Sunrise and sunset in Arapiles

The sun comes up at 8:00 am and goes down at 8:15 pm in Arapiles today, 12 h 15 min of daylight. Drag the sun across the sky to see where it will be at any minute. Another city.

Arapiles, Madrid, Spain

Sunday, September 20

Sunrise8:00 am
Sunset8:15 pm

12:59 pm the sun is 48 degrees up in the south-southeast

Drag the sun. Arrow keys move a minute, Shift for fifteen.

ARAPILES 40.43 N 3.71 W DAY 12 H 15 MIN UTC+2

Today, hour by hour

First light
6:28 am astronomical dawn
Nautical dawn
7:01 am horizon becomes visible
Dawn
7:33 am civil twilight begins
Sunrise
8:00 am
Golden hour
7:43 am to 8:36 am morning
Solar noon
2:08 pm sun 51 degrees up
Golden hour
7:39 pm to 8:32 pm evening
Sunset
8:15 pm
Dusk
8:42 pm civil twilight ends
Nautical dusk
9:14 pm
Last light
9:47 pm astronomical dusk, full dark
Day length
12 h 15 min −2 min 39 s vs yesterday

The next thirty days

DaySunriseSunsetDay lengthChange
Today8:00 am8:15 pm12 h 15 min−2 min 39 s
Tomorrow8:01 am8:13 pm12 h 13 min−2 min 39 s
Tue, Sep 228:02 am8:12 pm12 h 10 min−2 min 39 s
Wed, Sep 238:03 am8:10 pm12 h 07 min−2 min 39 s
Thu, Sep 248:04 am8:08 pm12 h 05 min−2 min 39 s
Fri, Sep 258:05 am8:07 pm12 h 02 min−2 min 39 s
Sat, Sep 268:06 am8:05 pm11 h 59 min−2 min 39 s
Sun, Sep 278:07 am8:03 pm11 h 57 min−2 min 39 s
Mon, Sep 288:08 am8:02 pm11 h 54 min−2 min 39 s
Tue, Sep 298:09 am8:00 pm11 h 51 min−2 min 39 s
Wed, Sep 308:10 am7:58 pm11 h 49 min−2 min 39 s
Thu, Oct 18:11 am7:57 pm11 h 46 min−2 min 39 s
Fri, Oct 28:12 am7:55 pm11 h 43 min−2 min 39 s
Sat, Oct 38:13 am7:53 pm11 h 41 min−2 min 38 s
Sun, Oct 48:14 am7:52 pm11 h 38 min−2 min 38 s
Mon, Oct 58:15 am7:50 pm11 h 35 min−2 min 38 s
Tue, Oct 68:16 am7:49 pm11 h 33 min−2 min 38 s
Wed, Oct 78:17 am7:47 pm11 h 30 min−2 min 38 s
Thu, Oct 88:18 am7:45 pm11 h 28 min−2 min 37 s
Fri, Oct 98:19 am7:44 pm11 h 25 min−2 min 37 s
Sat, Oct 108:20 am7:42 pm11 h 22 min−2 min 37 s
Sun, Oct 118:21 am7:41 pm11 h 20 min−2 min 36 s
Mon, Oct 128:22 am7:39 pm11 h 17 min−2 min 36 s
Tue, Oct 138:23 am7:38 pm11 h 15 min−2 min 36 s
Wed, Oct 148:24 am7:36 pm11 h 12 min−2 min 35 s
Thu, Oct 158:25 am7:34 pm11 h 09 min−2 min 35 s
Fri, Oct 168:26 am7:33 pm11 h 07 min−2 min 34 s
Sat, Oct 178:27 am7:31 pm11 h 04 min−2 min 34 s
Sun, Oct 188:28 am7:30 pm11 h 02 min−2 min 33 s
Mon, Oct 198:29 am7:29 pm10 h 59 min−2 min 33 s

Reading the sky band

The band is one day in Arapiles, midnight to midnight, in its own local time. The curve is the sun's height: above the line it is up, below it is not. The dark bands are the three twilights and night; the lighter stripe either side of sunrise and sunset is the golden hour, and the thin cool stripe after it is the blue hour. Drag the sun to any minute and the readout says how high it is and which way to look.

Dawn, sunrise, dusk and the three twilights

Sunrise and sunset are when the top edge of the sun meets a flat horizon, with refraction bending the light so it shows up a little early and lingers a little late (the sun's centre is 0.833 degrees below the horizon at that moment). Civil twilight is the sun within 6 degrees below: bright enough to work outside without lights. Nautical twilight runs to 12 degrees, when sailors could still see the horizon to shoot a star. Astronomical twilight runs to 18 degrees; after that the sky is as dark as it gets.

Why the times drift

Day length in Arapiles changes fastest around the equinoxes in March and September and stalls at the solstices in June and December. The change column in the table is today against yesterday, so you can watch the evenings draw in or stretch out. Hills, buildings and haze at your actual horizon shift the real moment by a minute or several; these are the times for a flat, clear horizon at sea level.

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