Sunrise & sunset times in Yaroslavl

Sun and moon in Yaroslavl

If you are scheduling a rooftop dinner or an early hike, the daily sun and moon schedule for Yaroslavl 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 Yaroslavl. Every value is calculated in the browser for the date you pick and shown in the local time of Yaroslavl, Russia. Yaroslavl sits at roughly 57.63 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 Yaroslavl 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 Yaroslavl. 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 Yaroslavl, Russia for any day of the year.

What time is sunset in Yaroslavl today?

The sun sets in Yaroslavl at 17:52 today, Friday, 2 October 2026, in Yaroslavl's own local time. The warm light starts well before that: evening golden hour opens at 17:00, giving 52 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 39 minutes later at 18:30, and the sky is properly dark at 20:03, 2h 11m after sunset.

Tomorrow the sun sets at 17:49 in Yaroslavl. That is 2 minutes 46 seconds earlier than today. Over the coming week sunset moves 19 minutes 12 seconds earlier.

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

Yaroslavl gets 11h 26m of daylight today, from sunrise to sunset. Tomorrow will be 4 minutes 54 seconds shorter. Over the next seven days Yaroslavl loses 34 minutes 18 seconds of daylight.

That pace is not constant. In Yaroslavl the day length changes fastest around March, near the equinox, when it moves by about 4 minutes 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 Yaroslavl?

The earliest sunset of 2026 in Yaroslavl falls on 15 December at 15:33, 6 days before the December solstice, and the latest on 23 June at 21:24.

Sunrise runs on its own schedule: earliest on 18 June at 03:19, latest on 28 December at 09:03, 7 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 Yaroslavl?

First light in Yaroslavl arrives 39 minutes before sunrise today, at 05:47. After sunset the light hangs on for another 39 minutes, until 18:30. That evening stretch is not the same all year in Yaroslavl: it runs from 39 minutes at its shortest, in September, to 1h 13m 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 107 nights of 2026, the longest stretch running from 29 April to 13 August, the sky over Yaroslavl 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 61 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.

How high does the sun get in Yaroslavl?

At midday on the June solstice the sun stands 55.8 degrees above the horizon in Yaroslavl. On the December solstice it climbs only 9.0 degrees. A midday sun that low throws a shadow about 6.3 times the height of whatever casts it, so even at noon in midwinter the shadows in Yaroslavl are long ones.

Frequently asked questions about Yaroslavl

Data and methodology: every time on this page is computed from Yaroslavl's coordinates with SunCalc, an open source astronomy library, not estimated or looked up from a table. Coordinates 57.63, 39.87, 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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