Des Moines, Iowa Sunset Time Today

Sunrise time in Des Moines

The sun rises in Des Moines at 7:01 AM today and at 7:02 AM tomorrow (1 minute later than today).

First light comes before the sun itself: civil twilight — the blue-hour glow already bright enough to see by — begins at 6:34 AM.

For photographers, the morning golden hour — the warm, low-angle light until the sun climbs 6° — runs from 7:01 AM to 7:38 AM.

Des Moines daylight month by month

The 1st of each month in 2026, in local time.

Des Moines’s longest and shortest days

From 15h 12m of daylight on June 21, 2026 to 9h 10m on December 21, 2026.

How fast Des Moines gains and loses daylight

Daily rate at mid-month; net change across the month.

Des Moines golden hour & blue hour by season

The same altitude-based windows as today’s card, at each solstice and equinox.

Daylight saving time in Des Moines

Clocks move an hour; the daylight doesn’t change.

Why sunset time shifts in Des Moines

Sunset drifts through the year with Earth’s ~23.4° axial tilt — see the full daylight explainer.

In Des Moines, the longest day carries about 15h 12m of daylight and the shortest just 9h 10m — a swing of roughly 6h 2m between the June and December solstices. The farther a place sits from the equator, the wider that gap; the pace also isn’t steady, moving fastest near the equinoxes and barely at all near the solstices. Every figure here is computed from the sun’s position for Des Moines’s exact coordinates, in local time.