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Sunrise and Sunset Times
Pick a city, your location, or coordinates and a date to see sunrise, sunset, twilight, golden hour and day length in local time.
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Calculated in your browser with the NOAA solar equations. City data © GeoNames (geonames.org), CC BY 4.0.
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Frequently asked questions
How accurate are these sunrise and sunset times?
They are calculated with the NOAA solar equations, which are based on Jean Meeus’s astronomical algorithms. Checked against the US Naval Observatory for London, New York, Sydney, Tokyo, Singapore, Istanbul and Reykjavik, every sunrise, sunset, solar noon and civil twilight time matched to within one minute. Local terrain, altitude and unusual air conditions can shift the moment you actually see the sun by a minute or two.
What is the difference between civil, nautical and astronomical twilight?
They are defined by how far the sun is below the horizon. Civil twilight runs until the sun is 6° below, and there is usually enough light to be outside without lamps. Nautical twilight runs to 12°, when the horizon at sea becomes hard to see. Astronomical twilight runs to 18°, after which the sky is fully dark for stargazing.
When is golden hour and blue hour?
This tool uses the common photographers’ definitions: golden hour is when the sun is between 6° above and 4° below the horizon, giving warm, soft light, and blue hour is when it is between 4° and 6° below, giving deep blue skies. Near the equator each lasts only about 20–30 minutes; at high latitudes they can last much longer.
What happens during midnight sun and polar night?
Far north or south of the equator the sun may stay above the horizon for the whole day in summer, or below it all day in winter. In those cases the tool says so instead of showing a sunrise or sunset, and still shows twilight times, since the sky can brighten around noon even when the sun never rises.
Why does the sunset sometimes show +1d?
In places far west inside their time zone, or at high latitudes in summer, the sun can set after midnight on the clock. For example, Reykjavik’s sunset around the June solstice is shortly after midnight. The +1d marker shows that the event falls on the next calendar day in local time.
Is my location sent anywhere?
No. If you press Use my location, your browser asks for permission and passes the coordinates to this page only. All calculations run in your browser, and neither your location nor your searches are sent to or stored on a server.
About this tool
This sunrise and sunset calculator shows when the sun rises and sets for any place on Earth, on any date, in that place’s local time. Beyond the two headline times it lists solar noon and the sun’s height at noon, day length and how much it changed since the day before, the sunrise and sunset directions on the compass, all three twilights, and the morning and evening golden and blue hours. You can search a built-in list of more than 1,100 world cities, use your device’s location, or type exact coordinates for a beach, a trailhead or a field.
The times are computed in your browser with the NOAA solar position equations, the same method behind NOAA’s own solar calculator. For each date the tool finds solar noon, then solves for the moments the sun’s centre crosses a set of altitudes: −0.833° for sunrise and sunset (accounting for atmospheric refraction and the size of the sun’s disc), −6°, −12° and −18° for civil, nautical and astronomical twilight, and −4° and +6° for the golden and blue hour boundaries. Times are then shown in the location’s IANA time zone using your browser’s built-in time zone data, so daylight saving changes are applied on the right dates.
The month table lists sunrise, sunset, day length, solar noon and civil twilight for every day of the chosen month, and can be downloaded as a CSV file for planning shoots, events or trips. The year chart shows daylight and twilight across all twelve months: switch between the sunrise and sunset view, where you can see the clock jump at daylight saving changes, and the day length curve, which peaks at the summer solstice and bottoms out at the winter solstice. Tap any day on the chart to jump to it.
The calculator also handles the polar regions. Above the Arctic Circle or below the Antarctic Circle it recognises midnight sun and polar night and says so plainly, while still reporting the twilight that brightens the sky around midday in winter. City coordinates and time zones come from GeoNames (geonames.org), used under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence.