Prayer Times in Rochester — January 2026

Reading the January 2026 table

Prayer times in Rochester today (Sunday, 30 August 2026): Fajr 05:09, Sunrise 06:33, Dhuhr 13:11, Asr 16:54, Maghrib 19:50, Isha 21:12. Times are computed from the city’s coordinates, the America/New_York timezone (UTC−4 · EDT), the Islamic Society of North America convention and Standard (single-shadow) Asr.

Rochester is listed under New York in United States. The engine uses 43.1566 latitude and -77.6088 longitude with IANA zone America/New_York. A mosque a few kilometres away will usually match these times to the minute; a different city, even in the same metro area, can drift by two to five minutes because longitude shifts solar noon. The listed population is about 210,000 people.

For the latitude of Rochester, day length changes clearly from winter to summer. In August 2026 sunrise is 06:33 and Maghrib is 19:50. Dhuhr (13:11) 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 Rochester’s own coordinates rather than a national average.

The Islamic Society of North America method is the starting point on this Rochester 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.

Rochester (United States) has both long-established and newer Muslim communities. Jumu'ah times are set by each mosque and are not computed here — only the five daily prayers and sunrise.

Qibla from Rochester is 55.9° from true north (NE), about 10,410 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 Buffalo (107 km), prayer times in Pittsburgh (361 km), prayer times in Paterson (378 km), prayer times in Cleveland (383 km), prayer times in Newark (391 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 Rochester timetable for August 2026. A year view lives at prayer times in Rochester 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 Rochester is typically accurate to one or two minutes on a clear horizon.