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
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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
Drag to move the sun and moon through the day
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.