Sunrise and Sunset Times in Maine
Find today's sunrise, sunset, golden hour, and twilight times for cities in Maine. 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. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Portland Cumberland area | 15h 27m | 8h 56m | 6h 31m | −19 min | 210,907 |
| Lewiston Androscoggin area | 15h 30m | 8h 53m | 6h 37m | −19 min | 38,324 |
| Bangor Penobscot area | 15h 36m | 8h 47m | 6h 49m | −25 min | 31,938 |
| South Portland Cumberland area | 15h 27m | 8h 56m | 6h 31m | −19 min | 26,930 |
Sunrise and Sunset in Maine
The 4 Maine cities listed here span 1.2° of latitude, from South Portland in the south (43.6°N) to Bangor in the north (44.8°N). On the June solstice that puts about 15h 36m of daylight over Bangor against 15h 27m over South Portland — a 9m difference inside one state. In December the gap reverses, and the southern cities are the ones holding more light.
The median Maine city swings 6h 34m between the solstices against a national median of 5h 16m, so seasons here move the clock 1h 18m more than they do in a typical American city.
Seasons bite hardest in Bangor, where daylight swings 6h 49m between the solstices, and least in South Portland at 6h 31m. The table above lists both figures for every city, so you can see where any town falls between those two extremes.
Maine sits entirely in Eastern Time. Longitude still decides how each city's clock lines up with its Sun — every city page states that offset explicitly.
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.