Daylight

Daylight at Brixen.

Every day of 2026 in local clock time. Colour is the true elevation of the sun, so dawn and dusk shade in as they actually happen rather than as fixed bands.

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2026

The whole year on one plate, with sunrise and sunset drawn over it.

 

02

The day you picked

Tap or drag across the chart to move the dashed line. Arrow keys nudge it by a day.
Date
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Sunrise
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Sunset
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First light, dawn begins
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Last light, dusk ends
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Against the day before
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Against today
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03

Day against night

The same year again, this time as a balance: how much of each day the sun spends above the horizon, and how much below it. Twice a year the two come out level.
Day
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Night
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04

How fast the light is moving

Minutes of daylight gained or lost from one day to the next. The curve crosses zero at the solstices, when the length of the day briefly stalls, and peaks around the equinoxes.

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05

Morning and evening

The same change, split into the two ends of the day. Above the line that end is gaining light, below it is losing. The two curves cross zero on different dates, which is why the earliest sunset falls well before midwinter and the latest sunrise well after it.
At the sunrise end
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At the sunset end
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Times come from a low-precision solar position model, accurate to roughly a minute, and they ignore refraction oddities and the local horizon. In a valley the sun disappears behind a ridge well before the geometric sunset drawn here.

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