Blue hour is the short stretch of twilight just before sunrise and just after sunset, when the sun is below the horizon but still lights the sky a deep, even blue. It typically lasts about 20 to 30 minutes and is prized for cool, soft light with no harsh shadows.

Sun & sky

Sunset & Sunrise Times by City

What time is sunset tonight, and when does the sun come up tomorrow? Each city page leads with today’s sunset and sunrise in local time, maps the morning and evening golden hour and blue hour, lists the week ahead, and tells you how many minutes of daylight you’re gaining or losing. Computed from the sun’s position — no ads, no app, across 31,257 U.S. cities.

How much daylight your city loses

Between the June and December solstices the American day shrinks by under 3 hours in Honolulu and almost 14 in Anchorage. See the 50-state map, solstice day lengths for notable metros, and your own city’s numbers by ZIP on the daylight-loss map.

Sunset times by city

The largest U.S. cities by population. Every city in the corpus has a sunset page at /sunset-time/[state]/[city].

Browse by state

Every state hub lists all of its cities’ sunset pages, largest first, with the state’s east-to-west sunset spread.

Sunset & twilight questions, answered

Frequently asked

What is blue hour?: Blue hour is the short stretch of twilight just before sunrise and just after sunset, when the sun is below the horizon but still lights the sky a deep, even blue. It typically lasts about 20 to 30 minutes and is prized for cool, soft light with no harsh shadows.