Today's Sunset
Today's sunset and civil twilight for your city — the reference for sandhya, night muhurats and pradosh kaal.
Step by step
- 1Pick your city or use location detection.
- 2See sunset and end of civil twilight.
- 3Use it to anchor sandhya vandana and pradosh puja.
- 4Bookmark — updates every day automatically.
Why devotees love this
- Anchors pradosh kaal, sandhya and night muhurats.
- Refraction-corrected — matches official references.
- Longitude and DST aware.
- Free and updates daily.
When people use Today's Sunset
- 1Scheduling pradosh puja (starts ~1.5 hours before sunset).
- 2Evening sandhya vandana timing.
- 3Fixing arati and deep-daan schedules at temples.
- 4Planning muhurats that begin after sunset.
Avoid these
- Using clock time '6:00 PM' as sunset — it varies by 90+ minutes across the year.
- Ignoring DST in western/foreign cities.
- Assuming pradosh = exact sunset — it is a window around it.
- Reading sunset from Delhi tables while in another state.
Sunset calculation
Sunset = moment when the Sun's upper limb sinks below the horizon with the standard −0°50′ refraction correction. Uses astronomy-engine ephemerides for the Sun's altitude.
Independently validated
±30 seconds vs USNO/NOAA references.
Your data stays with you
City preference stored locally on device only.
Frequently asked questions
The 96-minute window straddling sunset — precisely 1.5 hours before and after in most traditions.
Solar declination varies through the year; combined with your latitude, this shifts sunset up to ±90 minutes.
Yes — we handle polar day/night correctly.
No — civil twilight ends when the Sun is 6° below the horizon, ~30 minutes after sunset.
No — mountains and buildings will shift real sunset locally. We compute astronomical sunset.
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