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How to read New York sunrise and sunset times

The time shown above belongs to the selected date in New York, not to the date on your own device. The calculation uses a representative point near the city center at latitude 40.714 and longitude -74.006. If you are outside that point, especially far across a large metropolitan area, your observed time can differ. Use the date picker to check another day; the address bar keeps your selected date so you can return to it.

Sunrise is the morning event and sunset is the evening event for the same local calendar date. The daylight figure is the elapsed time between those two events, expressed in hours and minutes. The monthly table lets you compare each date without changing pages. Read across a row to compare the two event times and the length of that day; read down a column to see how the season changes the schedule. The table is calculated for the selected month, so changing the date can also change the month shown below.

Every displayed clock time uses the America/New_York time zone. The offset printed next to the date tells you which UTC offset applies on that particular day. When daylight saving time begins or ends, the civil clock can shift even if sunrise and sunset change gradually in solar terms. The table applies the local time-zone rule separately to every date, including a month that crosses a clock change. Compare dates using their printed local times and offsets instead of assuming one fixed offset for the whole month.

The result is rounded to the nearest minute. Buildings, hills, a sea horizon, elevation, atmospheric conditions and your precise position can affect when the Sun appears or disappears to you. A clear view from the city center is not the same as every balcony, street or trail in New York. This is a planning tool for ordinary use, not a navigation, safety or emergency clock. If an exact event matters for a critical decision, check a suitable local authoritative source and the conditions at your location.

Find sun times for a supported city

The homepage starts with New York because it needs one explicit local meaning for “today.” It does not use your device location or silently change the city. Choose San Diego, San Francisco, New York, Chicago, Las Vegas or Portland, Oregon from the city links. The city search accepts those six names and a few common New York and Portland spellings; an unsupported city returns an explanation instead of an invented result. Each city has its own page and local time zone, so the same instant can belong to different calendar dates in different places.

Use “Copy times” when you want a compact text summary of the selected city, date, sunrise, sunset and time zone. “Print month” uses the native print dialog in your browser for the monthly table. These actions work with the result you are viewing; they do not create an account, send an alert, or save a personal schedule. For a new date, select it above and check that the displayed date and clock offset match what you intended before sharing or printing.

If another service gives a slightly different answer, first compare the city, date, time zone and location used by each source. One source may use a different point in the same city or round at a different stage; a visible horizon can also differ from a city-center calculation. A clock change near the selected date can make a one-hour discrepancy look like an astronomical difference when it is really a time-zone setting. Our methodology explains the calculation and its limits.