Sunrise & Sunset — Any Location
Sun times for the place you pick below. Not just the big cities: search any town, or use your exact GPS position. All times are local to the place shown.
Daylight
Sunrise — · Sunset —
The curve is how high the sun climbs through the day; the band beneath it runs from first light to last light.
24-hour sun clock
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First and last light are civil twilight — the sun less than 6° below the horizon. Accurate to a minute or two.
Where the sun is right now
Press Play, or drag: end to end is one full turn of the moon round the Earth — 29 days and 13 hours
That angle sets the tides, too. The moon does most of the pulling and the sun about half as much, so when the two line up — new moon and full moon — their pulls add and the tide runs to its biggest (spring tides); when they sit square on at the quarters the pulls fight and it runs to its smallest (neaps). The coast follows a day or two behind, and the shape of the shore matters as much as the sky does.
Also see the Sun, Earth & Moon movement simulator, to watch how the three move together over a day, a week or a month.
Altitude is how far above the horizon the sun sits; azimuth is the compass bearing to look along, measured clockwise from north.
Twilight, golden hour & blue hour
The three twilights are just how far the sun is below the horizon: civil to −6° (bright enough to read outside), nautical to −12° (the horizon is still visible at sea), astronomical to −18° (true darkness for stargazing). Golden hour is the warm, low-angle light photographers love, when the sun sits between −4° and +6°; blue hour is the deep-blue band just beyond it, from −6° to −4°. A dash means the sun never gets that low here on this date.