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Prayer times in Chicago

Chicago sits at the eastern edge of US Central time, which puts solar noon well before the clock’s — Dhuhr arrives earlier here than the hour suggests. ISNA’s 15° angles are the standard across the Midwest.

A typical day · ISNA

  • Fajr05:12
  • Sunrise06:30
  • Dhuhr12:47
  • Asr16:16
  • Maghrib19:02
  • Isha20:19

These are reference times for Chicago, generated when this page was published. For times that update live and follow your own method and madhab, use the calculator on the home page or the app.

Why timetables disagree

Fajr and Isha depend on how far the sun sits below the horizon, and different authorities settled on different angles. A few minutes of variation between two timetables for Chicago is normal rather than an error — it usually means they use different parameters, not that one is wrong. Mozzi defaults to ISNA here and lets you change it.

Across the year, Fajr in Chicago ranges from about 03:31 at its earliest to 05:55 at its latest. That spread is the single biggest reason a printed timetable goes stale.

Asr, and the two calculations

Asr is the one prayer where the difference is large rather than marginal. The Hanafi calculation places it noticeably later than the Shafiʿi, Maliki and Hanbali one — in Chicago today, about 54 minutes later. If Asr looks wrong to you and everything else looks right, that setting is almost always the reason.

Getting the adhan in Chicago

Mozzi plays a real call to prayer at each time rather than a notification chime, and on iOS 26 it can sound through Silent mode and Focus the way an alarm does. Times are calculated on your phone, so it keeps working with no signal.

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