Plain Almanac

Sunrise, sunset, first and last light, solar noon, day length and the moon for 291 cities, in 31 languages, worked out for each place and each day.

What Plain Almanac is #

A reference for the sun and the moon at one place. Each city page answers the everyday questions - when it gets light, when the sun rises and sets, how long the day is, when it gets dark, what the moon is doing - for today, the next seven days and every month of the year. The page recalculates in your browser for the day you open it, so its times do not go stale.

City pages where they are kept also carry two calendars computed for that city rather than for a distant capital: the Hindu calendar (panchang: tithi, nakshatra, festivals and monthly fasts) and the Hijri calendar with the day's five prayer times. The sun and moon figures can be downloaded as CSV, JSON, iCalendar or Markdown.

Who it is for #

Anyone planning around daylight: a run, a walk, a drive home, work outdoors, a photograph at first or last light.
People keeping a fast or a prayer time that follows the sun, who need it for their own city, not the nearest big one.
People moving to or visiting a city who want to know how short its winter days and how long its summer evenings are.
Readers who want the figure in their own language, with the place named the way they name it.

How the figures are made #

Sun times come from the NOAA solar equations and are good to about a minute below 65° latitude; the moon's phase is good to a few hours. Clock times follow the IANA time zone database, so summer time is applied on the right dates. Place names come from Wikidata; coordinates from GeoNames and a hand-checked list. Nothing is fetched or guessed when a page is built: every figure is computed, and a figure that cannot be computed or sourced is left out.

The sun's year, city by city #

These cities have a section on the extremes of their year - longest and shortest day, earliest and latest sunrise and sunset, the clock changes - and on what sets them apart from the other cities here.

Language #

All cities #

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Updated: 2026-10-18