Sunrise and Sunset Times in District of Columbia
Find today's sunrise, sunset, golden hour, and twilight times for cities in District of Columbia. 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. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Washington District of Columbia area | 14h 54m | 9h 26m | 5h 28m | +8 min | 5,230,370 |
Sunrise and Sunset in District of Columbia
District of Columbia has one city above this site's 25,000 urban-population threshold: Washington, at 38.9°N. It sees about 14h 54m of daylight on the June solstice. Its daylight swings 5h 28m between the solstices — close to the national median of 5h 16m.
District of Columbia sits in Eastern Time. Longitude decides how the clock lines up with the Sun: mean solar noon in Washington falls about 8 minutes after 12:00 standard time, so the Sun runs behind the clock here.
The city page carries the 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.