Sunrise and Sunset Times in Montana
Find today's sunrise, sunset, golden hour, and twilight times for cities in Montana. 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. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Billings Yellowstone area | 15h 44m | 8h 40m | 7h 4m | +14 min | 129,267 |
| Missoula Missoula area | 15h 53m | 8h 32m | 7h 21m | +36 min | 90,522 |
| Great Falls Cascade area | 15h 58m | 8h 26m | 7h 32m | +25 min | 68,580 |
| Bozeman Gallatin area | 15h 43m | 8h 41m | 7h 2m | +24 min | 62,258 |
| Butte Silver Bow area | 15h 44m | 8h 39m | 7h 5m | +31 min | 35,052 |
| Helena Lewis and Clark area | 15h 50m | 8h 34m | 7h 17m | +28 min | 33,639 |
| Kalispell Flathead area | 16h 5m | 8h 20m | 7h 44m | +37 min | 28,504 |
Sunrise and Sunset in Montana
The 7 Montana cities listed here span 2.5° of latitude, from Bozeman in the south (45.7°N) to Kalispell in the north (48.2°N). On the June solstice that puts about 16h 5m of daylight over Kalispell against 15h 43m over Bozeman — a 22m difference inside one state. In December the gap reverses, and the southern cities are the ones holding more light.
The median Montana city swings 7h 17m between the solstices against a national median of 5h 16m, so seasons here move the clock 2h 0m more than they do in a typical American city.
Seasons bite hardest in Kalispell, where daylight swings 7h 44m between the solstices, and least in Bozeman at 7h 2m. The table above lists both figures for every city, so you can see where any town falls between those two extremes.
Montana sits entirely in Mountain Time. Longitude decides how a city's clock lines up with its Sun: Kalispell sits furthest west inside its zone, which puts mean solar noon about 37 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.