What time does the sunrise and set for each season?

Answer 1

These times are not the same everywhere; they depend on where you are on the globe. As an extreme example to illustrate the point, if you are very near the north pole in the winter, you will go long periods without a sunrise. Give a major city, and we can determine times for that area.

Answer 2

The time of sunrise and sunset is very dependent on the date and exact location. A difference of 15 miles can change the time of sunrise or sunset by a minute. Please re-post your question with a city name or zip code.

You can easily calculate the time of sunrise or sunset by visiting the web site of the U.S. Naval Observatory at http://www.usno.navy.mil/USNO/astronomical-applications/data-services/rs-one-day-us.

Answer 3

At the time of the summer solstice, the hemisphere is about 63% illuminated, and at the time of the winter solstice, it's about 37% illuminated. The amount of the hemisphere that is illuminated is always changing at a steady rate. Since you're rotating through more sunlight and less darkness each day as you approach the summer solstice, the sunrise times get earlier and the sunset times get later. The opposite happens after you pass the summer solstice and you're approaching the winter solstice.

Answer 4

The sun doesn't actually rise and set. It just seems that way because we can't feel the Earth rotating since the speed of the Earth's rotation is constant. A day is the time it takes the Earth to complete one rotation, so once a day the place where you are rotates into the sunlight (sunrise), and once a day it rotates out of the sunlight (sunset).

Answer 5

There is one sunrise and one sunset every day at every place on Earth between the Arctic Circle and the Antarctic Circle. For every place north of the Arctic Circle and south of the Antarctic Circle, there is at least one day in the winter when the sun never rises and at least one day in the summer when the sun never sets. Directly at the geographic North and South Poles, there is one sunrise and one sunset per year.

Answer 6

The exact times of sunrise and sunset vary by location and date, but generally speaking: in spring, sunrise tends to occur earlier and sunset later; in summer, sunrise is earlier and sunset is later; in fall, sunrise is later and sunset is earlier; and in winter, sunrise is later and sunset is earlier.

Answer 7

It depends on where you live.