Sunrise & sunset times in Birmingham

Sun and moon in Birmingham

Whether you are planning a sunrise photo walk or timing an evening run, the daily sun and moon schedule for Birmingham 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 Birmingham. Every value is calculated in the browser for the date you pick and shown in the local time of Birmingham, United Kingdom. Birmingham sits at roughly 52.49 degrees north, in the northern hemisphere, so it sees a wide seasonal swing between long summer days and short winter afternoons, so sunrise and sunset move dramatically across the year. Because the length of the day changes with the seasons, the exact sunrise and sunset in Birmingham 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 Birmingham. 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 Birmingham, United Kingdom for any day of the year.

What time is sunset in Birmingham today?

The sun sets in Birmingham at 18:42 today, Friday, 2 October 2026, in Birmingham's own local time. The warm light starts well before that: evening golden hour opens at 17:57, giving 46 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 34 minutes later at 19:16, and the sky is properly dark at 20:36, 1h 54m after sunset.

Tomorrow the sun sets at 18:40 in Birmingham. That is 2 minutes 20 seconds earlier than today. Over the coming week sunset moves 16 minutes 11 seconds earlier.

Planning around the light? See golden hour in Birmingham.

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

Birmingham gets 11h 32m of daylight today, from sunrise to sunset. Tomorrow will be 4 minutes 3 seconds shorter. Over the next seven days Birmingham loses 28 minutes 15 seconds of daylight.

That pace is not constant. In Birmingham the day length changes fastest around March, near the equinox, when it moves by about 4 minutes 7 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 Birmingham?

The earliest sunset of 2026 in Birmingham falls on 13 December at 15:53, 8 days before the December solstice, and the latest on 24 June at 21:34.

Sunrise runs on its own schedule: earliest on 17 June at 04:44, latest on 30 December at 08:18, 9 days after the December solstice. The four dates in the table below do not line up with the solstices, and they are not supposed to. 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 Birmingham'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 Birmingham.

How long does twilight last in Birmingham?

First light in Birmingham arrives 34 minutes before sunrise today, at 06:36. After sunset the light hangs on for another 34 minutes, until 19:16. That evening stretch is not the same all year in Birmingham: it runs from 34 minutes at its shortest, in September, to 50 minutes at its longest, in June. 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.

For 69 nights of 2026, the longest stretch running from 18 May to 25 July, the sky over Birmingham never gets fully dark. The sun stays within 18 degrees of the horizon all night, so astronomical twilight lasts straight through to dawn and the faintest stars never come out.

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

How high does the sun get in Birmingham?

At midday on the June solstice the sun stands 61.0 degrees above the horizon in Birmingham. On the December solstice it climbs only 14.1 degrees. A midday sun that low throws a shadow about 4.0 times the height of whatever casts it, so even at noon in midwinter the shadows in Birmingham are long ones.

Frequently asked questions about Birmingham

Data and methodology: every time on this page is computed from Birmingham's coordinates with SunCalc, an open source astronomy library, not estimated or looked up from a table. Coordinates 52.49, -1.89, time zone Europe/London. 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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