Sunrise and Sunset Times in West Virginia
Find today's sunrise, sunset, golden hour, and twilight times for cities in West Virginia. 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. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Huntington Cabell area | 14h 51m | 9h 29m | 5h 22m | +30 min | 192,569 |
| Charleston Kanawha area | 14h 50m | 9h 30m | 5h 21m | +27 min | 137,865 |
| Morgantown Monongalia area | 14h 59m | 9h 22m | 5h 37m | +20 min | 77,875 |
| Parkersburg Wood area | 14h 56m | 9h 24m | 5h 32m | +26 min | 29,240 |
| Wheeling Ohio area | 15h 1m | 9h 19m | 5h 42m | +23 min | 26,350 |
Sunrise and Sunset in West Virginia
The 5 West Virginia cities listed here span 1.7° of latitude, from Charleston in the south (38.3°N) to Wheeling in the north (40.1°N). On the June solstice that puts about 15h 1m of daylight over Wheeling against 14h 50m over Charleston — a 11m difference inside one state. In December the gap reverses, and the southern cities are the ones holding more light.
The median West Virginia city swings 5h 32m between the solstices against a national median of 5h 16m, so seasons here move the clock 16m more than they do in a typical American city.
Seasons bite hardest in Wheeling, where daylight swings 5h 42m between the solstices, and least in Charleston at 5h 21m. The table above lists both figures for every city, so you can see where any town falls between those two extremes.
West Virginia sits entirely in Eastern Time. Longitude decides how a city's clock lines up with its Sun: Huntington sits furthest west inside its zone, which puts mean solar noon about 30 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.