Prayer Times in Atlanta, United States

Prayer times in Atlanta

The direction of prayer from Atlanta is north-east, or 52° if you are using a compass app. That is roughly 11,503 kilometres in a straight line. The times themselves are worked out from the city's exact position.

Suhoor and iftar in Atlanta

Stop eating by 6:29 am; break the fast at 6:47 pm. That is about 12 hours and 18 minutes on today's times. The full month is listed below if you want to see where the fast is heading.

The clock against the sun

Solar noon in Atlanta falls about 81 minutes after twelve o'clock. That is why Dhuhr sits at 1:21 pm rather than just past midday, and it carries through to Asr, Maghrib and Isha as well. This catches people out regularly, but prayer follows the sun, and the clock is only the label we put on it.

The shape of the day

It starts in the dark, with Fajr at 6:29 am. The sun appears at 7:55 am, which ends the Fajr period. Dhuhr follows at 1:21 pm once the sun has tipped past its highest point, and Asr at 5:09 pm. Maghrib is prayed at 6:47 pm as the light goes, then Isha at 8:17 pm. Sunrise to sunset, today runs about 10 hours and 52 minutes.

How the times are worked out

The underlying method is Umm Al-Qura University, Makkah. The disagreement between methods lives almost entirely in Fajr and Isha, where the sun is below the horizon and the chosen angle decides the time. For Asr this page uses the Hanafi position — later in the day than the majority view. If the mosque down the road announces something a few minutes different, pray with the mosque.

Season by season in Atlanta

Across the year the Atlanta timetable shifts by an hour or two at each end — long summer evenings push Isha back, short winter days crowd Dhuhr, Asr and Maghrib together.

Prayer times in Atlanta: FAQ

No need to bookmark a timetable: the page recalculates for Atlanta daily.