Your location
The calculator uses 39.9526°, -75.1652° and America/New_York. Coordinates represent the city center and also serve Camden, Cherry Hill, the Main Line and Delaware County. 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 Philadelphia and the date to the monthly calendar, where you can print the table or download it as CSV. For the whole of Philadelphia’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 Philadelphia all move the moment the Sun actually appears or disappears relative to the flat-horizon times shown here.
What makes Philadelphia’s daylight different
Philadelphia sits at 40.0° N, so its northern-hemisphere seasons give it a longest day of 15h 01m on 21 June and a shortest day of 9h 20m on 21 December in 2026. The earliest sunrise (05:32 AM on 8 June) and the latest sunset (08:33 PM on 22 June) do not fall on the solstice itself, because solar noon drifts against the clock through the year.
Sunrise and sunset in Philadelphia 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 Philadelphia’s latitude. Times are local clock times for the city center.
| Reference date | Date | Sunrise | Sunset | Daylight |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox period | 2026-03-20 | 07:04 AM | 07:13 PM | 12h 09m |
| June solstice period | 2026-06-21 | 05:32 AM | 08:33 PM | 15h 01m |
| September equinox period | 2026-09-22 | 06:48 AM | 06:58 PM | 12h 09m |
| December solstice period | 2026-12-21 | 07:19 AM | 04:39 PM | 9h 20m |
Clock changes in Philadelphia
Philadelphia 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 Philadelphia 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 Philadelphia 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 Philadelphia 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 Newark, NJ (about 120 km away)
- Sunrise and sunset in New York, NY (about 130 km away)
- Sunrise and sunset in Boston, MA (about 440 km away)
- Sunrise and sunset in Detroit, MI (about 710 km away)
- Sunrise and sunset in Miami, FL (about 1,650 km away)
All 27 locations are listed on the sunrise and sunset times by city page.