Sunrise & sunset times in Blantyre

Sun and moon in Blantyre

For photographers, gardeners, runners and anyone chasing good light, the daily sun and moon schedule for Blantyre 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 Blantyre. Every value is calculated in the browser for the date you pick and shown in the local time of Blantyre, Malawi. Blantyre sits at roughly 15.78 degrees south, in the southern hemisphere, so it sees very little seasonal change, with day length staying close to twelve hours all year and a short, fast twilight after sunset. Because the length of the day changes with the seasons, the exact sunrise and sunset in Blantyre 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 Blantyre. 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 Blantyre, Malawi for any day of the year.

What time is sunset in Blantyre today?

The sun sets in Blantyre at 17:36 today, Friday, 2 October 2026, in Blantyre's own local time. The warm light starts well before that: evening golden hour opens at 17:08, giving 28 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 22 minutes later at 17:58, and the sky is properly dark at 18:48, 1h 12m after sunset.

Tomorrow the sun sets at 17:37 in Blantyre. To the minute, that is the same time as today. Over the coming week sunset moves 1 minute 1 second later.

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

Blantyre gets 12h 15m of daylight today, from sunrise to sunset. Tomorrow will be 53 seconds longer. Over the next seven days Blantyre gains 6 minutes 11 seconds of daylight.

That pace is not constant. In Blantyre the day length changes fastest around March, near the equinox, when it moves by about 54 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 Blantyre?

The earliest sunset of 2026 in Blantyre falls on 2 June at 17:15, 19 days before the June solstice, and the latest on 19 January at 18:18.

Sunrise runs on its own schedule: earliest on 23 November at 04:58, latest on 7 July at 06:08, 16 days after the June 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.

How long does twilight last in Blantyre?

First light in Blantyre arrives 22 minutes before sunrise today, at 05:00. After sunset the light hangs on for another 22 minutes, until 17:58. That evening stretch is not the same all year in Blantyre: it runs from 21 minutes at its shortest, in March, to 24 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.

How high does the sun get in Blantyre?

At midday on the December solstice the sun stands 82.4 degrees above the horizon in Blantyre. On the June solstice it climbs only 50.8 degrees. The midday sun stays high enough all year that noon shadows in Blantyre are always shorter than the object casting them, about 0.82 times their height at the lowest point of the year.

Twice a year, on 5 February and 5 November, the midday sun over Blantyre comes within half a degree of straight overhead, reaching 89.95 degrees at its highest. On those days an upright post casts almost no shadow at solar noon, which is why they are sometimes called zero shadow days. It can only happen between the tropics, where the sun passes directly over a place at all.

Frequently asked questions about Blantyre

Data and methodology: every time on this page is computed from Blantyre's coordinates with SunCalc, an open source astronomy library, not estimated or looked up from a table. Coordinates -15.78, 35.01, time zone Africa/Blantyre. 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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