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Start with a city search, then go deeper only when you need more context for your walk, shoot, commute, or prayer plan.
Search a city and land straight on today's sunrise, sunset, daylight length, and local date without digging through menus.
Explore dataSee morning and evening golden hour first, then layer in twilight and daylight trends only if you need the extra detail.
Plan your shootCheck how bright the moon is tonight, when it rises, and whether it helps or hurts the kind of outdoor plan you are making.
View moon dataSee the full prayer schedule for the city you searched, plus the next upcoming prayer, without leaving the same page.
Check timesSee whether the days are getting longer or shorter this week, which matters more than a generic dashboard when you are planning around light.
See trendsOpen the site, type a city, and move on. The fastest experience is the one that gets out of your way after the answer appears.
Search nowA better tool follows the way people plan a day: first light, best light, prayer windows, then nearby alternatives.
Lead with golden hour, twilight, and moon illumination so the best shooting window is visible before anything else.
Search a citySee sunrise, sunset, daylight length, and the next change in light at a glance so you can plan the day without reading a wall of content.
Browse popular citiesKeep prayer times present but secondary, so they are easy to reach when relevant without crowding the main sunrise and sunset answer.
See how it worksIf you do not want to type, use these fast routes to land directly on today's sunrise, sunset, golden hour, moon, and prayer details.
Open a high-demand city page directly for today and tomorrow sunrise, sunset, daylight, and golden hour details.
Everything you need to know about SunriseTime's accuracy, coverage, and data sources.
SunriseTime uses the NOAA Solar Calculator algorithm, the same standard used by the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Our sunrise and sunset predictions are accurate to within 1 minute for any location worldwide, accounting for latitude, longitude, altitude, and atmospheric refraction.
SunriseTime currently publishes timing pages for 500 indexed cities in the public directory. The focus is on major, high-demand cities that are useful for repeat daily planning, travel, photography, and prayer-time lookups.
Golden hour is the period shortly after sunrise and before sunset when the sun is low on the horizon, creating warm, soft, directional light. It's considered the best time for photography, filmmaking, and outdoor activities. SunriseTime calculates the exact golden hour window for your location, so you never miss that perfect light.
The current public SunriseTime experience calculates prayer times using the Muslim World League (MWL) convention, with the Standard (Shafi'i) method for Asr. This keeps the experience consistent across city pages while the broader methodology is documented transparently.
Yes. SunriseTime is designed to answer the main question quickly on smaller screens: what time is sunrise, what time is sunset, and what comes next. Search, city pages, and the key timing cards are all optimized to stay legible and tappable on mobile devices.
Absolutely. SunriseTime is free to use, no account required, and built around fast public access to sunrise, sunset, golden hour, moon phase, and prayer-time information. We plan to keep the core experience free by supporting it with unobtrusive advertising.
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