Daylight today
Today the sun is up for 11 hours 5 minutes in Phoenix: 2 min less than yesterday, and 1 hour 9 minutes more than on December 21, 2025, the darkest day, which had 9 h 56 min. The days keep shrinking until December: the shortest day of the year.
What sets Phoenix apart
- The sun is highest at 12:28 PM on the longest day, 28 minutes after noon, because Phoenix sits far west in its time zone. Its evenings run late and its mornings start late.
- Its latest sunset of the year is only 7:43 PM on June 25, the 3rd earliest of the 51 cities' summer sunsets, because Arizona keeps standard time all year.
- Phoenix sits at about the latitude of Baghdad, so their shortest and longest days are close to the same length.
First light and last light
First light comes 25 minutes before sunrise today, at 6:15 AM, and last light 25 minutes after sunset, at 6:11 PM. Between them the sky is bright enough to see by: 11 hours 55 minutes, against 11 h 5 min with the sun up. First and last light are when the sun is 6° below the horizon; how DaySight calculates these times.
Clock changes
Arizona doesn't change its clocks, so Phoenix's sunrise and sunset move only with the seasons, a minute or two a day at most. The latest sunrise, 7:34 AM on January 4, 2027, and the earliest, 5:19 AM on June 6, are the real extremes, not clock jumps.
The year in Phoenix
Phoenix swings from 9 h 56 min of daylight on December 22 to 14 h 22 min on June 21. Its earliest sunset, though, is on December 1, and its latest sunrise on January 4, 2027: the shortest day sits between the two.
Phoenix's days run from 9 h 56 min to 14 h 22 min
Hours from sunrise to sunset on each day of 2026. Today is marked.
Source: DaySight, calculated from the sun's position over Phoenix.
Month by month
| Month | First light | Sunrise | Sunset | Last light | Sun up |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 7:06 AM | 7:33 AMfirst light 7:06 | 5:44 PMlast light 6:11 | 6:11 PM | 10 h 11 min |
| February | 6:48 AM | 7:13 AMfirst light 6:48 | 6:13 PMlast light 6:39 | 6:39 PM | 11 h |
| March | 6:15 AM | 6:40 AMfirst light 6:15 | 6:37 PMlast light 7:01 | 7:01 PM | 11 h 57 min |
| April | 5:33 AM | 5:59 AMfirst light 5:33 | 6:59 PMlast light 7:25 | 7:25 PM | 13 h 1 min |
| May | 5:01 AM | 5:29 AMfirst light 5:01 | 7:22 PMlast light 7:50 | 7:50 PM | 13 h 53 min |
| June | 4:50 AM | 5:19 AMfirst light 4:50 | 7:40 PMlast light 8:09 | 8:09 PM | 14 h 21 min |
| July | 5:02 AM | 5:30 AMfirst light 5:02 | 7:40 PMlast light 8:08 | 8:08 PM | 14 h 10 min |
| August | 5:25 AM | 5:52 AMfirst light 5:25 | 7:16 PMlast light 7:42 | 7:42 PM | 13 h 24 min |
| September | 5:48 AM | 6:13 AMfirst light 5:48 | 6:36 PMlast light 7:01 | 7:01 PM | 12 h 24 min |
| October | 6:08 AM | 6:33 AMfirst light 6:08 | 5:56 PMlast light 6:21 | 6:21 PM | 11 h 22 min |
| November | 6:34 AM | 7:01 AMfirst light 6:34 | 5:27 PMlast light 5:53 | 5:53 PM | 10 h 26 min |
| December | 6:58 AM | 7:26 AMfirst light 6:58 | 5:23 PMlast light 5:50 | 5:50 PM | 9 h 57 min |
Nearby
- Tucson, AZ: 106 miles away, sunset today 5:43 PM.
- Sunrise and sunset in Las Vegas: 256 miles away, sunset today 5:55 PM.
- San Diego, CA: 299 miles away, sunset today 6:07 PM.
- Sunrise and sunset in Albuquerque: 330 miles away, sunset today 6:22 PM.
All 51 cities: sunrise and sunset times by city.