Your location
The calculator uses -33.8688°, 151.2093° and Australia/Sydney. Coordinates represent the city center and also serve Parramatta, Manly, Bondi and the wider Greater Sydney area. 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 Sydney and the date to the monthly calendar, where you can print the table or download it as CSV. For the whole of Sydney’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 Sydney all move the moment the Sun actually appears or disappears relative to the flat-horizon times shown here.
What makes Sydney’s daylight different
Sydney sits at 33.9° S, so its southern-hemisphere seasons give it a longest day of 14h 25m on 22 December and a shortest day of 9h 54m on 21 June in 2026. The earliest sunrise (05:30 AM on 3 October) and the latest sunset (08:09 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 Sydney 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 Sydney’s latitude. Times are local clock times for the city center.
| Reference date | Date | Sunrise | Sunset | Daylight |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox period | 2026-03-20 | 06:58 AM | 07:07 PM | 12h 09m |
| June solstice period | 2026-06-21 | 07:00 AM | 04:54 PM | 9h 54m |
| September equinox period | 2026-09-22 | 05:45 AM | 05:51 PM | 12h 06m |
| December solstice period | 2026-12-21 | 05:41 AM | 08:05 PM | 14h 25m |
Clock changes in Sydney
Sydney observes daylight saving time in 2026: the clock changes on 5 April 2026 (clocks go back one hour) and 4 October 2026 (clocks go forward one hour). In Sydney 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+11 and summer times GMT+10.
Sunrise and sunset in Sydney today and tomorrow
The page opens on today’s date in Australia/Sydney. Press Tomorrow to move one day ahead, or type any date between 2000 and 2099. Twilight boundaries for Sydney 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 Auckland, New Zealand (about 2,160 km away)
- Sunrise and sunset in Apia, Samoa (about 4,340 km away)
- Sunrise and sunset in Kiritimati, Kiribati (about 6,670 km away)
All 27 locations are listed on the sunrise and sunset times by city page.