Sunrise Today – What Time Does the Sun Rise in Your City?
Find out exactly when the sun rises today in your city. Live countdown, 7-day forecast, daylight trends, and golden hour times.
Why Do Sunrise Times Change?
The time the sun rises changes every day. The reason lies in Earth's axial tilt of 23.4° — the same effect that causes our seasons.
In summer, sunrise is significantly earlier than in winter. The exact difference depends on your latitude: the farther north (or south) you live, the more extreme the difference between summer and winter.
Axial Tilt
Earth's 23.4° tilt determines how high the sun climbs and when it rises and sets. In summer, the sun is higher and stays in the sky longer.
Latitude
At the equator, day length is nearly constant year-round (~12h). At high latitudes like Scandinavia, it varies from 6 to 20+ hours.
Time Zone & Position
At the western edge of a time zone, the sun rises later than at the eastern edge. The official time zone can deviate from solar time by up to 30 minutes.
Early mornings are worth it
The time just before and after sunrise offers the softest, warmest light of the day — ideal for photography and meditation.
Morning light for health
10–20 minutes of morning sunlight helps regulate your circadian rhythm, suppress melatonin, and produce Vitamin D.
Use the golden hour
The first hour after sunrise is the morning golden hour — perfect for landscape and portrait photography.
Note the sunrise direction
The sun doesn't always rise due east. In summer it shifts northeast, in winter southeast.
Clouds as an advantage
Light cloud cover can dramatically enhance a sunrise — clouds reflect and scatter the warm light across the entire sky.
The sky starts to brighten – the faintest stars fade.
First light: the blue hour – enough light to be outside without a lamp.
The upper edge of the sun appears above the horizon.
The sun climbs above 6° – the warm, soft light fades.
The earliest sunrise and the latest sunset do not fall on the longest day: the equation of time – the Earth's tilted axis and elliptical orbit – shifts them by days or weeks.
Why is the earliest sunrise not on the longest day? Because solar noon itself drifts through the year. The tilt of the Earth's axis and its elliptical orbit – together called the equation of time – move sunrise and sunset by up to about a quarter of an hour, so the extremes of the clock times fall days or weeks away from the solstices.