Sunrise and sunset in Ukraine

Sunrise today: 7:40 h
Sunset today: 17:42 h

(Times for Kiev)

The times of sunrise and sunset in Ukraine are significantly influenced by the country's very northern position in the hemisphere. Relatively high in the north the days in summer are long and short in winter. With up to approximately 16:30 hours the longest days happen in Juni. On the other hand, the longest and darkest nights are in winter (in the southern hemisphere it is the other way around). In Dezember a night in Kiev lasts almost 16 hours.

In these days the sun in Kiev rises at 7:40. The early sunset at 17:42 makes the day currently a bit too short.

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Average length of daylight in Kiev

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Sunrise and sunset in the most important cities of Ukraine

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 October 28th., localtime in Ukraine

City	Sunrise	Sunset	Hours of daylight
Luhansk	07:01 am	05:11 pm	10:10 h
Makiyivka	07:05 am	05:18 pm	10:13 h
Donetsk	07:06 am	05:18 pm	10:13 h
Mariupol	07:05 am	05:21 pm	10:16 h
Kharkiv	07:16 am	05:20 pm	10:04 h
Dnepropetrovsk	07:18 am	05:29 pm	10:11 h
Poltava	07:22 am	05:28 pm	10:06 h
Simferopol	07:15 am	05:39 pm	10:24 h
Sevastopol	07:16 am	05:42 pm	10:26 h
Kryvyi Rih	07:23 am	05:36 pm	10:13 h
Kherson	07:24 am	05:42 pm	10:18 h
Cherkasy	07:32 am	05:38 pm	10:07 h
Mykolayiv	07:27 am	05:44 pm	10:17 h
Chernihiv	07:39 am	05:37 pm	9:57 h
Odessa	07:31 am	05:50 pm	10:19 h
Kiev	07:40 am	05:42 pm	10:02 h
Zhytomyr	07:47 am	05:50 pm	10:03 h
Vinnytsya	07:46 am	05:53 pm	10:07 h
Khmel’nyts’kyy	07:52 am	05:59 pm	10:07 h
L'viv	08:05 am	06:10 pm	10:05 h

Sunrise and sunset by month (Kiev)

Month	Sunrise	Sunset	Hours of daylight
Januar	07:50 am	04:24 pm	8:34 h
Februar	07:07 am	05:16 pm	10:10 h
März	06:09 am	06:04 pm	11:55 h
April	06:01 am	07:54 pm	13:52 h
Mai	05:07 am	08:40 pm	15:33 h
Juni	04:43 am	09:13 pm	16:30 h
Juli	05:01 am	09:06 pm	16:04 h
August	05:45 am	08:19 pm	14:35 h
September	06:32 am	07:13 pm	12:42 h
Oktober	07:19 am	06:08 pm	10:49 h
November	07:10 am	04:14 pm	9:04 h
Dezember	07:50 am	03:56 pm	8:06 h

Where does the sun rise in Ukraine?

The sun always rises in the east, everywhere and regardless of the country or continent. The easternmost city in Ukraine is Milove in the region of Luhansk. There, the sun rises at 6:59 am and sets at 5:06 pm these days. The latest sunset is currently experienced in the west in the city of Chop (Zakarpattia) at 6:20 pm.

International cities for comparison

City	Sunrise	Sunset	Hours of daylight
Berlin (Germany)	07:54 am	05:46 pm	9:52 h
New York (USA)	07:19 am	06:00 pm	10:40 h
Sydney (Australia)	05:57 am	07:20 pm	13:23 h
Manila (Philippines)	05:49 am	05:30 pm	11:41 h
Moscow (Russia)	07:25 am	05:00 pm	9:35 h
Shanghai (China)	06:05 am	05:10 pm	11:05 h
Helsinki (Finland)	08:31 am	05:36 pm	9:06 h