Sunrise and sunset in Tórshavn

The sun comes up at 8:09 am and goes down at 4:10 pm in Tórshavn today, 8 h 01 min of daylight. Drag the sun across the sky to see where it will be at any minute. Another city.

Tórshavn, Streymoy, Faroe Islands

Thursday, November 5

Sunrise8:09 am
Sunset4:10 pm

1:53 pm the sun is 10 degrees up in the south-southwest

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TÓRSHAVN 62.01 N 6.77 W DAY 8 H 01 MIN UTC+0

Today, hour by hour

First light
5:34 am astronomical dawn
Nautical dawn
6:26 am horizon becomes visible
Dawn
7:19 am civil twilight begins
Sunrise
8:09 am
Golden hour
7:38 am to 9:28 am morning
Solar noon
12:10 pm sun 12 degrees up
Golden hour
2:51 pm to 4:41 pm evening
Sunset
4:10 pm
Dusk
5:00 pm civil twilight ends
Nautical dusk
5:53 pm
Last light
6:45 pm astronomical dusk, full dark
Day length
8 h 01 min −5 min 39 s vs yesterday

The next thirty days

DaySunriseSunsetDay lengthChange
Today8:09 am4:10 pm8 h 01 min−5 min 39 s
Tomorrow8:12 am4:07 pm7 h 55 min−5 min 38 s
Sat, Nov 78:15 am4:04 pm7 h 49 min−5 min 36 s
Sun, Nov 88:18 am4:02 pm7 h 44 min−5 min 35 s
Mon, Nov 98:21 am3:59 pm7 h 38 min−5 min 33 s
Tue, Nov 108:24 am3:56 pm7 h 33 min−5 min 31 s
Wed, Nov 118:27 am3:54 pm7 h 27 min−5 min 28 s
Thu, Nov 128:29 am3:51 pm7 h 22 min−5 min 26 s
Fri, Nov 138:32 am3:49 pm7 h 16 min−5 min 24 s
Sat, Nov 148:35 am3:46 pm7 h 11 min−5 min 21 s
Sun, Nov 158:38 am3:44 pm7 h 06 min−5 min 18 s
Mon, Nov 168:41 am3:41 pm7 h 00 min−5 min 15 s
Tue, Nov 178:44 am3:39 pm6 h 55 min−5 min 11 s
Wed, Nov 188:46 am3:36 pm6 h 50 min−5 min 08 s
Thu, Nov 198:49 am3:34 pm6 h 45 min−5 min 04 s
Fri, Nov 208:52 am3:32 pm6 h 40 min−5 min 00 s
Sat, Nov 218:55 am3:30 pm6 h 35 min−4 min 55 s
Sun, Nov 228:57 am3:28 pm6 h 30 min−4 min 51 s
Mon, Nov 239:00 am3:25 pm6 h 26 min−4 min 46 s
Tue, Nov 249:03 am3:23 pm6 h 21 min−4 min 40 s
Wed, Nov 259:05 am3:21 pm6 h 16 min−4 min 35 s
Thu, Nov 269:08 am3:19 pm6 h 12 min−4 min 29 s
Fri, Nov 279:10 am3:18 pm6 h 07 min−4 min 23 s
Sat, Nov 289:13 am3:16 pm6 h 03 min−4 min 16 s
Sun, Nov 299:15 am3:14 pm5 h 59 min−4 min 09 s
Mon, Nov 309:18 am3:12 pm5 h 55 min−4 min 02 s
Tue, Dec 19:20 am3:11 pm5 h 51 min−3 min 55 s
Wed, Dec 29:22 am3:09 pm5 h 47 min−3 min 47 s
Thu, Dec 39:24 am3:08 pm5 h 44 min−3 min 38 s
Fri, Dec 49:27 am3:07 pm5 h 40 min−3 min 29 s

Reading the sky band

The band is one day in Tórshavn, 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 Tórshavn 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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