Sunrise & sunset times in Valparaiso

Sun and moon in Valparaiso

If you are scheduling a rooftop dinner or an early hike, the daily sun and moon schedule for Valparaiso 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 Valparaiso. Every value is calculated in the browser for the date you pick and shown in the local time of Valparaiso, Chile. Valparaiso sits at roughly 33.05 degrees south, in the southern 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 Valparaiso 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 Valparaiso. 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 Valparaiso, Chile for any day of the year.

What time is sunset in Valparaiso today?

The sun sets in Valparaiso at 19:49 (just after midnight) today, Thursday, 1 October 2026, in Valparaiso's own local time. The warm light starts well before that: evening golden hour opens at 19:17, giving 33 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 20:14, and the sky is properly dark at 21:13, 1h 24m after sunset.

Tomorrow the sun sets at 19:49 in Valparaiso. That is 42 seconds later than today. Over the coming week sunset moves 4 minutes 59 seconds later.

Planning around the light? See golden hour in Valparaiso.

Is the day getting longer or shorter in Valparaiso right now?

Valparaiso gets 12h 25m of daylight today, from sunrise to sunset. Tomorrow will be 2 minutes 2 seconds longer. Over the next seven days Valparaiso gains 14 minutes 11 seconds of daylight.

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

The earliest sunset of 2026 in Valparaiso falls on 11 June at 17:46, 10 days before the June solstice, and the latest on 6 January at 20:59.

Sunrise runs on its own schedule: earliest on 5 December at 06:30, latest on 4 April at 08:00, 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 Valparaiso 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 Valparaiso'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 Valparaiso.

How long does twilight last in Valparaiso?

First light in Valparaiso arrives 25 minutes before sunrise today, at 06:57. After sunset the light hangs on for another 25 minutes, until 20:14. That evening stretch is not the same all year in Valparaiso: it runs from 25 minutes at its shortest, in March, to 29 minutes at its longest, in December. 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 Valparaiso and dusk in Valparaiso.

How high does the sun get in Valparaiso?

At midday on the December solstice the sun stands 80.4 degrees above the horizon in Valparaiso. On the June solstice it climbs only 33.5 degrees. A midday sun that low throws a shadow about 1.5 times the height of whatever casts it, so even at noon in midwinter the shadows in Valparaiso are long ones.

Frequently asked questions about Valparaiso

Data and methodology: every time on this page is computed from Valparaiso's coordinates with SunCalc, an open source astronomy library, not estimated or looked up from a table. Coordinates -33.05, -71.61, time zone America/Santiago. 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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