Sunrise and sunset in Saintes

The sun comes up at 7:46 am and goes down at 8:04 pm in Saintes today, 12 h 17 min of daylight. Drag the sun across the sky to see where it will be at any minute. Another city.

Saintes, New Aquitaine, France

Sunday, September 20

Sunrise7:46 am
Sunset8:04 pm

1:30 pm the sun is 45 degrees up in the south

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SAINTES 45.75 N 0.63 W DAY 12 H 17 MIN UTC+2

Today, hour by hour

First light
6:05 am astronomical dawn
Nautical dawn
6:42 am horizon becomes visible
Dawn
7:17 am civil twilight begins
Sunrise
7:46 am
Golden hour
7:28 am to 8:26 am morning
Solar noon
1:55 pm sun 45 degrees up
Golden hour
7:25 pm to 8:22 pm evening
Sunset
8:04 pm
Dusk
8:33 pm civil twilight ends
Nautical dusk
9:08 pm
Last light
9:44 pm astronomical dusk, full dark
Day length
12 h 17 min −3 min 11 s vs yesterday

The next thirty days

DaySunriseSunsetDay lengthChange
Today7:46 am8:04 pm12 h 17 min−3 min 11 s
Tomorrow7:48 am8:02 pm12 h 14 min−3 min 12 s
Tue, Sep 227:49 am8:00 pm12 h 11 min−3 min 12 s
Wed, Sep 237:50 am7:58 pm12 h 08 min−3 min 12 s
Thu, Sep 247:51 am7:56 pm12 h 05 min−3 min 12 s
Fri, Sep 257:53 am7:54 pm12 h 01 min−3 min 12 s
Sat, Sep 267:54 am7:52 pm11 h 58 min−3 min 12 s
Sun, Sep 277:55 am7:50 pm11 h 55 min−3 min 12 s
Mon, Sep 287:56 am7:48 pm11 h 52 min−3 min 12 s
Tue, Sep 297:58 am7:46 pm11 h 49 min−3 min 12 s
Wed, Sep 307:59 am7:44 pm11 h 45 min−3 min 11 s
Thu, Oct 18:00 am7:42 pm11 h 42 min−3 min 11 s
Fri, Oct 28:01 am7:41 pm11 h 39 min−3 min 11 s
Sat, Oct 38:03 am7:39 pm11 h 36 min−3 min 11 s
Sun, Oct 48:04 am7:37 pm11 h 33 min−3 min 11 s
Mon, Oct 58:05 am7:35 pm11 h 30 min−3 min 11 s
Tue, Oct 68:07 am7:33 pm11 h 26 min−3 min 10 s
Wed, Oct 78:08 am7:31 pm11 h 23 min−3 min 10 s
Thu, Oct 88:09 am7:29 pm11 h 20 min−3 min 10 s
Fri, Oct 98:10 am7:27 pm11 h 17 min−3 min 10 s
Sat, Oct 108:12 am7:26 pm11 h 14 min−3 min 09 s
Sun, Oct 118:13 am7:24 pm11 h 11 min−3 min 09 s
Mon, Oct 128:14 am7:22 pm11 h 07 min−3 min 09 s
Tue, Oct 138:16 am7:20 pm11 h 04 min−3 min 08 s
Wed, Oct 148:17 am7:18 pm11 h 01 min−3 min 08 s
Thu, Oct 158:18 am7:16 pm10 h 58 min−3 min 07 s
Fri, Oct 168:20 am7:15 pm10 h 55 min−3 min 07 s
Sat, Oct 178:21 am7:13 pm10 h 52 min−3 min 06 s
Sun, Oct 188:22 am7:11 pm10 h 49 min−3 min 06 s
Mon, Oct 198:24 am7:09 pm10 h 46 min−3 min 05 s

Reading the sky band

The band is one day in Saintes, 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 Saintes 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.

Near Saintes

What stays here

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