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Sunrise and sunset today in Kanyakumari
6:07 AM – 6:00 PM
Sunrise to sunset · 11 hours 52 minutes of daylight
Next: Wed 28 Oct, 6:08 AM – 6:00 PM
The Sun rises in Kanyakumari at 6:07 AM today and sets at 6:00 PM, giving 11 hours 52 minutes of daylight.
Moonrise
6:59 PM
In 18 h 54 m
Moonset
6:57 AM
In 6 h 51 m
All times are local to Kanyakumari, computed for Asia/Kolkata (UTC+05:30).
| Event | Time | What it is |
|---|---|---|
| Sunrise | 6:07 AM | The Sun's upper edge reaching the horizon, for this city's coordinates. |
| Sunset | 6:00 PM | The Sun's upper edge leaving the horizon. |
| Day length | 11h 52m 25s | Sunrise to sunset. Called dinamana in a panchang. |
| Night length | 12h 07m 41s | Sunset to the next sunrise. Called ratrimana. |
| Moonrise | 6:59 PM | The first after today's sunrise, dated when it falls after midnight. |
| Moonset | 6:57 AM | As above. The Moon shifts by roughly 50 minutes a day. |
Daylight changes a little each day. These seven rows are calculated for Kanyakumari 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 | 6:07 AM | 6:00 PM | 11 hours 52 minutes |
| 6:08 AM | 6:00 PM | 11 hours 52 minutes | |
| 6:08 AM | 5:59 PM | 11 hours 51 minutes | |
| 6:08 AM | 5:59 PM | 11 hours 51 minutes | |
| 6:08 AM | 5:59 PM | 11 hours 50 minutes | |
| 6:08 AM | 5:59 PM | 11 hours 50 minutes | |
| 6:08 AM | 5:58 PM | 11 hours 50 minutes |
- Against New Delhi. Sunrise in Kanyakumari today is at 6:07 AM, 22 minutes earlier than New Delhi (6:29 AM); sunset is at 6:00 PM, 19 minutes later than New Delhi (5:41 PM). Longitude: Kanyakumari lies 0.3° east of Delhi, so local noon comes 1 minute sooner (12:04 PM against 12:05 PM). Latitude: Kanyakumari lies 20.5° 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 41 minutes longer (11 hours 52 minutes against 11 hours 11 minutes), which pulls sunrise earlier and pushes sunset later by about 20 minutes each.
- Tonight. 12 hours 8 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, Kanyakumari's noon falls at 12:04 PM today, 4 minutes after 12:00 on the clock. Kanyakumari lies 5.0° west of the 82.5° E meridian its clock keeps, which makes noon 20 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. Kanyakumari has 11 hours 52 minutes of daylight today, against 11 hours 55 minutes a week ago and 11 hours 50 minutes a week from now: the days here are getting shorter by about 3 minutes a week, and will until the shortest day, around 21 December. In 2026 the longest day is 12 hours 36 minutes (around 20 June) and the shortest 11 hours 40 minutes (around 21 December), a swing of 56 minutes, less than New Delhi's 3 hours 39 minutes.
- The year's extremes. The earliest sunrise of 2026 is 6:00 AM (around 26 May) and the latest 6:40 AM (around 30 January); the earliest sunset is 5:57 PM (around 13 November) and the latest 6:42 PM (around 13 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. Kanyakumari lies 8.1° north of the equator, south of the Tropic of Cancer, so the noon Sun stands directly overhead twice a year: around 10 April and 1 September 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. Thiruvananthapuram (82 km north-west) — sunrise 3 minutes later; Kollam (135 km north-west) — sunrise 5 minutes 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 Kanyakumari: 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 Kanyakumari.
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 Kanyakumari today?
The Sun rises in Kanyakumari at 6:07 AM today, calculated for the city's own latitude and longitude rather than a national average.
What time is sunset in Kanyakumari today?
Sunset in Kanyakumari is at 6:00 PM today.
How long is the day in Kanyakumari today?
11 hours 52 minutes of daylight and 12 hours 7 minutes of darkness. A panchang calls those two figures dinamana and ratrimana.
Why is sunrise in Kanyakumari 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 Kanyakumari'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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