Sunrise and Sunset Times in Virginia

Sunrise and Sunset in Virginia

The 47 Virginia cities listed here span 2.6° of latitude, from Danville in the south (36.6°N) to Winchester in the north (39.2°N). On the June solstice that puts about 14h 56m of daylight over Winchester against 14h 40m over Danville — a 16m difference inside one state. In December the gap reverses, and the southern cities are the ones holding more light.

The median Virginia city swings 5h 24m between the solstices, within a quarter-hour of the national median of 5h 16m — so Virginia experiences a fairly typical American year of daylight.

Seasons bite hardest in Winchester, where daylight swings 5h 31m between the solstices, and least in Danville at 5h 0m. The table above lists both figures for every city, so you can see where any town falls between those two extremes.

Virginia sits entirely in Eastern Time. Longitude decides how a city's clock lines up with its Sun: Blacksburg sits furthest west inside its zone, which puts mean solar noon about 22 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.