Sunrise and sunset in Liberal

The sun comes up at 7:29 am and goes down at 7:44 pm in Liberal today, 12 h 16 min of daylight. Drag the sun across the sky to see where it will be at any minute. Another city.

Liberal, Kansas, United States

Saturday, September 19

Sunrise7:29 am
Sunset7:44 pm

6:49 pm the sun is 10 degrees up in the west

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LIBERAL 37.04 N 100.92 W DAY 12 H 16 MIN UTC-5

Today, hour by hour

First light
6:01 am astronomical dawn
Nautical dawn
6:32 am horizon becomes visible
Dawn
7:03 am civil twilight begins
Sunrise
7:29 am
Golden hour
7:13 am to 8:03 am morning
Solar noon
1:37 pm sun 54 degrees up
Golden hour
7:10 pm to 8:00 pm evening
Sunset
7:44 pm
Dusk
8:10 pm civil twilight ends
Nautical dusk
8:41 pm
Last light
9:12 pm astronomical dusk, full dark
Day length
12 h 16 min −2 min 21 s vs yesterday

The next thirty days

DaySunriseSunsetDay lengthChange
Today7:29 am7:44 pm12 h 16 min−2 min 21 s
Tomorrow7:30 am7:43 pm12 h 13 min−2 min 21 s
Mon, Sep 217:30 am7:41 pm12 h 11 min−2 min 21 s
Tue, Sep 227:31 am7:40 pm12 h 09 min−2 min 21 s
Wed, Sep 237:32 am7:38 pm12 h 06 min−2 min 21 s
Thu, Sep 247:33 am7:37 pm12 h 04 min−2 min 21 s
Fri, Sep 257:34 am7:35 pm12 h 02 min−2 min 21 s
Sat, Sep 267:34 am7:34 pm11 h 59 min−2 min 21 s
Sun, Sep 277:35 am7:32 pm11 h 57 min−2 min 21 s
Mon, Sep 287:36 am7:31 pm11 h 55 min−2 min 21 s
Tue, Sep 297:37 am7:29 pm11 h 52 min−2 min 21 s
Wed, Sep 307:38 am7:28 pm11 h 50 min−2 min 21 s
Thu, Oct 17:39 am7:26 pm11 h 48 min−2 min 21 s
Fri, Oct 27:40 am7:25 pm11 h 45 min−2 min 20 s
Sat, Oct 37:40 am7:23 pm11 h 43 min−2 min 20 s
Sun, Oct 47:41 am7:22 pm11 h 41 min−2 min 20 s
Mon, Oct 57:42 am7:20 pm11 h 38 min−2 min 20 s
Tue, Oct 67:43 am7:19 pm11 h 36 min−2 min 20 s
Wed, Oct 77:44 am7:17 pm11 h 34 min−2 min 19 s
Thu, Oct 87:45 am7:16 pm11 h 31 min−2 min 19 s
Fri, Oct 97:46 am7:15 pm11 h 29 min−2 min 19 s
Sat, Oct 107:47 am7:13 pm11 h 27 min−2 min 19 s
Sun, Oct 117:47 am7:12 pm11 h 24 min−2 min 18 s
Mon, Oct 127:48 am7:10 pm11 h 22 min−2 min 18 s
Tue, Oct 137:49 am7:09 pm11 h 20 min−2 min 18 s
Wed, Oct 147:50 am7:08 pm11 h 17 min−2 min 17 s
Thu, Oct 157:51 am7:06 pm11 h 15 min−2 min 17 s
Fri, Oct 167:52 am7:05 pm11 h 13 min−2 min 16 s
Sat, Oct 177:53 am7:04 pm11 h 11 min−2 min 16 s
Sun, Oct 187:54 am7:02 pm11 h 08 min−2 min 15 s

Reading the sky band

The band is one day in Liberal, 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 Liberal 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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