The sun, for any place and any day

Sunrise and sunset, golden hour, the sun’s path over your home and much more, calculated precisely and explained clearly.

Sunrise6:53 AM

Sunset6:38 PM

Evening golden hour6:02 PM–6:55 PM

Day length11 h 45 min

6:53 AM Sunrise6:38 PM Sunset

Sun times for your location

Where is the sun right now?

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The sun’s direction and height over your location, with its path through the day. Switch to 3D to see buildings and terrain.

2:36 AM

The sun is below the horizon. Azimuth41° NE Elevation-44.7°

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Where it is day and night right now

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2:36 AM

Photo: NPS/Jeremy M. White

Coming up in the sky

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The next eclipses, solstices, equinoxes and clock changes, with the time where you are.

Next · Clock changes Clocks go back in Europe 2026 Time in UTC Sunday, October 25, 01:00 Time remaining 23 d 18 h 24 min

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Free calculators for the sun at any place and date: when it rises and sets, how much light your home and garden get, and where it is in the sky.

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When does the sun rise and set?

Sunrise and sunset, golden hour, day length and solar noon for any place and date, with twilight times, monthly tables and yearly charts.

Sun and your space

How much sun does your space get?

Tools for your house, balcony, garden and solar panels, based on the real path of the sun through the year.

Maps and events

Follow the sun on the map

The sun’s direction and path on a map and in 3D, where it is day and night around the world, and the coming eclipses and solstices.

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Sunrise and sunset in popular cities

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Understand the sun

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What is golden hour and blue hour?When the warm light of golden hour and the deep blue of blue hour happen, why they look the way they do, and how long they last where you live.Civil, nautical and astronomical twilight explainedThe three stages of twilight, what you can see in each of them, how long they last at different latitudes, and why summer nights in the north never get fully dark.Why the earliest sunset is not on the shortest dayThe earliest sunset and the latest sunrise do not fall on the winter solstice. The reason is the equation of time, and it is easy to see in real numbers.How sunrise and sunset times are calculatedWhat exactly counts as sunrise, why the calculation uses 0.833° below the horizon, what refraction and elevation do, and how accurate the minutes you see really are.What is solar noon?Solar noon is when the sun reaches its highest point. Here is why that is almost never at 12:00 on your clock, and how to work out when it happens.Solstices and equinoxes explainedWhat the solstices and equinoxes are, why their dates move between years, and what they mean for daylight where you live, with exact dates and times.

Why Heliotempo

Accurate

Calculations use established astronomical algorithms, checked against official almanac data.

Clear

Every result starts with a plain answer, followed by charts and explanations.

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Fast pages and tools that work well with one hand, outdoors.