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Sunrise and sunset today in Chennai
6:01 AM – 5:44 PM
Sunrise to sunset · 11 hours 43 minutes of daylight
Next: Wed 28 Oct, 6:01 AM – 5:44 PM
The Sun rises in Chennai at 6:01 AM today and sets at 5:44 PM, giving 11 hours 43 minutes of daylight.
All times are local to Chennai, computed for Asia/Kolkata (UTC+05:30).
| Event | Time | What it is |
|---|---|---|
| Sunrise | 6:01 AM | The Sun's upper edge reaching the horizon, for this city's coordinates. |
| Sunset | 5:44 PM | The Sun's upper edge leaving the horizon. |
| Day length | 11h 43m 09s | Sunrise to sunset. Called dinamana in a panchang. |
| Night length | 12h 17m 05s | Sunset to the next sunrise. Called ratrimana. |
| Moonrise | 6:39 PM | The first after today's sunrise, dated when it falls after midnight. |
| Moonset | 6:54 AM | As above. The Moon shifts by roughly 50 minutes a day. |
Daylight changes a little each day. These seven rows are calculated for Chennai and stay on this stable URL rather than creating dated pages. Tomorrow's sunrise and sunset for twelve cities, each on its own tomorrow, are on sunrise tomorrow.
| Date | Sunrise | Sunset | Daylight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Today | 6:01 AM | 5:44 PM | 11 hours 43 minutes |
| 6:01 AM | 5:44 PM | 11 hours 42 minutes | |
| 6:02 AM | 5:44 PM | 11 hours 41 minutes | |
| 6:02 AM | 5:43 PM | 11 hours 41 minutes | |
| 6:02 AM | 5:43 PM | 11 hours 40 minutes | |
| 6:02 AM | 5:42 PM | 11 hours 39 minutes | |
| 6:03 AM | 5:42 PM | 11 hours 39 minutes |
- Against New Delhi. Sunrise in Chennai today is at 6:01 AM, 28 minutes earlier than New Delhi (6:29 AM); sunset is at 5:44 PM, 3 minutes later than New Delhi (5:41 PM). Longitude: Chennai lies 3.1° east of Delhi, so local noon comes 12 minutes sooner (11:53 AM against 12:05 PM). Latitude: Chennai lies 15.5° south of Delhi, and from the September equinox to the March one, days run longer the further south you go; today's daylight here is 32 minutes longer (11 hours 43 minutes against 11 hours 11 minutes), which pulls sunrise earlier and pushes sunset later by about 16 minutes each.
- Tonight. 12 hours 17 minutes from sunset to tomorrow's sunrise — the ratrimana, whose eighths are the night Choghadiyas and whose twelfths are the night Horas.
- Local noon. Midway between sunrise and sunset, Chennai's noon falls at 11:53 AM today, 7 minutes before 12:00 on the clock. Chennai lies 2.2° west of the 82.5° E meridian its clock keeps, which makes noon 9 minutes late; the time of year (the equation of time) takes off 16 minutes today. Abhijit Muhurat is centred on this moment, not on twelve o'clock.
- Day length. Chennai has 11 hours 43 minutes of daylight today, against 11 hours 48 minutes a week ago and 11 hours 39 minutes a week from now: the days here are getting shorter by about 4 minutes a week, and will until the shortest day, around 21 December. In 2026 the longest day is 12 hours 54 minutes (around 21 June) and the shortest 11 hours 22 minutes (around 21 December), a swing of 1 hour 32 minutes, less than New Delhi's 3 hours 39 minutes.
- The year's extremes. The earliest sunrise of 2026 is 5:41 AM (around 31 May) and the latest 6:36 AM (around 24 January); the earliest sunset is 5:39 PM (around 19 November) and the latest 6:40 PM (around 9 July). None falls on a solstice: the Sun's clock time drifts through the year, so the latest mornings come weeks after the shortest day.
- The overhead Sun. Chennai lies 13.1° north of the equator, south of the Tropic of Cancer, so the noon Sun stands directly overhead twice a year: around 25 April and 18 August in 2026. On those two days an upright pole casts almost no shadow at local noon.
- The calendar here. Tamil Nadu keeps a solar calendar: today is day 10 of Aippasi in the Tamil calendar. The lunar day is Krishna Pratipada, in Ashwin counted new moon to new moon and in Kartika counted full moon to full moon.
- Nearest cities. Tirupati (110 km north-west) — sunrise 4 minutes later; Puducherry (136 km south) — sunrise 1 minute later.
Most of a panchang is measured from sunrise rather than from midnight, so the figure above sets the boundaries of the day's other timings in Chennai: Choghadiya, Hora and Rahu Kaal are all divisions of the interval between it and sunset.
For tithi, nakshatra, yoga, karana and the full set of muhurta windows, open the full Panchang for Chennai.
Both times are computed from this city's own latitude and longitude for today's date, not read from a national table. India keeps one clock across roughly 30 degrees of longitude, so real sunrise varies across the country by well over an hour.
Positions come from the Swiss Ephemeris, using this city's coordinates and today's date. Sunrise and sunset are the moments the Sun's upper edge crosses the horizon, which is the convention a printed panchang uses and the reason these times differ by a minute or two from a "centre of the disc" figure.
Moonrise and moonset come from the same calculation for the Moon. They are the first after this sunrise and before the next — the panchang day — so a moonrise after midnight carries the next date. The Moon rises roughly 50 minutes later each day, so on some days it does not rise at all in that span and that row is omitted rather than left blank.
Sunrise and sunset questions, answered
What time is sunrise in Chennai today?
The Sun rises in Chennai at 6:01 AM today, calculated for the city's own latitude and longitude rather than a national average.
What time is sunset in Chennai today?
Sunset in Chennai is at 5:44 PM today.
How long is the day in Chennai today?
11 hours 43 minutes of daylight and 12 hours 17 minutes of darkness. A panchang calls those two figures dinamana and ratrimana.
Why is sunrise in Chennai different from Delhi?
India keeps one clock across roughly 30 degrees of longitude, so actual sunrise differs across the country by well over an hour. Every figure here is computed for Chennai's coordinates, which is also why the Choghadiya, Hora and Rahu Kaal windows measured from it differ from Delhi's.
Delhi and every major city on one page: Sunrise and sunset today.
Sunrise and sunset are properties of a place, so each city is calculated separately. A time computed for Delhi is wrong in Chennai by a meaningful margin.
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