Sunrise & sunset times in Auckland

Sun and moon in Auckland

From early risers to golden hour photographers, the daily sun and moon schedule for Auckland is easy to check here. This page shows live sunrise, sunset, solar noon, day length, morning and evening golden hour, blue hour, dawn and dusk, plus the current moon phase and the moonrise and moonset times for Auckland. Every value is calculated in the browser for the date you pick and shown in the local time of Auckland, New Zealand. Auckland sits at roughly 36.85 degrees south, in the southern hemisphere, so it sees a clear but moderate seasonal swing, with noticeably longer days in summer and cosier, earlier sunsets in winter. Because the length of the day changes with the seasons, the exact sunrise and sunset in Auckland shift from week to week. Pick any date with the date picker to see how the light will fall on a specific day, which is handy for planning a shoot, an event, a wedding, a flight or simply the best moment to catch the last warm light of the evening. Golden hour, that soft warm window near sunrise and sunset, is the favourite of photographers in Auckland. Blue hour, the cooler stretch just before sunrise and just after sunset, is ideal for cityscapes and long exposures. Combined with the moon phase and moon times, this gives you a complete picture of natural light over Auckland, New Zealand for any day of the year.

What time is sunset in Auckland today?

The sun sets in Auckland at 19:25 today, Friday, 2 October 2026, in Auckland's own local time. The warm light starts well before that: evening golden hour opens at 18:51, giving 34 minutes of low golden light before the sun reaches the horizon. Sunset is not the end of the light either. Last light, the moment usable daylight ends at civil dusk, follows 26 minutes later at 19:51, and the sky is properly dark at 20:53, 1h 28m after sunset.

Tomorrow the sun sets at 19:25 (just after midnight) in Auckland. That is 51 seconds later than today. Over the coming week sunset moves 6 minutes 3 seconds later.

Planning around the light? See golden hour in Auckland.

Is the day getting longer or shorter in Auckland right now?

Auckland gets 12h 27m of daylight today, from sunrise to sunset. Tomorrow will be 2 minutes 20 seconds longer. Over the next seven days Auckland gains 16 minutes 21 seconds of daylight.

That pace is not constant. In Auckland the day length changes fastest around April, near the equinox, when it moves by about 4 minutes 37 seconds per day, and it slows almost to a stop at the solstices in June and December. The word solstice means exactly that: the sun standing still.

When are the earliest and latest sunrise and sunset in Auckland?

The earliest sunset of 2026 in Auckland falls on 27 September at 18:20, 85 days before the December solstice, and the latest on 26 September at 18:20.

Sunrise runs on its own schedule: earliest on 8 December at 05:54, latest on 29 June at 07:34, 8 days after the June solstice. One of these dates is pinned by the clocks rather than by the sky: a daylight saving change in Auckland moves sunrise and sunset by a whole hour overnight, so the earliest and latest times on the clock land on either side of it. The rest is astronomy. Earth's orbit is slightly elliptical and its axis is tilted, so the sun runs a few minutes fast or slow against clock time through the year. That offset, the equation of time, is what pushes the earliest sunset ahead of the shortest day and the latest sunrise behind it.

These are wall-clock times, so Auckland's daylight saving change is part of the picture: an hour moved by the clocks counts the same as an hour moved by the Earth.

For the longest and shortest day themselves, see day length in Auckland.

How long does twilight last in Auckland?

First light in Auckland arrives 26 minutes before sunrise today, at 06:30. After sunset the light hangs on for another 26 minutes, until 19:51. That evening stretch is not the same all year in Auckland: it runs from 26 minutes at its shortest, in March, to 31 minutes at its longest, in December. The lower the angle at which the sun crosses the horizon, the longer twilight lasts, which is why dusk is a slow affair at high latitudes and abrupt near the equator.

Full three-band twilight tables: dawn in Auckland and dusk in Auckland.

How high does the sun get in Auckland?

At midday on the December solstice the sun stands 76.6 degrees above the horizon in Auckland. On the June solstice it climbs only 29.7 degrees. A midday sun that low throws a shadow about 1.8 times the height of whatever casts it, so even at noon in midwinter the shadows in Auckland are long ones.

Frequently asked questions about Auckland

Data and methodology: every time on this page is computed from Auckland's coordinates with SunCalc, an open source astronomy library, not estimated or looked up from a table. Coordinates -36.85, 174.76, time zone Pacific/Auckland. Accurate to about a minute for a flat, unobstructed horizon; terrain, tall buildings and atmospheric conditions can shift the moment the sun is actually visible by a few minutes. Full method on methodology.

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