Sunrise & sunset times in Tel Aviv

Sun and moon in Tel Aviv

For photographers, gardeners, runners and anyone chasing good light, the daily sun and moon schedule for Tel Aviv 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 Tel Aviv. Every value is calculated in the browser for the date you pick and shown in the local time of Tel Aviv, Israel. Tel Aviv sits at roughly 32.09 degrees north, in the northern hemisphere, so it sees a gentle seasonal swing, since day length stays fairly even through the year and the sun climbs high overhead in summer. Because the length of the day changes with the seasons, the exact sunrise and sunset in Tel Aviv 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 Tel Aviv. 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 Tel Aviv, Israel for any day of the year.

What time is sunset in Tel Aviv today?

The sun sets in Tel Aviv at 18:24 today, Friday, 2 October 2026, in Tel Aviv's own local time. The warm light starts well before that: evening golden hour opens at 17:52, giving 32 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 24 minutes later at 18:49, and the sky is properly dark at 19:45, 1h 21m after sunset.

Tomorrow the sun sets at 18:23 in Tel Aviv. That is 1 minute 17 seconds earlier than today. Over the coming week sunset moves 8 minutes 50 seconds earlier.

Planning around the light? See golden hour in Tel Aviv.

Is the day getting longer or shorter in Tel Aviv right now?

Tel Aviv gets 11h 49m of daylight today, from sunrise to sunset. Tomorrow will be 1 minute 56 seconds shorter. Over the next seven days Tel Aviv loses 13 minutes 32 seconds of daylight.

That pace is not constant. In Tel Aviv the day length changes fastest around March, near the equinox, when it moves by about 1 minute 59 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 Tel Aviv?

The earliest sunset of 2026 in Tel Aviv falls on 3 December at 16:35, 18 days before the December solstice, and the latest on 29 June at 19:51.

Sunrise runs on its own schedule: earliest on 12 June at 05:34, latest on 24 October at 06:51, 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 Tel Aviv 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 Tel Aviv'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.

For the longest and shortest day themselves, see day length in Tel Aviv.

How long does twilight last in Tel Aviv?

First light in Tel Aviv arrives 24 minutes before sunrise today, at 06:10. After sunset the light hangs on for another 24 minutes, until 18:49. That evening stretch is not the same all year in Tel Aviv: it runs from 24 minutes at its shortest, in September, to 28 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.

Full three-band twilight tables: dawn in Tel Aviv and dusk in Tel Aviv.

How high does the sun get in Tel Aviv?

At midday on the June solstice the sun stands 81.4 degrees above the horizon in Tel Aviv. On the December solstice it climbs only 34.5 degrees. Even at that lowest point, a noon shadow in Tel Aviv is only about 1.5 times the height of the object casting it.

Frequently asked questions about Tel Aviv

Data and methodology: every time on this page is computed from Tel Aviv's coordinates with SunCalc, an open source astronomy library, not estimated or looked up from a table. Coordinates 32.09, 34.78, time zone Asia/Jerusalem. 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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