Sunrise and Sunset Times
Sunrise, sunset, solar noon, twilight bands and a full year of daylight. Computed in this tab. No account.
40.7128, -74.0060 · America/New York
Sunrise
6:26 AM
Sunset
7:23 PM
Solar noon
12:55 PM
Daylight
12h 57m
-2m 36s since yesterday
Twilight and photo windows
The times come from this tab
Most sunrise pages are a form in front of an API. You type a city, they look up a row, and the useful bit sits under a newsletter box. This page does not do that. Once the JavaScript has loaded, the sun position is computed here, from the latitude, the longitude and the date. Open the network panel, change the day, and you will not see a request go out.
That is why it still works on a plane and why there is no daily quota. The tradeoff is honest: I shipped a list of cities you can search, plus your own coordinates, plus the browser location prompt. I did not ship a live gazetteer. If your lake is not in the list, paste the pin from a map and the times are for that pin.
Twilight has names, and they mean degrees
Civil twilight is the sun 6 degrees below the horizon. That is the window where you can still read outside. Nautical is 12 degrees, astronomical is 18. Golden hour is the soft light after sunrise and before sunset, when the sun is low enough that the shadows get long. Blue hour is the civil twilight band, the one photographers mean when they say the sky turns that deep blue.
The table on this page uses those definitions, not mood lighting. If a band is missing, the sun never reached that altitude that day. That happens near the poles more often than people expect, and it is not a bug.
The year belongs on the same screen
A fisherman checking sunrise so he can leave the house in time does not need a year chart. A gardener watching the days stretch after the equinox does. The pages that rank for "sunrise time today" hide that curve behind a calendar widget or a paid app. Here it is the same place and the same math, plotted for every day of the year you picked.
The bump in June and the trough in December swap if you are south of the equator. The chart will tell you before the first frost article does. Download CSV if you want the minutes in a spreadsheet.
Polar day is not a missing sunrise
In Tromso in late June the sun does not set. In late December it does not rise. A lot of widgets print 12:00 AM for both and hope you do not notice. This page says the sun does not set, or does not rise, and the daylight number goes to 24 hours or to zero.
Solar noon still exists on those days. It is the moment the sun is highest, even if it never crosses the horizon. That time is still useful if you are trying to catch the brightest hour of a polar night.
Common questions
Does this page call a weather API?
No. After the page loads, sunrise and sunset are math in this tab. The library is a port of the NOAA solar position formulas. There is no forecast, no key, and no request that has to succeed for the numbers to appear. Unplug the cable and the times still update when you change the date.
Why is this a minute off from my phone?
Phones usually round to the nearest minute and some of them use the city center, not the pin you think they use. This page uses the coordinates on the screen and the IANA time zone for that point, including daylight saving. A one minute gap is normal. A one hour gap usually means the zone is wrong, which you can check by pasting the latitude and longitude yourself.
What happens above the Arctic Circle?
On some dates the sun does not rise. On others it does not set. The page says so, and the year chart goes flat at 0 hours or 24 hours for those stretches. Civil twilight can still happen on the shoulders of polar night, and those bands stay in the table when the library can compute them.
Can I send someone these times?
Yes. Copy link puts the coordinates and the date in the URL. The other person lands on the same place and the same day, with the year chart for that year. Nothing is stored on a server for that link. It is just the query string.
I wrote up why the incumbents are apps with a login, and why the year chart is the part they skip, in The Sun Does Not Need an Account.
Two more that also stay in the tab. The password generator never sends the password anywhere, and the word and character counter keeps a caption inside its limit. All of the free tools work the same way: no account, no watermark, nothing stored on a server.