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Everything a frum traveler needs in Potomac, MD: this week’s candle lighting, the nearest community, where to look for Chabad, kosher food and a minyan, and the app that plans the trip around Shabbos.
Candle lighting 6:01 PM (18 minutes before shkiah 6:19 PM)
Shabbos ends 6:58 PM (8.5°)
Coming weeks: Oct 30: 5:52 PM · Nov 6: 4:44 PM · Nov 13: 4:38 PM
Local time (America/New_York), sea level, NOAA. Follow your community’s luach where it differs; the app has every opinion.
Jewish life near Potomac
The nearest community in our directory is Washington, DC, about 12 miles away (Kosher Score 68):
- Chabad: Chabad Lubavitch of Washington DC (American Friends of Lubavitch), 2110 Leroy Pl NW, Washington, DC 20008
- Shul: Kesher Israel, Georgetown, 2801 N St NW, Washington, DC 20007
- Kosher: Char Bar, 2142 L St NW, Washington, DC 20037
- Eruv: Georgetown and Capitol Hill eruvin
Find what is here
- Chabad in Potomac: almost every city this size has a shliach; Shabbos meals and a minyan start there.
- Kosher food in Potomac, and the map in the app shows every shul, kosher shop and mikvah OpenStreetMap knows within 30 miles.
- Minyanim in Potomac.
- Kosher-friendly stays and Shabbos meals from hosts near here.
Open Potomac in the app Deal alerts
Potomac, MD, population about 44,965, time zone America/New_York. Confirm every minyan, hechsher and eruv before you rely on it; the app says the same. Zmanim are for Potomac itself; a few miles move candle lighting a minute.
Jewish heritage nearby
- Congregation B'nai Tzedek (Synagogue, active, 1.7 km)
- Congregation Har Shalom (Synagogue, active, 3.2 km)
- Washington Hebrew Congregation – Julia Bindeman Suburban Center (Synagogue, active, 3.9 km)
- Young Israel Ezras Israel of Potomac (Synagogue, active, 5.2 km)
- Chabad Shul of Potomac (Synagogue, active, 5.2 km)
- Beth Sholom Congregation and Talmud Torah (Synagogue, Built 1999, status not confirmed, 5.4 km)
- Magen David Shephardic Congregational Synagogue (Synagogue, active, 8.7 km)
- Chabad of Bethesda-Chevy Chase (Synagogue, active, 8.9 km)
- Chabad of Upper Montgomery County (Synagogue, active, 10.5 km)
- Tikvat Israel Synagogue (Synagogue, active, 11.1 km)
- Chabad of Tysons (Synagogue, active, 11.7 km)
- Northern Virginia Hebrew Congregational Synagogue (Synagogue, active, 11.9 km)
From the community in Potomac, MD
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Flights and hotels for Potomac, MD
Every airline and agency compared, hotels too; bookings support Shabbos Away. Run a Friday landing through the Shabbos check in the app first.
Making a minyan here? Borrow a Sefer Torah from the Museum of the Scroll.