Astronomy Answers
AstronomyAnswerBook: The Position of the Sun: Tables

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1. Times of Sunrise

The next table shows times of sunrise for some days spread across the year 2002 in the Gregorian calendar, for some geographical latitudes spread across the Earth. The times are also useful for other years (see below). The first column shows the date in the form month_number-day_number. The other columns show the times in the form hour:minute, with a separate column for each latitude. An isolated number in or above a column indicates the latitude for which that column is valid, with negative numbers for southern latitudes and positive numbers for northern latitudes (measured in degrees). For example, +45 means 45 degrees north latitude. The times are shown using a 24-hour clock. For example, 1:00 is 1 o'clock AM, and 13:00 is 1 o'clock PM. The times are local times, which for a given location usually differ from the official clock time by a fixed amount. This is explained later. A time equal to 0:00 mean that there is no sunrise at that location and date.

Table 1: Time of Sunrise for Days and Latitudes

2. Times of Noon

The following table shows, similarly to the previous table, times of solar transit, when the Sun is highest in the sky (if it gets above the horizon at all). These times do not depend on the geographical latitude.

Table 2: Time of Solar Transit for Latitudes

3. Times of Sunset

The next table shows times of sunset, similarly to the table of times of sunrise given earlier.

Table 3: Time of Sunset for Days and Latitudes