Sunrise and Sunset Times in South Carolina

Find today's sunrise, sunset, golden hour, and twilight times for cities in South Carolina. Select a city below or use the search to find your location.

Largest Cities

Charleston Columbia Greenville Myrtle Beach Rock Hill

Northernmost city

Fort Mill

35.0°N · 14h 31m on the June solstice

Southernmost city

Hilton Head Island

32.2°N · 14h 16m on the June solstice

Most seasonal

Fort Mill

4h 43m solstice-to-solstice swing

Median city vs. nation

4h 30m swing

national median 5h 16m

Sun furthest behind the clock

Anderson

solar noon ≈ 31 min after 12:00

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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.
Charleston Charleston area	14h 19m	9h 59m	4h 20m	+20 min	734,681
Columbia Richland area	14h 26m	9h 53m	4h 32m	+24 min	610,536
Greenville Greenville area	14h 30m	9h 49m	4h 41m	+29 min	402,612
Myrtle Beach Horry area	14h 24m	9h 55m	4h 29m	+16 min	348,669
Rock Hill York area	14h 31m	9h 48m	4h 42m	+24 min	240,159
Spartanburg Spartanburg area	14h 31m	9h 48m	4h 42m	+28 min	218,799
Mauldin Greenville area	14h 30m	9h 49m	4h 40m	+29 min	189,546
North Charleston Charleston area	14h 19m	9h 59m	4h 21m	+20 min	119,913
Mount Pleasant Charleston area	14h 19m	9h 59m	4h 20m	+19 min	93,993
Florence Florence area	14h 26m	9h 52m	4h 34m	+19 min	90,753
Sumter Sumter area	14h 25m	9h 54m	4h 31m	+22 min	71,541
Beaufort Beaufort area	14h 17m	10h 1m	4h 16m	+23 min	65,303
Summerville Dorchester area	14h 20m	9h 58m	4h 22m	+21 min	51,654
Goose Creek Berkeley area	14h 20m	9h 58m	4h 22m	+20 min	48,078
Greer Greenville area	14h 30m	9h 48m	4h 42m	+29 min	41,536
Hilton Head Island Beaufort area	14h 16m	10h 2m	4h 13m	+23 min	37,911
Bluffton Beaufort area	14h 16m	10h 2m	4h 14m	+24 min	33,157
Aiken Aiken area	14h 23m	9h 56m	4h 27m	+27 min	32,521
Fort Mill York area	14h 31m	9h 48m	4h 43m	+24 min	30,775
Anderson Anderson area	14h 28m	9h 51m	4h 38m	+31 min	30,051
Conway Horry area	14h 24m	9h 54m	4h 30m	+16 min	27,263
Carolina Forest Horry area	14h 24m	9h 55m	4h 30m	+16 min	26,263
Simpsonville Greenville area	14h 29m	9h 50m	4h 40m	+29 min	26,144
North Augusta Aiken area	14h 23m	9h 56m	4h 27m	+28 min	25,653

Sunrise and Sunset in South Carolina

The 24 South Carolina cities listed here span 2.8° of latitude, from Hilton Head Island in the south (32.2°N) to Fort Mill in the north (35.0°N). On the June solstice that puts about 14h 31m of daylight over Fort Mill against 14h 16m over Hilton Head Island — a 15m difference inside one state. In December the gap reverses, and the southern cities are the ones holding more light.

The median South Carolina city swings 4h 30m between the solstices against a national median of 5h 16m, so South Carolina has a 46m gentler year of daylight than a typical American city.

Seasons bite hardest in Fort Mill, where daylight swings 4h 43m between the solstices, and least in Hilton Head Island at 4h 13m. The table above lists both figures for every city, so you can see where any town falls between those two extremes.

South Carolina sits entirely in Eastern Time. Longitude decides how a city's clock lines up with its Sun: Anderson sits furthest west inside its zone, which puts mean solar noon about 31 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.