Sunrise & sunset times in Indianapolis

Sun and moon in Indianapolis

From early risers to golden hour photographers, the daily sun and moon schedule for Indianapolis 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 Indianapolis. Every value is calculated in the browser for the date you pick and shown in the local time of Indianapolis, United States. Indianapolis sits at roughly 39.77 degrees north, in the northern 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 Indianapolis 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 Indianapolis. 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 Indianapolis, United States for any day of the year.

What time is sunset in Indianapolis today?

The sun sets in Indianapolis at 19:25 (just after midnight) today, Thursday, 1 October 2026, in Indianapolis's own local time. The warm light starts well before that: evening golden hour opens at 18:49, giving 36 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 27 minutes later at 19:52, and the sky is properly dark at 20:54, 1h 30m after sunset.

Tomorrow the sun sets at 19:25 in Indianapolis. That is 1 minute 36 seconds earlier than today. Over the coming week sunset moves 11 minutes 6 seconds earlier.

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

Indianapolis gets 11h 46m of daylight today, from sunrise to sunset. Tomorrow will be 2 minutes 35 seconds shorter. Over the next seven days Indianapolis loses 18 minutes of daylight.

That pace is not constant. In Indianapolis the day length changes fastest around March, near the equinox, when it moves by about 2 minutes 38 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 Indianapolis?

The earliest sunset of 2026 in Indianapolis falls on 7 December at 17:19, 14 days before the December solstice, and the latest on 27 June at 21:16.

Sunrise runs on its own schedule: earliest on 14 June at 06:15, latest on 31 October at 08:12, the last morning before the clocks go back. One of these dates is pinned by the clocks rather than by the sky: a daylight saving change in Indianapolis 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 Indianapolis'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.

How long does twilight last in Indianapolis?

First light in Indianapolis arrives 27 minutes before sunrise today, at 07:15. After sunset the light hangs on for another 27 minutes, until 19:52. That evening stretch is not the same all year in Indianapolis: it runs from 27 minutes at its shortest, in September, to 33 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.

How high does the sun get in Indianapolis?

At midday on the June solstice the sun stands 73.7 degrees above the horizon in Indianapolis. On the December solstice it climbs only 26.8 degrees. A midday sun that low throws a shadow about 2.0 times the height of whatever casts it, so even at noon in midwinter the shadows in Indianapolis are long ones.

Frequently asked questions about Indianapolis

Data and methodology: every time on this page is computed from Indianapolis's coordinates with SunCalc, an open source astronomy library, not estimated or looked up from a table. Coordinates 39.77, -86.16, time zone America/Indiana/Indianapolis. 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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