Sunrise and Sunset Times in Delaware
Find today's sunrise, sunset, golden hour, and twilight times for cities in Delaware. Select a city below or use the search to find your location.
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Longest and shortest day are the June and December solstice day lengths at each city's own coordinates. Sun vs. clock is how far mean solar noon falls from 12:00 standard time — negative means the Sun peaks before the clock says noon.
| City | Longest day | Shortest day | Swing | Sun vs. clock | Urban pop. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dover Kent area | 14h 56m | 9h 25m | 5h 31m | +2 min | 131,461 |
| Wilmington New Castle area | 14h 59m | 9h 21m | 5h 38m | +2 min | 71,727 |
| Newark New Castle area | 14h 59m | 9h 22m | 5h 37m | +3 min | 30,330 |
Sunrise and Sunset in Delaware
The 3 Delaware cities listed here span 0.6° of latitude, from Dover in the south (39.2°N) to Wilmington in the north (39.7°N). On the June solstice that puts about 14h 59m of daylight over Wilmington against 14h 56m over Dover — a 4m difference inside one state. In December the gap reverses, and the southern cities are the ones holding more light.
The median Delaware city swings 5h 37m between the solstices against a national median of 5h 16m, so seasons here move the clock 21m more than they do in a typical American city.
Seasons bite hardest in Wilmington, where daylight swings 5h 38m between the solstices, and least in Dover at 5h 31m. The table above lists both figures for every city, so you can see where any town falls between those two extremes.
Delaware sits entirely in Eastern Time. Longitude decides how a city's clock lines up with its Sun: Newark sits furthest west inside its zone, which puts mean solar noon about 3 minutes after clock noon and gives it the state's latest-running evenings for its longitude.
Each city page carries that city's full profile: today's sunrise and sunset on a live tracker, a twelve-month table of times, the dates of the year's earliest and latest sunsets, the Sun's midday height by season, a golden-hour calendar, clear-sky solar-energy figures, and where the city ranks against the rest of the country.