Your location
The calculator uses 42.3601°, -71.0589° and America/New_York. Coordinates represent the city center and also serve Cambridge, Somerville, Brookline, Quincy and Newton. 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 Boston and the date to the monthly calendar, where you can print the table or download it as CSV. For the whole of Boston’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 Boston all move the moment the Sun actually appears or disappears relative to the flat-horizon times shown here.
What makes Boston’s daylight different
Boston sits at 42.4° N, so its northern-hemisphere seasons give it a longest day of 15h 17m on 21 June and a shortest day of 9h 05m on 21 December in 2026. The earliest sunrise (05:07 AM on 12 June) and the latest sunset (08:25 PM on 23 June) do not fall on the solstice itself, because solar noon drifts against the clock through the year.
Sunrise and sunset in Boston 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 Boston’s latitude. Times are local clock times for the city center.
| Reference date | Date | Sunrise | Sunset | Daylight |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox period | 2026-03-20 | 06:47 AM | 06:57 PM | 12h 09m |
| June solstice period | 2026-06-21 | 05:08 AM | 08:25 PM | 15h 17m |
| September equinox period | 2026-09-22 | 06:32 AM | 06:41 PM | 12h 10m |
| December solstice period | 2026-12-21 | 07:10 AM | 04:15 PM | 9h 05m |
Clock changes in Boston
Boston observes daylight saving time in 2026: the clock changes on 8 March 2026 (clocks go forward one hour) and 1 November 2026 (clocks go back one hour). In Boston 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 EST and summer times EDT.
Sunrise and sunset in Boston today and tomorrow
The page opens on today’s date in America/New_York. Press Tomorrow to move one day ahead, or type any date between 2000 and 2099. Twilight boundaries for Boston 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 New York, NY (about 310 km away)
- Sunrise and sunset in Newark, NJ (about 320 km away)
- Sunrise and sunset in Philadelphia, PA (about 440 km away)
All 27 locations are listed on the sunrise and sunset times by city page.