How short do the winter days get where I live?

Sunrise, sunset and daylight on the shortest day, the date of the earliest sunset, and when the evenings come back. Worked out from the sun's position for your exact town, not a regional average.

Your town

3,206 US places with 10,000 people or more. Times are local, for this winter.

The shortest day, Dec 21, from south to north. The bar is daylight; the last column is sunset.

Town	Daylight	Sunset
Honolulu, HI21.3°N	10h 50m	5:55 pm
Miami, FL25.8°N	10h 32m	5:35 pm
Houston, TX29.8°N	10h 14m	5:27 pm
San Diego, CA32.8°N	9h 59m	4:46 pm
Los Angeles, CA34.0°N	9h 53m	4:48 pm
San Jose, CA37.3°N	9h 36m	4:53 pm
New York, NY40.7°N	9h 16m	4:32 pm
Boston, MA42.3°N	9h 05m	4:15 pm
Seattle, WA47.6°N	8h 25m	4:20 pm
Bellingham, WA48.8°N	8h 16m	4:16 pm
Juneau, AK58.4°N	6h 21m	3:06 pm
Anchorage, AK61.2°N	5h 28m	3:39 pm
Fairbanks, AK64.8°N	3h 42m	2:40 pm

The darkest evening is not the shortest day

The sun's clock drifts through December, so evenings stop getting darker about two weeks before the solstice while mornings keep getting darker into January. In New York:

Dec 8Earliest sunset, 4:28 pmFrom here the evenings are already coming back.
Dec 21Shortest day, 9h 16m13 days later.
Jan 4Latest sunrise, 7:20 amThe mornings bottom out 14 days after that.

Every town page has its own three dates, plus the day it passes 10 hours of light again.

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