Sunrise and sunset on the Virgin Islands

Average length of daylight in Charlotte Amalie

      sunshine duration       twilight phase

Sunrise and sunset in the most important cities of the Virgin Islands

The cities are ordered by their geographic position from east to west, so in an approximate direction of the sun course. Since the orbit of the sun is elliptical, sunrise or sunset never happen on a whole longitude at the same time. All data given for January 23rd., localtime on the Virgin Islands

Sunrise and sunset by month (Charlotte Amalie)

Duration of the sunset

The distance from the equator and the path of the sun determines not only the time of sunrise and sunset. The farther a country is from the equator, the more oblique the sun's path is to the horizon. And this causes a different duration that a sunset takes. Charlotte Amalie lies on the 18th degree of northern latitude and thus a good distance from the equator.While a sunset in the northern USA or central Europe can take almost an hour, on the Virgin Islands it only lasts an average of 24 minutes. The Virgin Islands is so close to the equator that there is no noticeable difference even between June and December.

International cities for comparison