Sunrise and sunset in Caboolture

The sun comes up at 4:55 am and goes down at 6:08 pm in Caboolture today, 13 h 14 min of daylight. Drag the sun across the sky to see where it will be at any minute. Another city.

Caboolture, Queensland, Australia

Thursday, November 5

Sunrise4:55 am
Sunset6:08 pm

7:44 am the sun is 36 degrees up in the east

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CABOOLTURE 27.08 S 152.95 E DAY 13 H 14 MIN UTC+10

Today, hour by hour

First light
3:31 am astronomical dawn
Nautical dawn
4:01 am horizon becomes visible
Dawn
4:30 am civil twilight begins
Sunrise
4:55 am
Golden hour
4:40 am to 5:27 am morning
Solar noon
11:31 am sun 79 degrees up
Golden hour
5:36 pm to 6:23 pm evening
Sunset
6:08 pm
Dusk
6:33 pm civil twilight ends
Nautical dusk
7:02 pm
Last light
7:32 pm astronomical dusk, full dark
Day length
13 h 14 min +1 min 23 s vs yesterday

The next thirty days

DaySunriseSunsetDay lengthChange
Today4:55 am6:08 pm13 h 14 min+1 min 23 s
Tomorrow4:54 am6:09 pm13 h 15 min+1 min 22 s
Sat, Nov 74:53 am6:10 pm13 h 16 min+1 min 21 s
Sun, Nov 84:53 am6:10 pm13 h 18 min+1 min 21 s
Mon, Nov 94:52 am6:11 pm13 h 19 min+1 min 20 s
Tue, Nov 104:52 am6:12 pm13 h 20 min+1 min 19 s
Wed, Nov 114:51 am6:13 pm13 h 22 min+1 min 18 s
Thu, Nov 124:50 am6:13 pm13 h 23 min+1 min 16 s
Fri, Nov 134:50 am6:14 pm13 h 24 min+1 min 15 s
Sat, Nov 144:49 am6:15 pm13 h 25 min+1 min 14 s
Sun, Nov 154:49 am6:16 pm13 h 27 min+1 min 13 s
Mon, Nov 164:49 am6:16 pm13 h 28 min+1 min 12 s
Tue, Nov 174:48 am6:17 pm13 h 29 min+1 min 10 s
Wed, Nov 184:48 am6:18 pm13 h 30 min+1 min 09 s
Thu, Nov 194:47 am6:19 pm13 h 31 min+1 min 08 s
Fri, Nov 204:47 am6:20 pm13 h 32 min+1 min 06 s
Sat, Nov 214:47 am6:20 pm13 h 33 min+1 min 05 s
Sun, Nov 224:47 am6:21 pm13 h 35 min+1 min 03 s
Mon, Nov 234:46 am6:22 pm13 h 36 min+1 min 02 s
Tue, Nov 244:46 am6:23 pm13 h 37 min+1 min 00 s
Wed, Nov 254:46 am6:23 pm13 h 38 min+58 s
Thu, Nov 264:46 am6:24 pm13 h 38 min+57 s
Fri, Nov 274:46 am6:25 pm13 h 39 min+55 s
Sat, Nov 284:45 am6:26 pm13 h 40 min+53 s
Sun, Nov 294:45 am6:27 pm13 h 41 min+51 s
Mon, Nov 304:45 am6:27 pm13 h 42 min+49 s
Tue, Dec 14:45 am6:28 pm13 h 43 min+48 s
Wed, Dec 24:45 am6:29 pm13 h 44 min+46 s
Thu, Dec 34:45 am6:30 pm13 h 44 min+44 s
Fri, Dec 44:45 am6:30 pm13 h 45 min+42 s

Reading the sky band

The band is one day in Caboolture, 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 Caboolture 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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