Prayer Times in Chicago — May 2026

Reading the May 2026 table

Accurate prayer times for Chicago on Sunday, 30 August 2026: Fajr 04:53, Shuruq 06:14, Dhuhr 12:51, Asr 16:33, Maghrib 19:28, Isha 20:48. Times are computed from the city’s coordinates, the America/Chicago timezone (UTC−5 · CDT), the Islamic Society of North America convention and Standard (single-shadow) Asr.

Chicago sits in Illinois, United States, at 41.8781°, -87.6298°. Those two numbers — latitude and longitude — are the entire geographic input for the timetable. Population on this page is treated as a ranking signal only; the prayer times themselves depend on the sun’s altitude as seen from this point on Earth. The urban area is on the order of 2.7 million people.

For the latitude of Chicago, day length changes clearly from winter to summer. In August 2026 sunrise is 06:14 and Maghrib is 19:28. Dhuhr (12:51) sits near local solar noon. That seasonal swing is the reason a UK timetable cannot be reused in United States, and why this page is calculated from Chicago’s own coordinates rather than a national average.

The Islamic Society of North America method is the starting point on this Chicago page. Fajr and Isha are defined by solar depression angles (or, for Umm al-Qura, a Maghrib-plus-minutes rule). Asr is shown with the Standard shadow factor of 1, used by the Shafi'i, Maliki and Hanbali schools and by most Western mosque boards. Many North American Islamic centres follow ISNA (15°/15°). If your masjid prints later Fajr than this page, switch the method to ISNA.

Chicago has one of the oldest Muslim communities in the United States, including a large Bosnian heritage in the northern suburbs and a long-standing African-American Muslim presence on the South Side. ISNA angles are the usual North American default; many masajid still print MWL. Switch the method to match your mosque.

Qibla from Chicago is 48.7° from true north (NE), about 11,146 km from the Kaaba in Makkah. A phone compass is only as good as its calibration; once you have identified a wall that faces that bearing, you can mark it and stop re-measuring every day. Magnetic declination is not applied on this page — the figure is geographic, which is what a qibla diagram expects.

Nearby timetables: prayer times in Milwaukee (131 km), prayer times in Indianapolis (265 km), prayer times in Ann Arbor (324 km), prayer times in Dearborn (371 km), prayer times in Detroit (381 km). Neighbouring cities share almost the same latitude, so Fajr and Isha usually differ by one to four minutes — mostly longitude and the minute the time zone snaps to.

The full August grid is on the Chicago timetable for August 2026. A year view lives at prayer times in Chicago for 2026. More cities in United States are listed on the United States prayer times page. Figures refresh automatically each day.

This page is an astronomical estimate, not a fatwa and not a substitute for the announcement in your local masjid. Some congregations publish a one- to three-minute precaution. If your mosque uses a different Fajr angle, switch the method above or apply a manual minute offset. For personal prayer, a coordinate-based calculation for Chicago is typically accurate to one or two minutes on a clear horizon.