Your location
The calculator uses 29.7604°, -95.3698° and America/Chicago. Coordinates represent the city center and also serve Pasadena, Sugar Land, The Woodlands, Katy and Pearland. 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 Houston and the date to the monthly calendar, where you can print the table or download it as CSV. For the whole of Houston’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 Houston all move the moment the Sun actually appears or disappears relative to the flat-horizon times shown here.
What makes Houston’s daylight different
Houston sits at 29.8° N, so its northern-hemisphere seasons give it a longest day of 14h 04m on 21 June and a shortest day of 10h 14m on 21 December in 2026. The earliest sunrise (06:21 AM on 4 June) and the latest sunset (08:26 PM on 27 June) do not fall on the solstice itself, because solar noon drifts against the clock through the year.
Sunrise and sunset in Houston 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 Houston’s latitude. Times are local clock times for the city center.
| Reference date | Date | Sunrise | Sunset | Daylight |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox period | 2026-03-20 | 07:25 AM | 07:33 PM | 12h 08m |
| June solstice period | 2026-06-21 | 06:22 AM | 08:25 PM | 14h 04m |
| September equinox period | 2026-09-22 | 07:10 AM | 07:18 PM | 12h 08m |
| December solstice period | 2026-12-21 | 07:13 AM | 05:27 PM | 10h 14m |
Clock changes in Houston
Houston 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 Houston 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 CST and summer times CDT.
Sunrise and sunset in Houston today and tomorrow
The page opens on today’s date in America/Chicago. Press Tomorrow to move one day ahead, or type any date between 2000 and 2099. Twilight boundaries for Houston 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 Dallas, TX (about 360 km away)
- Sunrise and sunset in Atlanta, GA (about 1,130 km away)
- Sunrise and sunset in Denver, CO (about 1,410 km away)
- Sunrise and sunset in Miami, FL (about 1,560 km away)
All 27 locations are listed on the sunrise and sunset times by city page.