Sunrise and sunset in Köping

The sun comes up at 7:25 am and goes down at 3:52 pm in Köping today, 8 h 26 min of daylight. Drag the sun across the sky to see where it will be at any minute. Another city.

Köping, Vaestmanland, Sweden

Thursday, November 5

Sunrise7:25 am
Sunset3:52 pm

4:30 am the sun is night, 22 degrees below the horizon

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KÖPING 59.51 N 15.99 E DAY 8 H 26 MIN UTC+1

Today, hour by hour

First light
5:03 am astronomical dawn
Nautical dawn
5:51 am horizon becomes visible
Dawn
6:40 am civil twilight begins
Sunrise
7:25 am
Golden hour
6:57 am to 8:34 am morning
Solar noon
11:39 am sun 15 degrees up
Golden hour
2:43 pm to 4:20 pm evening
Sunset
3:52 pm
Dusk
4:37 pm civil twilight ends
Nautical dusk
5:26 pm
Last light
6:14 pm astronomical dusk, full dark
Day length
8 h 26 min −4 min 58 s vs yesterday

The next thirty days

DaySunriseSunsetDay lengthChange
Today7:25 am3:52 pm8 h 26 min−4 min 58 s
Tomorrow7:28 am3:49 pm8 h 22 min−4 min 56 s
Sat, Nov 77:30 am3:47 pm8 h 17 min−4 min 54 s
Sun, Nov 87:33 am3:45 pm8 h 12 min−4 min 52 s
Mon, Nov 97:35 am3:42 pm8 h 07 min−4 min 50 s
Tue, Nov 107:38 am3:40 pm8 h 02 min−4 min 47 s
Wed, Nov 117:40 am3:38 pm7 h 57 min−4 min 45 s
Thu, Nov 127:43 am3:36 pm7 h 53 min−4 min 42 s
Fri, Nov 137:45 am3:33 pm7 h 48 min−4 min 39 s
Sat, Nov 147:48 am3:31 pm7 h 43 min−4 min 37 s
Sun, Nov 157:50 am3:29 pm7 h 39 min−4 min 33 s
Mon, Nov 167:53 am3:27 pm7 h 34 min−4 min 30 s
Tue, Nov 177:55 am3:25 pm7 h 30 min−4 min 27 s
Wed, Nov 187:58 am3:23 pm7 h 26 min−4 min 23 s
Thu, Nov 198:00 am3:21 pm7 h 21 min−4 min 19 s
Fri, Nov 208:02 am3:19 pm7 h 17 min−4 min 15 s
Sat, Nov 218:05 am3:17 pm7 h 13 min−4 min 10 s
Sun, Nov 228:07 am3:16 pm7 h 09 min−4 min 06 s
Mon, Nov 238:09 am3:14 pm7 h 05 min−4 min 01 s
Tue, Nov 248:12 am3:12 pm7 h 01 min−3 min 56 s
Wed, Nov 258:14 am3:11 pm6 h 57 min−3 min 51 s
Thu, Nov 268:16 am3:09 pm6 h 53 min−3 min 45 s
Fri, Nov 278:18 am3:08 pm6 h 49 min−3 min 39 s
Sat, Nov 288:20 am3:06 pm6 h 46 min−3 min 33 s
Sun, Nov 298:22 am3:05 pm6 h 42 min−3 min 27 s
Mon, Nov 308:24 am3:04 pm6 h 39 min−3 min 21 s
Tue, Dec 18:26 am3:02 pm6 h 36 min−3 min 14 s
Wed, Dec 28:28 am3:01 pm6 h 33 min−3 min 07 s
Thu, Dec 38:30 am3:00 pm6 h 30 min−2 min 59 s
Fri, Dec 48:32 am2:59 pm6 h 27 min−2 min 52 s

Reading the sky band

The band is one day in Köping, 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 Köping 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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