Sunrise & sunset times in Khartoum

Sun and moon in Khartoum

From early risers to golden hour photographers, the daily sun and moon schedule for Khartoum 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 Khartoum. Every value is calculated in the browser for the date you pick and shown in the local time of Khartoum, Sudan. Khartoum sits at roughly 15.55 degrees north, in the northern 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 Khartoum 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 Khartoum. 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 Khartoum, Sudan for any day of the year.

What time is sunset in Khartoum today?

The sun sets in Khartoum at 17:38 today, Friday, 2 October 2026, in Khartoum's own local time. The warm light starts well before that: evening golden hour opens at 17:10, 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 21 minutes later at 17:59, and the sky is properly dark at 18:49, 1h 11m after sunset.

Tomorrow the sun sets at 17:37 in Khartoum. That is 45 seconds earlier than today. Over the coming week sunset moves 5 minutes 4 seconds earlier.

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

Khartoum gets 11h 59m of daylight today, from sunrise to sunset. Tomorrow will be 52 seconds shorter. Over the next seven days Khartoum loses 5 minutes 58 seconds of daylight.

That pace is not constant. In Khartoum the day length changes fastest around March, near the equinox, when it moves by about 53 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 Khartoum?

The earliest sunset of 2026 in Khartoum falls on 21 November at 17:16, 30 days before the December solstice, and the latest on 7 July at 18:25.

Sunrise runs on its own schedule: earliest on 2 June at 05:18, latest on 21 January at 06:20, 31 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.

How long does twilight last in Khartoum?

First light in Khartoum arrives 21 minutes before sunrise today, at 05:18. After sunset the light hangs on for another 21 minutes, until 17:59. That evening stretch is not the same all year in Khartoum: it runs from 21 minutes at its shortest, in September, to 24 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 Khartoum?

At midday on the June solstice the sun stands 82.1 degrees above the horizon in Khartoum. On the December solstice it climbs only 51.0 degrees. The midday sun stays high enough all year that noon shadows in Khartoum are always shorter than the object casting them, about 0.81 times their height at the lowest point of the year.

Twice a year, on 2 May and 10 August, the midday sun over Khartoum comes within half a degree of straight overhead, reaching 89.94 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 Khartoum

Data and methodology: every time on this page is computed from Khartoum's coordinates with SunCalc, an open source astronomy library, not estimated or looked up from a table. Coordinates 15.55, 32.53, time zone Africa/Khartoum. 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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