Sunrise and Sunset Times in Missouri

Sunrise and Sunset in Missouri

The 30 Missouri cities listed here span 2.7° of latitude, from Joplin in the south (37.1°N) to St. Joseph in the north (39.8°N). On the June solstice that puts about 14h 59m of daylight over St. Joseph against 14h 43m over Joplin — a 17m difference inside one state. In December the gap reverses, and the southern cities are the ones holding more light.

The median Missouri city swings 5h 26m between the solstices, within a quarter-hour of the national median of 5h 16m — so Missouri experiences a fairly typical American year of daylight.

Seasons bite hardest in St. Joseph, where daylight swings 5h 38m between the solstices, and least in Joplin at 5h 6m. The table above lists both figures for every city, so you can see where any town falls between those two extremes.

Missouri sits entirely in Central Time. Longitude decides how a city's clock lines up with its Sun: St. Joseph sits furthest west inside its zone, which puts mean solar noon about 19 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.