Sunrise and Sunset Times in Michigan

Sunrise and Sunset in Michigan

The 52 Michigan cities listed here span 1.4° of latitude, from Portage in the south (42.2°N) to Midland in the north (43.6°N). On the June solstice that puts about 15h 26m of daylight over Midland against 15h 16m over Portage — a 10m difference inside one state. In December the gap reverses, and the southern cities are the ones holding more light.

The median Michigan city swings 6h 15m between the solstices against a national median of 5h 16m, so seasons here move the clock 58m more than they do in a typical American city.

Seasons bite hardest in Midland, where daylight swings 6h 31m between the solstices, and least in Portage at 6h 10m. The table above lists both figures for every city, so you can see where any town falls between those two extremes.

Michigan sits entirely in Eastern Time. Longitude decides how a city's clock lines up with its Sun: Muskegon sits furthest west inside its zone, which puts mean solar noon about 45 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.