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Sunrise and sunset today in Madurai
6:07 AM – 5:56 PM
Sunrise to sunset · 11 hours 49 minutes of daylight
Next: Wed 28 Oct, 6:07 AM – 5:56 PM
The Sun rises in Madurai at 6:07 AM today and sets at 5:56 PM, giving 11 hours 49 minutes of daylight.
Moonrise
6:53 PM
In 17 h 48 m
Moonset
6:57 AM
In 5 h 52 m
All times are local to Madurai, 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 | 5:56 PM | The Sun's upper edge leaving the horizon. |
| Day length | 11h 49m 02s | Sunrise to sunset. Called dinamana in a panchang. |
| Night length | 12h 11m 07s | Sunset to the next sunrise. Called ratrimana. |
| Moonrise | 6:53 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 Madurai 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 | 5:56 PM | 11 hours 49 minutes |
| 6:07 AM | 5:56 PM | 11 hours 48 minutes | |
| 6:07 AM | 5:55 PM | 11 hours 48 minutes | |
| 6:07 AM | 5:55 PM | 11 hours 47 minutes | |
| 6:08 AM | 5:55 PM | 11 hours 47 minutes | |
| 6:08 AM | 5:54 PM | 11 hours 46 minutes | |
| 6:08 AM | 5:54 PM | 11 hours 46 minutes |
- Against New Delhi. Sunrise in Madurai today is at 6:07 AM, 22 minutes earlier than New Delhi (6:29 AM); sunset is at 5:56 PM, 15 minutes later than New Delhi (5:41 PM). Longitude: Madurai lies 0.9° east of Delhi, so local noon comes 4 minutes sooner (12:01 PM against 12:05 PM). Latitude: Madurai lies 18.7° 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 38 minutes longer (11 hours 49 minutes against 11 hours 11 minutes), which pulls sunrise earlier and pushes sunset later by about 19 minutes each.
- Tonight. 12 hours 11 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, Madurai's noon falls at 12:01 PM today, 1 minute after 12:00 on the clock. Madurai lies 4.4° west of the 82.5° E meridian its clock keeps, which makes noon 18 minutes late; the time of year (the equation of time) takes off 17 minutes today. Abhijit Muhurat is centred on this moment, not on twelve o'clock.
- Day length. Madurai has 11 hours 49 minutes of daylight today, against 11 hours 52 minutes a week ago and 11 hours 46 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 43 minutes (around 21 June) and the shortest 11 hours 33 minutes (around 21 December), a swing of 1 hour 9 minutes, less than New Delhi's 3 hours 39 minutes.
- The year's extremes. The earliest sunrise of 2026 is 5:55 AM (around 28 May) and the latest 6:40 AM (around 27 January); the earliest sunset is 5:52 PM (around 16 November) and the latest 6:43 PM (around 12 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. Madurai lies 9.9° north of the equator, south of the Tropic of Cancer, so the noon Sun stands directly overhead twice a year: around 15 April and 27 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. Tiruchirappalli (116 km north-east) — sunrise 2 minutes earlier; Coimbatore (176 km north-west) — sunrise 6 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 Madurai: 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 Madurai.
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 Madurai today?
The Sun rises in Madurai at 6:07 AM today, calculated for the city's own latitude and longitude rather than a national average.
What time is sunset in Madurai today?
Sunset in Madurai is at 5:56 PM today.
How long is the day in Madurai today?
11 hours 49 minutes of daylight and 12 hours 11 minutes of darkness. A panchang calls those two figures dinamana and ratrimana.
Why is sunrise in Madurai 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 Madurai'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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