Sunrise & Sunset Calculator
Find approximate sunrise and sunset times for any date and location, using a standard solar-position calculation.
Sunrise and sunset times depend on a genuinely more complex set of variables than most people expect: not just the date, but the specific latitude and longitude of your location, since how much daylight a place gets on any given day depends on how far it sits from the equator and exactly where the sun's position falls relative to the horizon there — which is why sunrise in a city at high latitude shifts far more dramatically across the seasons than sunrise near the equator does.
That's the reason a sunrise and sunset calculator needs a location as an input rather than working from the date alone the way a moon phase calculation can — the sun's visibility genuinely is a local phenomenon, not a universal one, unlike the moon's phase, which is identical everywhere on a given date regardless of where you're standing.
This tool uses a standard solar position calculation to estimate sunrise and sunset for any date and location you enter, accurate to within a couple of minutes for most practical purposes. It's a foundational calculation that other tools on this site build on — both the Golden Hour Calculator and the Live Sunset/Sunrise Countdown use the same underlying solar math, just presented for a different specific purpose.
- Pick a date.
- Enter your location's latitude and longitude.
- Press Calculate to see sunrise and sunset times in UTC.
A quick web search for "[your city] latitude longitude" will give you these numbers, or most map apps show coordinates when you tap a location.
Showing UTC avoids ambiguity across time zones and daylight saving rules — convert to your local time using the Time Zone Converter tool, or do the math using your known UTC offset.