Observed arrival · 2026-11-11
Winter daylight, town by town
TheDarkestDay calculates winter sunrise, sunset, and daylight timings for 3,206 US places.
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- US residents comparing winter daylight in their town
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- For New York, the page places earliest sunset 13 days before the solstice and latest sunrise 14 days after it.
Field notes
The page separates three seasonal milestones that are easy to conflate: earliest sunset, shortest day, and latest sunrise. Its New York example places those on Dec. 8, Dec. 21, and Jan. 4, respectively. The home page also gives a state-by-state index and says the town set includes places with at least 10,000 residents; times are presented as local times for this winter.
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