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title: "Sunrise & Sunset Times, Golden Hour | City on Foot"
description: "Sunrise, sunset, golden hour, civil twilight and day length for any city or coordinates and date, worked out on your device with NOAA's solar method."
url: https://cityonfoot.me/sunrise-sunset-times/
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[City on Foot](https://cityonfoot.me/) Sunrise & sunset

# Sunrise & sunset times

How much daylight will you have for walking? Pick a city or enter coordinates and a date for sunrise, sunset, golden hour and twilight in local time.

## How this is worked out

The times come from the NOAA solar position algorithm (the method behind the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's solar calculator, based on Jean Meeus's *Astronomical Algorithms*), run on your device. Sunrise and sunset are when the sun's centre is 0.833° below a flat, sea-level horizon, which allows for refraction and the sun's size. Civil twilight runs to 6° below; golden hour here is the sun between the horizon and 6° up. Hills, buildings and altitude can shift what you see by several minutes, so treat the times as estimates.

City times use your browser's built-in time zone rules, including summer time. Near the poles you will see midnight sun, polar night or white nights.

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## Questions

**How accurate are these times?**

The method is good to about a minute away from the poles; checked against the US Naval Observatory, these times agree to within a minute. Local hills, buildings and unusual weather matter more.

**What is golden hour?**

The soft, warm light just after sunrise and before sunset. Definitions vary; this page uses the time the sun is less than 6° above the horizon.

**Is my location used?**

No. The page never asks for your location; it only uses the city or coordinates you choose, and nothing is sent anywhere.