Your location
The calculator uses -36.8485°, 174.7633° and Pacific/Auckland. Coordinates represent the city center and also serve the North Shore, Manukau, Waitākere and the wider region. The selected date belongs to this time zone.
Plan the month or the year
After you calculate a day, the Open monthly calendar link carries Auckland and the date to the monthly calendar, where you can print the table or download it as CSV. For the whole of Auckland’s year at a glance, including its longest and shortest day, use the annual sunrise and sunset table.
Check the context
The visible horizon and weather affect what you see. Tall buildings, hills and a high floor around Auckland all move the moment the Sun actually appears or disappears relative to the flat-horizon times shown here.
What makes Auckland’s daylight different
Auckland sits at 36.8° S, so its southern-hemisphere seasons give it a longest day of 14h 42m on 22 December and a shortest day of 9h 38m on 21 June in 2026. The earliest sunrise (05:55 AM on 4 December) and the latest sunset (08:43 PM on 1 January) do not fall on the solstice itself, because solar noon drifts against the clock through the year. December brings the long days here and June the short ones, the reverse of Europe and North America.
Sunrise and sunset in Auckland through the year
The table below is calculated by the same engine for four reference dates this year, so you can see the seasonal range at Auckland’s latitude. Times are local clock times for the city center.
| Reference date | Date | Sunrise | Sunset | Daylight |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox period | 2026-03-20 | 07:23 AM | 07:33 PM | 12h 10m |
| June solstice period | 2026-06-21 | 07:34 AM | 05:12 PM | 9h 38m |
| September equinox period | 2026-09-22 | 06:11 AM | 06:17 PM | 12h 06m |
| December solstice period | 2026-12-21 | 05:58 AM | 08:40 PM | 14h 42m |
Clock changes in Auckland
Auckland observes daylight saving time in 2026: the clock changes on 5 April 2026 (clocks go back one hour) and 27 September 2026 (clocks go forward one hour). In Auckland the displayed sunrise and sunset jump by an hour on those dates while the daylight duration changes by only a minute or two. Winter times are GMT+13 and summer times GMT+12.
Sunrise and sunset in Auckland today and tomorrow
The page opens on today’s date in Pacific/Auckland. Press Tomorrow to move one day ahead, or type any date between 2000 and 2099. Twilight boundaries for Auckland are on the twilight page, photography windows on the golden hour page and the daylight comparison on the day length page.
Nearby places
The nearest places with their own page, by straight-line distance from the city center:
- Sunrise and sunset in Sydney, Australia (about 2,160 km away)
- Sunrise and sunset in Apia, Samoa (about 2,890 km away)
- Sunrise and sunset in Kiritimati, Kiribati (about 5,180 km away)
All 27 locations are listed on the sunrise and sunset times by city page.