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Sunrise and Sunset Times in Kentucky

Find today's sunrise, sunset, golden hour, and twilight times for cities in Kentucky. Select a city below or use the search to find your location.

Largest Cities

Louisville Lexington Bowling Green Elizabethtown Owensboro
Northernmost city
Covington
39.0°N · 14h 55m on the June solstice
Southernmost city
Hopkinsville
36.8°N · 14h 41m on the June solstice
Most seasonal
Covington
5h 29m solstice-to-solstice swing
Median city vs. nation
5h 16m swing
national median 5h 16m
Sun furthest behind the clock
Elizabethtown
solar noon ≈ 44 min after 12:00

All Cities

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.
Louisville Jefferson area 14h 49m 9h 31m 5h 19m +43 min 988,018
Lexington Fayette area 14h 49m 9h 31m 5h 17m +38 min 323,725
Bowling Green Warren area 14h 42m 9h 37m 5h 5m −14 min 106,928
Elizabethtown Hardin area 14h 47m 9h 33m 5h 13m +44 min 81,379
Owensboro Daviess area 14h 47m 9h 33m 5h 14m −12 min 73,882
Covington Kenton area 14h 55m 9h 26m 5h 29m +38 min 41,110
Georgetown Scott area 14h 50m 9h 30m 5h 19m +38 min 39,117
Richmond Madison area 14h 47m 9h 33m 5h 14m +37 min 37,111
Florence Boone area 14h 55m 9h 26m 5h 29m +39 min 32,803
Nicholasville Jessamine area 14h 48m 9h 32m 5h 15m +38 min 32,197
Hopkinsville Christian area 14h 41m 9h 38m 5h 3m −10 min 30,906
Independence Kenton area 14h 54m 9h 26m 5h 28m +38 min 29,392
Jeffersontown Jefferson area 14h 50m 9h 30m 5h 19m +42 min 29,199
Frankfort Franklin area 14h 50m 9h 30m 5h 19m +39 min 28,503
Henderson Henderson area 14h 47m 9h 32m 5h 15m −10 min 27,852
Paducah McCracken area 14h 43m 9h 37m 5h 6m −5 min 26,845

Sunrise and Sunset in Kentucky

The 16 Kentucky cities listed here span 2.2° of latitude, from Hopkinsville in the south (36.8°N) to Covington in the north (39.0°N). On the June solstice that puts about 14h 55m of daylight over Covington against 14h 41m over Hopkinsville — a 13m difference inside one state. In December the gap reverses, and the southern cities are the ones holding more light.

The median Kentucky city swings 5h 16m between the solstices, within a quarter-hour of the national median of 5h 16m — so Kentucky experiences a fairly typical American year of daylight.

Seasons bite hardest in Covington, where daylight swings 5h 29m between the solstices, and least in Hopkinsville at 5h 3m. The table above lists both figures for every city, so you can see where any town falls between those two extremes.

Kentucky spans more than one time zone (Central Time and Eastern Time), so two cities here can be on different clocks despite similar longitudes. Longitude decides how a city's clock lines up with its Sun: Elizabethtown sits furthest west inside its zone, which puts mean solar noon about 44 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.