Every day in one table
Choose a place and any date in the year you want. The table lists all 365 or 366 days with sunrise, sunset and daylight in local time, and the summary above it picks out the longest day, the shortest day, the earliest sunrise and the latest sunset. Download the CSV or print the table for a wall chart.
Reading the chart
The chart plots sunrise and sunset clock times through the year. The step in both lines is the daylight saving change: the Sun does not jump, the clock does. The gap between the lines is the daylight; watch it widen towards midsummer and close towards midwinter. Above the polar circles the lines stop where there is no sunrise or sunset to plot.
Why the extremes do not line up
The longest day falls on the solstice, but the earliest sunrise comes about a week before it and the latest sunset about a week after, and the reverse happens around the December solstice. Solar noon drifts by up to a quarter of an hour against clock time during the year, an effect called the equation of time, and the drift shifts sunrise and sunset in the same direction while the day length itself stays symmetric. The methodology page describes the calculation.
Sunrise and sunset chart versus calendar
Use this page for the shape of the year and the yearly extremes. Use the monthly calendar when you need one month at a time, a rolling next-30-days view, or a smaller print-out. Both pages use the same engine, coordinates and rounding, so their numbers always agree.
Cities with their own year
Every city page shows the same yearly extremes for its own coordinates, calculated in advance: for example Denver, London and Sydney, where the long days come in December. The city directory lists them all.