Sunrise & sunset times in Nizhniy Novgorod

Sun and moon in Nizhniy Novgorod

Landscape and street photographers who plan around the light rely on the daily sun and moon schedule for Nizhniy Novgorod, Russia. 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 Nizhniy Novgorod. Every value is calculated in the browser for the date you pick and shown in the local time of Nizhniy Novgorod, Russia. Nizhniy Novgorod sits at roughly 56.33 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 Nizhniy Novgorod 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 Nizhniy Novgorod. 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 Nizhniy Novgorod, Russia for any day of the year.

What time is sunset in Nizhniy Novgorod today?

The sun sets in Nizhniy Novgorod at 17:36 today, Friday, 2 October 2026, in Nizhniy Novgorod's own local time. The warm light starts well before that: evening golden hour opens at 16:46, giving 50 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 37 minutes later at 18:14, and the sky is properly dark at 19:42, 2h 6m after sunset.

Tomorrow the sun sets at 17:34 in Nizhniy Novgorod. That is 2 minutes 39 seconds earlier than today. Over the coming week sunset moves 18 minutes 22 seconds earlier.

Is the day getting longer or shorter in Nizhniy Novgorod right now?

Nizhniy Novgorod gets 11h 28m of daylight today, from sunrise to sunset. Tomorrow will be 4 minutes 40 seconds shorter. Over the next seven days Nizhniy Novgorod loses 32 minutes 37 seconds of daylight.

That pace is not constant. In Nizhniy Novgorod the day length changes fastest around March, near the equinox, when it moves by about 4 minutes 45 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 Nizhniy Novgorod?

The earliest sunset of 2026 in Nizhniy Novgorod falls on 14 December at 15:26, 7 days before the December solstice, and the latest on 24 June at 20:57.

Sunrise runs on its own schedule: earliest on 18 June at 03:14, latest on 28 December at 08:37, 7 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 Nizhniy Novgorod?

First light in Nizhniy Novgorod arrives 37 minutes before sunrise today, at 05:31. After sunset the light hangs on for another 37 minutes, until 18:14. That evening stretch is not the same all year in Nizhniy Novgorod: it runs from 37 minutes at its shortest, in September, to 1h 4m 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 99 nights of 2026, the longest stretch running from 3 May to 9 August, the sky over Nizhniy Novgorod 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. On 45 of those nights it does not even reach 12 degrees below the horizon, so the sky holds a pale blue right through the small hours.

How high does the sun get in Nizhniy Novgorod?

At midday on the June solstice the sun stands 57.1 degrees above the horizon in Nizhniy Novgorod. On the December solstice it climbs only 10.3 degrees. A midday sun that low throws a shadow about 5.5 times the height of whatever casts it, so even at noon in midwinter the shadows in Nizhniy Novgorod are long ones.

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Data and methodology: every time on this page is computed from Nizhniy Novgorod's coordinates with SunCalc, an open source astronomy library, not estimated or looked up from a table. Coordinates 56.33, 44.00, time zone Europe/Moscow. 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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