Sunrise & sunset times in Oklahoma City

Sun and moon in Oklahoma City

For photographers, gardeners, runners and anyone chasing good light, the daily sun and moon schedule for Oklahoma City 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 Oklahoma City. Every value is calculated in the browser for the date you pick and shown in the local time of Oklahoma City, United States. Oklahoma City sits at roughly 35.47 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 Oklahoma City 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 Oklahoma City. 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 Oklahoma City, United States for any day of the year.

What time is sunset in Oklahoma City today?

The sun sets in Oklahoma City at 19:12 (just after midnight) today, Thursday, 1 October 2026, in Oklahoma City's own local time. The warm light starts well before that: evening golden hour opens at 18:38, giving 34 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 25 minutes later at 19:37, and the sky is properly dark at 20:36, 1h 24m after sunset.

Tomorrow the sun sets at 19:12 in Oklahoma City. That is 1 minute 25 seconds earlier than today. Over the coming week sunset moves 9 minutes 48 seconds earlier.

Is the day getting longer or shorter in Oklahoma City right now?

Oklahoma City gets 11h 49m of daylight today, from sunrise to sunset. Tomorrow will be 2 minutes 13 seconds shorter. Over the next seven days Oklahoma City loses 15 minutes 24 seconds of daylight.

That pace is not constant. In Oklahoma City the day length changes fastest around March, near the equinox, when it moves by about 2 minutes 15 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 Oklahoma City?

The earliest sunset of 2026 in Oklahoma City falls on 5 December at 17:16, 16 days before the December solstice, and the latest on 28 June at 20:49.

Sunrise runs on its own schedule: earliest on 12 June at 06:14, latest on 31 October at 07:50, 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 Oklahoma City 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 Oklahoma City'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 Oklahoma City?

First light in Oklahoma City arrives 25 minutes before sunrise today, at 07:00. After sunset the light hangs on for another 25 minutes, until 19:37. That evening stretch is not the same all year in Oklahoma City: it runs from 25 minutes at its shortest, in September, to 30 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 Oklahoma City?

At midday on the June solstice the sun stands 78.0 degrees above the horizon in Oklahoma City. On the December solstice it climbs only 31.1 degrees. A midday sun that low throws a shadow about 1.7 times the height of whatever casts it, so even at noon in midwinter the shadows in Oklahoma City are long ones.

Frequently asked questions about Oklahoma City

Data and methodology: every time on this page is computed from Oklahoma City's coordinates with SunCalc, an open source astronomy library, not estimated or looked up from a table. Coordinates 35.47, -97.52, time zone America/Chicago. 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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