Sunrise and Sunset Times in Nebraska
Find today's sunrise, sunset, golden hour, and twilight times for cities in Nebraska. 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. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Omaha Douglas area | 15h 9m | 9h 12m | 5h 58m | +24 min | 836,740 |
| Lincoln Lancaster area | 15h 6m | 9h 15m | 5h 52m | +27 min | 298,056 |
| Bellevue Sarpy area | 15h 9m | 9h 12m | 5h 56m | +24 min | 64,510 |
| Grand Island Hall area | 15h 7m | 9h 14m | 5h 53m | +33 min | 52,884 |
| Kearney Buffalo area | 15h 6m | 9h 15m | 5h 50m | +36 min | 34,246 |
| Fremont Dodge area | 15h 11m | 9h 11m | 6h 0m | +26 min | 27,567 |
| Norfolk Madison area | 15h 15m | 9h 7m | 6h 8m | +30 min | 26,054 |
| Papillion Sarpy area | 15h 9m | 9h 12m | 5h 56m | +24 min | 25,244 |
| Hastings Adams area | 15h 5m | 9h 16m | 5h 49m | +34 min | 25,008 |
Sunrise and Sunset in Nebraska
The 9 Nebraska cities listed here span 1.4° of latitude, from Hastings in the south (40.6°N) to Norfolk in the north (42.0°N). On the June solstice that puts about 15h 15m of daylight over Norfolk against 15h 5m over Hastings — a 10m difference inside one state. In December the gap reverses, and the southern cities are the ones holding more light.
The median Nebraska city swings 5h 56m between the solstices against a national median of 5h 16m, so seasons here move the clock 40m more than they do in a typical American city.
Seasons bite hardest in Norfolk, where daylight swings 6h 8m between the solstices, and least in Hastings at 5h 49m. The table above lists both figures for every city, so you can see where any town falls between those two extremes.
Nebraska sits entirely in Central Time. Longitude decides how a city's clock lines up with its Sun: Kearney sits furthest west inside its zone, which puts mean solar noon about 36 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.