Sunrise & sunset times in Santiago de los Caballeros

Sun and moon in Santiago de los Caballeros

For photographers, gardeners, runners and anyone chasing good light, the daily sun and moon schedule for Santiago de los Caballeros 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 Santiago de los Caballeros. Every value is calculated in the browser for the date you pick and shown in the local time of Santiago de los Caballeros, Dominican Republic. Santiago de los Caballeros sits at roughly 19.45 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 Santiago de los Caballeros 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 Santiago de los Caballeros. 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 Santiago de los Caballeros, Dominican Republic for any day of the year.

What time is sunset in Santiago de los Caballeros today?

The sun sets in Santiago de los Caballeros at 18:30 (just after midnight) today, Thursday, 1 October 2026, in Santiago de los Caballeros's own local time. The warm light starts well before that: evening golden hour opens at 18:00, 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 18:51, and the sky is properly dark at 19:42, 1h 13m after sunset.

Tomorrow the sun sets at 18:30 in Santiago de los Caballeros. That is 52 seconds earlier than today. Over the coming week sunset moves 5 minutes 55 seconds earlier.

Is the day getting longer or shorter in Santiago de los Caballeros right now?

Santiago de los Caballeros gets 11h 57m of daylight today, from sunrise to sunset. Tomorrow will be 1 minute 6 seconds shorter. Over the next seven days Santiago de los Caballeros loses 7 minutes 36 seconds of daylight.

That pace is not constant. In Santiago de los Caballeros the day length changes fastest around March, near the equinox, when it moves by about 1 minute 7 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 Santiago de los Caballeros?

The earliest sunset of 2026 in Santiago de los Caballeros falls on 24 November at 18:02, 27 days before the December solstice, and the latest on 5 July at 19:25.

Sunrise runs on its own schedule: earliest on 5 June at 06:03, latest on 17 January at 07:19, 27 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 Santiago de los Caballeros?

First light in Santiago de los Caballeros arrives 22 minutes before sunrise today, at 06:11. After sunset the light hangs on for another 22 minutes, until 18:51. That evening stretch is not the same all year in Santiago de los Caballeros: 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 Santiago de los Caballeros?

At midday on the June solstice the sun stands 86.0 degrees above the horizon in Santiago de los Caballeros. On the December solstice it climbs only 47.1 degrees. The midday sun stays high enough all year that noon shadows in Santiago de los Caballeros are always shorter than the object casting them, about 0.93 times their height at the lowest point of the year.

Twice a year, on 17 May and 25 July, the midday sun over Santiago de los Caballeros comes within half a degree of straight overhead, reaching 89.99 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 Santiago de los Caballeros

Data and methodology: every time on this page is computed from Santiago de los Caballeros's coordinates with SunCalc, an open source astronomy library, not estimated or looked up from a table. Coordinates 19.45, -70.69, time zone America/Santo_Domingo. 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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