Sunrise & sunset around the world

Pick a date and a city to see when the sun rises and sets, and how Earth's tilt makes the answer wildly different from one latitude to another.

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Day length on , sorted longest to shortest:

The further from the equator, the bigger the swing. Equatorial cities stay near 12h all year; polar cities get 24-hour daylight or 24-hour night around the solstices.

The curve is Earth's 23.44° axial tilt in action. As Earth orbits the sun, the hemisphere tilted toward it gets longer days (summer solstice, ~June 21 in the north / ~December 21 in the south); the opposite hemisphere gets shorter days. Cities right on the equator barely move. The further from the equator you go, the bigger the seasonal swing.

Sunrise/sunset computed with the NOAA solar position algorithm (Spencer 1971 / Iqbal 1983 formulation for the equation of time and solar declination). Refraction-corrected zenith of 90.833° is used. Local times are produced via the IANA timezone database in your browser, so daylight-saving time is handled correctly for past and future dates. Sources: NOAA Solar Calculator, Iqbal, An Introduction to Solar Radiation (Academic Press, 1983).