Sunrise & sunset times in Port-au-Prince

Sun and moon in Port-au-Prince

From early risers to golden hour photographers, the daily sun and moon schedule for Port-au-Prince 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 Port-au-Prince. Every value is calculated in the browser for the date you pick and shown in the local time of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Port-au-Prince sits at roughly 18.54 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 Port-au-Prince 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 Port-au-Prince. 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 Port-au-Prince, Haiti for any day of the year.

What time is sunset in Port-au-Prince today?

The sun sets in Port-au-Prince at 18:36 (just after midnight) today, Thursday, 1 October 2026, in Port-au-Prince's own local time. The warm light starts well before that: evening golden hour opens at 18:07, giving 29 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 22 minutes later at 18:58, and the sky is properly dark at 19:49, 1h 12m after sunset.

Tomorrow the sun sets at 18:36 in Port-au-Prince. That is 50 seconds earlier than today. Over the coming week sunset moves 5 minutes 43 seconds earlier.

Is the day getting longer or shorter in Port-au-Prince right now?

Port-au-Prince gets 11h 58m of daylight today, from sunrise to sunset. Tomorrow will be 1 minute 2 seconds shorter. Over the next seven days Port-au-Prince loses 7 minutes 13 seconds of daylight.

That pace is not constant. In Port-au-Prince the day length changes fastest around March, near the equinox, when it moves by about 1 minute 4 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 Port-au-Prince?

The earliest sunset of 2026 in Port-au-Prince falls on 24 November at 17:10, 27 days before the December solstice, and the latest on 5 July at 19:30.

Sunrise runs on its own schedule: earliest on 1 November at 05:49, latest on 8 March at 07:03, 77 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 Port-au-Prince'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 Port-au-Prince?

First light in Port-au-Prince arrives 22 minutes before sunrise today, at 06:18. After sunset the light hangs on for another 22 minutes, until 18:58. That evening stretch is not the same all year in Port-au-Prince: it runs from 22 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 Port-au-Prince?

At midday on the June solstice the sun stands 85.1 degrees above the horizon in Port-au-Prince. On the December solstice it climbs only 48.0 degrees. The midday sun stays high enough all year that noon shadows in Port-au-Prince are always shorter than the object casting them, about 0.90 times their height at the lowest point of the year.

Twice a year, on 13 May and 29 July, the midday sun over Port-au-Prince comes within half a degree of straight overhead, reaching 89.96 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 Port-au-Prince

Data and methodology: every time on this page is computed from Port-au-Prince's coordinates with SunCalc, an open source astronomy library, not estimated or looked up from a table. Coordinates 18.54, -72.34, time zone America/Port-au-Prince. 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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