Sunrise & sunset times in Saint Petersburg

Sun and moon in Saint Petersburg

Landscape and street photographers who plan around the light rely on the daily sun and moon schedule for Saint Petersburg, 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 Saint Petersburg. Every value is calculated in the browser for the date you pick and shown in the local time of Saint Petersburg, Russia. Saint Petersburg sits at roughly 59.93 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 Saint Petersburg 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 Saint Petersburg. 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 Saint Petersburg, Russia for any day of the year.

What time is sunset in Saint Petersburg today?

The sun sets in Saint Petersburg at 18:28 today, Friday, 2 October 2026, in Saint Petersburg's own local time. The warm light starts well before that: evening golden hour opens at 17:32, giving 56 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 41 minutes later at 19:09, and the sky is properly dark at 20:48, 2h 20m after sunset.

Tomorrow the sun sets at 18:25 in Saint Petersburg. That is 3 minutes earlier than today. Over the coming week sunset moves 20 minutes 51 seconds earlier.

Planning around the light? See golden hour in Saint Petersburg.

Is the day getting longer or shorter in Saint Petersburg right now?

Saint Petersburg gets 11h 23m of daylight today, from sunrise to sunset. Tomorrow will be 5 minutes 23 seconds shorter. Over the next seven days Saint Petersburg loses 37 minutes 37 seconds of daylight.

That pace is not constant. In Saint Petersburg the day length changes fastest around March, near the equinox, when it moves by about 5 minutes 28 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 Saint Petersburg?

The earliest sunset of 2026 in Saint Petersburg falls on 16 December at 15:52, 5 days before the December solstice, and the latest on 23 June at 22:25.

Sunrise runs on its own schedule: earliest on 19 June at 03:34, latest on 27 December at 10:01, 6 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.

For the longest and shortest day themselves, see day length in Saint Petersburg.

How long does twilight last in Saint Petersburg?

First light in Saint Petersburg arrives 41 minutes before sunrise today, at 06:24. After sunset the light hangs on for another 41 minutes, until 19:09. That evening stretch is not the same all year in Saint Petersburg: it runs from 41 minutes at its shortest, in September, to 1h 45m 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 121 nights of 2026, the longest stretch running from 22 April to 20 August, the sky over Saint Petersburg 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 81 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.

Full three-band twilight tables: dawn in Saint Petersburg and dusk in Saint Petersburg.

How high does the sun get in Saint Petersburg?

At midday on the June solstice the sun stands 53.5 degrees above the horizon in Saint Petersburg. On the December solstice it climbs only 6.8 degrees. A midday sun that low throws a shadow about 8.4 times the height of whatever casts it, so even at noon in midwinter the shadows in Saint Petersburg are long ones.

Frequently asked questions about Saint Petersburg

Data and methodology: every time on this page is computed from Saint Petersburg's coordinates with SunCalc, an open source astronomy library, not estimated or looked up from a table. Coordinates 59.93, 30.36, 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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