first daytime fast, not the evening before it.
2. Choose 29 or 30 for Length of Ramadan.
3. Select Show timetable to get Fajr and Maghrib pairs for your selected point and settings.

Copy timetable link copies a URL that holds the date range and settings, not the table cells. For a listed city such as Houston, the link identifies the city centre. For a manual or device point, such as a Richmond or Katy location, it also includes the coordinates and timezone, so share it only with people you are happy to give that location. Either link is a snapshot, not live tracking.

Print timetable uses browser printing, and your browser may offer to save the page as a PDF. The tool does not declare when Ramadan begins. Your centre's announcement, Iqamah times and Ramadan programme remain the reference for congregation.

For more on how profiles differ, see calculation methods. To understand why two timetables for the same city disagree, see why prayer times differ.