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Sunrise and sunset today in Ranchi
5:51 AM – 5:14 PM
Sunrise to sunset · 11 hours 22 minutes of daylight
Next: Wed 28 Oct, 5:52 AM – 5:13 PM
The Sun rises in Ranchi at 5:51 AM today and sets at 5:14 PM, giving 11 hours 22 minutes of daylight.
Moonrise
5:57 PM
In 17 h 54 m
Moonset
6:51 AM
In 6 h 48 m
All times are local to Ranchi, computed for Asia/Kolkata (UTC+05:30).
| Event | Time | What it is |
|---|---|---|
| Sunrise | 5:51 AM | The Sun's upper edge reaching the horizon, for this city's coordinates. |
| Sunset | 5:14 PM | The Sun's upper edge leaving the horizon. |
| Day length | 11h 22m 50s | Sunrise to sunset. Called dinamana in a panchang. |
| Night length | 12h 37m 41s | Sunset to the next sunrise. Called ratrimana. |
| Moonrise | 5:57 PM | The first after today's sunrise, dated when it falls after midnight. |
| Moonset | 6:51 AM | As above. The Moon shifts by roughly 50 minutes a day. |
Daylight changes a little each day. These seven rows are calculated for Ranchi 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 | 5:51 AM | 5:14 PM | 11 hours 22 minutes |
| 5:52 AM | 5:13 PM | 11 hours 21 minutes | |
| 5:52 AM | 5:13 PM | 11 hours 20 minutes | |
| 5:53 AM | 5:12 PM | 11 hours 19 minutes | |
| 5:53 AM | 5:11 PM | 11 hours 18 minutes | |
| 5:54 AM | 5:11 PM | 11 hours 16 minutes | |
| 5:54 AM | 5:10 PM | 11 hours 15 minutes |
- Against New Delhi. Sunrise in Ranchi today is at 5:51 AM, 38 minutes earlier than New Delhi (6:29 AM); sunset is at 5:14 PM, 27 minutes earlier than New Delhi (5:41 PM). Longitude: Ranchi lies 8.1° east of Delhi, so local noon comes 32 minutes sooner (11:33 AM against 12:05 PM). Latitude: Ranchi lies 5.3° 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 12 minutes longer (11 hours 23 minutes against 11 hours 11 minutes), which pulls sunrise earlier and pushes sunset later by about 6 minutes each.
- Tonight. 12 hours 38 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, Ranchi's noon falls at 11:33 AM today, 27 minutes before 12:00 on the clock. Ranchi lies 2.8° east of the 82.5° E meridian its clock keeps, which makes noon 11 minutes early; 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. Ranchi has 11 hours 23 minutes of daylight today, against 11 hours 32 minutes a week ago and 11 hours 15 minutes a week from now: the days here are getting shorter by about 8 minutes a week, and will until the shortest day, around 21 December. In 2026 the longest day is 13 hours 35 minutes (around 21 June) and the shortest 10 hours 42 minutes (around 21 December), a swing of 2 hours 52 minutes, less than New Delhi's 3 hours 39 minutes.
- The year's extremes. The earliest sunrise of 2026 is 5:02 AM (around 7 June) and the latest 6:32 AM (around 15 January); the earliest sunset is 5:02 PM (around 28 November) and the latest 6:39 PM (around 3 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. Ranchi lies 23.3° north of the equator, south of the Tropic of Cancer, so the noon Sun stands directly overhead twice a year: around 16 June and 26 June in 2026. On those two days an upright pole casts almost no shadow at local noon.
- The calendar here. Jharkhand counts its lunar months from full moon to full moon (purnimanta), so today is Kartika Krishna Pratipada. A panchang from a state that counts the other way prints the same day as Ashwin Krishna Pratipada: the festival date is the same, only the month's name moves.
- Nearest cities. Jamshedpur (109 km south-east) — sunrise 4 minutes earlier; Patna (251 km north) — sunrise 3 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 Ranchi: 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 Ranchi.
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 Ranchi today?
The Sun rises in Ranchi at 5:51 AM today, calculated for the city's own latitude and longitude rather than a national average.
What time is sunset in Ranchi today?
Sunset in Ranchi is at 5:14 PM today.
How long is the day in Ranchi today?
11 hours 22 minutes of daylight and 12 hours 37 minutes of darkness. A panchang calls those two figures dinamana and ratrimana.
Why is sunrise in Ranchi 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 Ranchi'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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