Sunrise & Sunset Times
Know when the light is right. Find sunrise, sunset, golden hour, and twilight for 15,000+ US places, with local calendars for your next day outdoors.
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The Sun Across America, Live
Where is the sun right now?
Each dot is a real US place, colored by the Sun's state at that spot at the current moment — watch the sunrise and sunset lines sweep west across the country during the day. Switch to day length to see how latitude stretches or shrinks daylight from Puerto Rico to the Alaskan Arctic. Computed live in your browser from each city's coordinates; hover or tap a dot for its times, or use the map’s place selector. Search above to open a full calendar.
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Accuracy checks & methodology
Independently Checked for Accuracy
We double-check our sunrise and sunset times against astronomy-engine, a well-established astronomical calculator built by someone else — so we're never just grading our own work. Across 14 tested location/date pairs, the average absolute difference is 1.8 seconds. The sample spans seasons and includes daylight-saving boundaries and polar conditions. This comparison checks the implementation, not local terrain or weather. We treat an algorithmic gap of more than 15 seconds as a problem to fix. This validation snapshot was last checked October 1, 2026. Why we started measuring this →
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Common Questions
What time does the sun set today?
Sunset time depends on your location and the date. Search for your city above — every city page calculates today’s sunset from representative city-center coordinates and shows it in local time, along with sunrise, golden hour, and twilight.
Why do sunrise and sunset times change every day?
The Earth’s axis is tilted about 23.44 degrees relative to its orbit, so the Sun’s path through the sky shifts through the year. Days lengthen from the December solstice to the June solstice and shorten again after. The change is fastest near the equinoxes — sunset can move two to three minutes per day in March and September — and slowest near the solstices.
What is golden hour?
Golden hour is the period when the Sun sits between the horizon and about 6 degrees above it — shortly after sunrise and before sunset. Sunlight passes through more atmosphere, producing warm, soft, directional light. Its true length varies by latitude and season, from around 30 minutes in southern states to well over an hour in northern ones.
What are civil, nautical, and astronomical twilight?
They are the three stages of fading light after sunset (and before sunrise), defined by how far the Sun sits below the horizon: civil twilight is 0–6 degrees (bright enough for most outdoor activity), nautical twilight is 6–12 degrees, and astronomical twilight is 12–18 degrees, after which the sky is fully dark.
How accurate are the times on this site?
Times are computed with established astronomical algorithms from each city’s center coordinates and rounded to the nearest minute. Atmospheric refraction, elevation, the visible horizon, and your distance from that center point can move an observed event by several minutes.
Do the times account for daylight saving time?
Yes. All times are shown in each city’s local timezone with daylight saving applied automatically, including for regions that do not observe it, such as most of Arizona, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico.
About This Tool
Every city page on this site is computed from that city's center coordinates and timezone — not copied from a regional table. Each one carries a live tracker for the current moment, a twelve-month sunrise and sunset table, the dates of the year's earliest and latest sunsets, a golden-hour calendar, the effect of daylight-saving clock changes, and clear-sky solar-energy figures, all calculated with established astronomical algorithms.
The numbers matter more than most people expect. Sunset can differ by 40 minutes between two cities in the same state, the latest sunset of the year never falls on the longest day, and the clock changes in March and November move sunrise and sunset more in one night than the Sun does in three weeks. The articles explain the why behind the numbers — from twilight phases and the equation of time to golden-hour photography and safe driving with low sun.
The site is independent and free to use. If a number looks wrong or an explanation is unclear, tell us — corrections are reviewed and credited. You can read more about the data and methods on the about page.