Sunrise and sunset in Qamdo

The sun comes up at 7:50 am and goes down at 6:38 pm in Qamdo today, 10 h 49 min of daylight. Drag the sun across the sky to see where it will be at any minute. Another city.

Qamdo, Tibet, China

Friday, November 6

Sunrise7:50 am
Sunset6:38 pm

11:21 pm the sun is night, 60 degrees below the horizon

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QAMDO 31.13 N 97.18 E DAY 10 H 49 MIN UTC+8

Today, hour by hour

First light
6:27 am astronomical dawn
Nautical dawn
6:56 am horizon becomes visible
Dawn
7:25 am civil twilight begins
Sunrise
7:50 am
Golden hour
7:34 am to 8:24 am morning
Solar noon
1:14 pm sun 43 degrees up
Golden hour
6:04 pm to 6:54 pm evening
Sunset
6:38 pm
Dusk
7:04 pm civil twilight ends
Nautical dusk
7:32 pm
Last light
8:01 pm astronomical dusk, full dark
Day length
10 h 49 min −1 min 34 s vs yesterday

The next thirty days

DaySunriseSunsetDay lengthChange
Today7:50 am6:38 pm10 h 49 min−1 min 34 s
Tomorrow7:51 am6:38 pm10 h 47 min−1 min 33 s
Sun, Nov 87:52 am6:37 pm10 h 45 min−1 min 32 s
Mon, Nov 97:52 am6:36 pm10 h 44 min−1 min 31 s
Tue, Nov 107:53 am6:36 pm10 h 42 min−1 min 30 s
Wed, Nov 117:54 am6:35 pm10 h 41 min−1 min 29 s
Thu, Nov 127:55 am6:34 pm10 h 39 min−1 min 27 s
Fri, Nov 137:56 am6:34 pm10 h 38 min−1 min 26 s
Sat, Nov 147:57 am6:33 pm10 h 37 min−1 min 25 s
Sun, Nov 157:58 am6:33 pm10 h 35 min−1 min 23 s
Mon, Nov 167:58 am6:32 pm10 h 34 min−1 min 22 s
Tue, Nov 177:59 am6:32 pm10 h 33 min−1 min 20 s
Wed, Nov 188:00 am6:31 pm10 h 31 min−1 min 19 s
Thu, Nov 198:01 am6:31 pm10 h 30 min−1 min 17 s
Fri, Nov 208:02 am6:31 pm10 h 29 min−1 min 15 s
Sat, Nov 218:03 am6:30 pm10 h 27 min−1 min 14 s
Sun, Nov 228:04 am6:30 pm10 h 26 min−1 min 12 s
Mon, Nov 238:04 am6:30 pm10 h 25 min−1 min 10 s
Tue, Nov 248:05 am6:29 pm10 h 24 min−1 min 08 s
Wed, Nov 258:06 am6:29 pm10 h 23 min−1 min 06 s
Thu, Nov 268:07 am6:29 pm10 h 22 min−1 min 04 s
Fri, Nov 278:08 am6:29 pm10 h 21 min−1 min 02 s
Sat, Nov 288:09 am6:28 pm10 h 20 min−1 min 00 s
Sun, Nov 298:09 am6:28 pm10 h 19 min−58 s
Mon, Nov 308:10 am6:28 pm10 h 18 min−56 s
Tue, Dec 18:11 am6:28 pm10 h 17 min−54 s
Wed, Dec 28:12 am6:28 pm10 h 16 min−52 s
Thu, Dec 38:13 am6:28 pm10 h 15 min−49 s
Fri, Dec 48:14 am6:28 pm10 h 14 min−47 s
Sat, Dec 58:14 am6:28 pm10 h 14 min−45 s

Reading the sky band

The band is one day in Qamdo, 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 Qamdo 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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