Day and Night World Map – Live Where It Is Day or Night

Live world map of day and night from NASA satellite images: the day/night line, twilight zones, city lights and where the sun is rising and setting now.

What is happening on Earth right now

As of 03:45 UTC. The sun is overhead at 5.1° S, 120.7° E right now, the moon at 16.9° N, 68.4° E.
Sunrise right now in: Moscow (06:45), Johannesburg (05:45)
Noon right now in: Manila (11:45), Shanghai (11:45), Taipei (11:45), Beijing (11:45), Perth (11:45), Seoul (12:45), Hong Kong (11:45), Shenzhen (11:45)
Sunset right now in: In none of the big cities on this page right now.

Day or night? World cities now

Auckland: Day · 16:45
Sydney: Day · 14:45
Melbourne: Day · 14:45
Sapporo: Day · 12:45
Tokyo: Day · 12:45
Kyoto: Day · 12:45
Osaka: Day · 12:45
Seoul: Day · 12:45
Taipei: Day · 11:45
Shanghai: Day · 11:45
Manila: Day · 11:45
Beijing: Day · 11:45
Perth: Day · 11:45
Hong Kong: Day · 11:45
Shenzhen: Day · 11:45
Guangzhou: Day · 11:45
Jakarta: Day · 10:45
Chengdu: Day · 11:45
Singapore: Day · 11:45
Bangkok: Day · 10:45
Dhaka: Day · 09:45
Kathmandu: Day · 09:30
Delhi: Day · 09:15
Mumbai: Day · 09:15
Karachi: Day · 08:45
Dubai: Day · 07:45
Tehran: Day · 07:15
Moscow: Day · 06:45
Nairobi: Day · 06:45
Cairo: Twilight · 06:45
Istanbul: Twilight · 06:45
Johannesburg: Day · 05:45
Helsinki: Nautical twilight · 06:45
Athens: Nautical twilight · 06:45
Warsaw: Nautical twilight · 05:45
Krakow: Nautical twilight · 05:45
Gdansk: Nautical twilight · 05:45
Cape Town: Nautical twilight · 05:45
Stockholm: Nautical twilight · 05:45
Wroclaw: Astronomical twilight · 05:45
Vienna: Astronomical twilight · 05:45
Naples: Astronomical twilight · 05:45
Berlin: Astronomical twilight · 05:45
Rome: Astronomical twilight · 05:45
Munich: Astronomical twilight · 05:45
Florence: Astronomical twilight · 05:45
Oslo: Astronomical twilight · 05:45
Hamburg: Astronomical twilight · 05:45
Milan: Night · 05:45
Zurich: Night · 05:45
Cologne: Night · 05:45
Marseille: Night · 05:45
Amsterdam: Night · 05:45
Lyon: Night · 05:45
Rotterdam: Night · 05:45
Brussels: Night · 05:45
Lagos: Night · 04:45
Paris: Night · 05:45
Barcelona: Night · 05:45
London: Night · 04:45
Valencia: Night · 05:45
Madrid: Night · 05:45
Seville: Night · 05:45
Dublin: Night · 04:45
Casablanca: Night · 03:45
Porto: Night · 04:45
Lisbon: Night · 04:45
Reykjavik: Night · 03:45
Rio de Janeiro: Night · 00:45
São Paulo: Night · 00:45
Buenos Aires: Night · 00:45
Santiago: Night · 00:45
Montreal: Night · 23:45
New York: Night · 23:45
Bogota: Night · 22:45
Lima: Night · 22:45
Toronto: Night · 23:45
Miami: Night · 23:45
Havana: Night · 23:45
Chicago: Night · 22:45
Mexico City: Night · 21:45
Denver: Night · 21:45
Los Angeles: Night · 20:45
San Francisco: Night · 20:45
Vancouver: Night · 20:45
Anchorage: Twilight · 19:45
Honolulu: Day · 17:45

Questions about day and night

Where is it day and where is it night right now? Right now the sun is overhead at 5.1° S, 120.7° E. It is day on the half of the Earth around that point – at the moment for example in Jakarta, Singapore, Manila, Perth. It is night in Bogota, Lima, Havana, Miami, among others.
Why is the day/night line curved? Because the Earth's axis is tilted by 23.4°. Only at the equinoxes in March and September does the line run almost straight from pole to pole on this map. At the solstices it curves most: one polar cap lies entirely in the light, the other entirely in the dark.
What do the twilight zones mean? After sunset it gets dark in stages: civil twilight lasts until the sun is 6° below the horizon (you can still read outdoors), nautical twilight until 12° (the horizon is still visible at sea), astronomical twilight until 18°. Only then is the sky fully dark.
Why is more than half of the Earth in daylight? The atmosphere bends the light and lifts the sun by about half a degree at the horizon, and the sun is not a point. So the day side is always a little larger than the night side – plus the twilight zones.
Where do the images come from? The day side shows NASA's “Blue Marble” mosaic of cloud-free satellite images, the night side the “Black Marble” image of city lights from 2016. So the clouds are not today's – only the positions of the sun and moon are calculated, to the minute.