Sunrise & sunset times in Krakow

Sun and moon in Krakow

Whether you are planning a sunrise photo walk or timing an evening run, the daily sun and moon schedule for Krakow 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 Krakow. Every value is calculated in the browser for the date you pick and shown in the local time of Krakow, Poland. Krakow sits at roughly 50.06 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 Krakow 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 Krakow. 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 Krakow, Poland for any day of the year.

What time is sunset in Krakow today?

The sun sets in Krakow at 18:16 today, Friday, 2 October 2026, in Krakow's own local time. The warm light starts well before that: evening golden hour opens at 17:33, giving 43 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 32 minutes later at 18:48, and the sky is properly dark at 20:04, 1h 48m after sunset.

Tomorrow the sun sets at 18:14 in Krakow. That is 2 minutes 10 seconds earlier than today. Over the coming week sunset moves 15 minutes earlier.

Planning around the light? See golden hour in Krakow.

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

Krakow gets 11h 35m of daylight today, from sunrise to sunset. Tomorrow will be 3 minutes 43 seconds shorter. Over the next seven days Krakow loses 25 minutes 53 seconds of daylight.

That pace is not constant. In Krakow the day length changes fastest around March, near the equinox, when it moves by about 3 minutes 47 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 Krakow?

The earliest sunset of 2026 in Krakow falls on 12 December at 15:37, 9 days before the December solstice, and the latest on 25 June at 20:53.

Sunrise runs on its own schedule: earliest on 17 June at 04:30, latest on 31 December at 07:39, 10 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 Krakow'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 Krakow.

How long does twilight last in Krakow?

First light in Krakow arrives 32 minutes before sunrise today, at 06:09. After sunset the light hangs on for another 32 minutes, until 18:48. That evening stretch is not the same all year in Krakow: it runs from 32 minutes at its shortest, in September, to 45 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 42 nights of 2026, the longest stretch running from 31 May to 11 July, the sky over Krakow 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 Krakow and dusk in Krakow.

How high does the sun get in Krakow?

At midday on the June solstice the sun stands 63.4 degrees above the horizon in Krakow. On the December solstice it climbs only 16.6 degrees. A midday sun that low throws a shadow about 3.4 times the height of whatever casts it, so even at noon in midwinter the shadows in Krakow are long ones.

Frequently asked questions about Krakow

Data and methodology: every time on this page is computed from Krakow's coordinates with SunCalc, an open source astronomy library, not estimated or looked up from a table. Coordinates 50.06, 19.95, time zone Europe/Warsaw. 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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