When Does It Get Dark Today? Palm Desert & Any Location

Today in Palm Desert: dark at 17:15, fully dark at 18:14, sunset 16:49. For any place – with a 14-day table and the whole year.

Tonight in Palm Desert

Sunset is not darkness: after it come three twilights. Here is when it really gets dark – today and all year.
Sunset: 16:49
It gets dark (−6°): 17:15 – Street lights come on; reading outside without light is hardly possible.
Horizon disappears (−12°): 17:44 – Only bright stars and the outline of the landscape are left.
Fully dark (−18°): 18:14 – The faintest stars and the Milky Way appear.
And in the morning: First light (−18°) 04:44 · Horizon appears (−12°) 05:13 · It gets light (−6°) 05:43 · Sunrise 06:09

The change makes it get dark an hour later in Palm Desert overnight: at 18:16 on the day before, at 19:17 on the day of the change.

When does it get dark in Palm Desert today? The sun sets at 16:49. It is dark – too dark to read outside without light – from 17:15, and fully dark from 18:14.
What is the difference between sunset and darkness? After sunset come three stages of twilight: civil down to 6° below the horizon, nautical to 12°, astronomical to 18°. In Palm Desert it takes 26 minutes today from sunset until it is dark.
When does it get dark earliest in Palm Desert? It gets dark earliest around November 25, at 17:04, and latest around June 26, at 20:29.
Why does it get fully dark later in the north? The closer to the polar circle, the flatter the sun sinks below the horizon, so twilight lasts longer. Around the summer solstice the sun no longer gets 18° below the horizon north of about 48.5° – then it does not get fully dark at all.