This calculator gives you sunrise, sunset, solar noon, and the full sequence of twilight times for any location and date. Times are computed from the sun’s position for your exact coordinates, then shown in the local time zone — with daylight saving handled automatically.
Golden hour is the period after sunrise and before sunset when the sun sits low and light turns warm and soft — the hour photographers and videographers plan their shoots around. After sunset, light fades in three stages: civil twilight (still bright enough to read outdoors), nautical twilight (the horizon blurs and the first stars appear), and astronomical twilight (the last faint glow before true night, when deep-sky observing begins).
Solar noon — when the sun is highest — rarely lands exactly at 12:00 on the clock. Your clock follows a time zone that can span hundreds of miles, and the Earth’s tilt and elliptical orbit shift the sun’s timing through the year. The gap can be well over half an hour, which is why this tool shows the real solar noon rather than assuming midday.
The farther you are from the equator, the more daylight swings between seasons — high latitudes can have very long summer days and very short winter ones.
Yes. Sun and twilight times are computed on your device, so once the page has loaded it needs no connection.
They’re accurate to about a minute for most locations. Local terrain — mountains, tall buildings — can shift the moment you actually see the sun.