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Sunrise and sunset times in Macquarie Plains

Check out today's and tomorrow's sunrise and sunset times in Macquarie Plains, as well as the whole calendar for October 2026.

Today

October 28, 2026. Current time: 5:30:55 am

Night ends at 4:16 am4:15:47 am
Start of astronomical twilight: the Sun is 18° below the horizon and the sky begins to brighten, too faintly to notice in a city.·First light at 5:32 am5:32:04 am
Start of civil twilight: the Sun is 6° below the horizon, and there is enough light to be outdoors without artificial light.

Sunrise time: 6:02:13 amWhen the top edge of the Sun appears over a flat, clear horizon. Behind hills, mountains or buildings the Sun appears a few minutes later (or more in a valley).

Sunset time: 7:50:47 pmWhen the top edge of the Sun disappears below a flat, clear horizon. Behind hills, mountains or buildings the Sun disappears a few minutes earlier (or more in a valley).

Dark at 8:21 pm8:21:03 pm
End of civil twilight: the Sun reaches 6° below the horizon, and from then on artificial light is needed outdoors.·Night at 9:38 pm9:37:47 pm
End of astronomical twilight: the Sun is 18° below the horizon and the sky is dark enough to see the faintest stars. In a city it looks dark sooner.

Sun position chart

Now · Sun altitude: -6.20° (below the horizon) · Azimuth: 114.06° (SE)

Daylight   Golden Hour   Blue Hour   Twilight   Night

Day length: 13 hours, 48 minutes

31 minutes left until today's sunrise in Macquarie Plains

Moonset: 6:40 am Moonrise: 10:50 pmMoon phase: 🌔 Waning Gibbous (96%)🌑 New moon: Nov 9 at 6:02 pm · 🌕 Full moon: Nov 25 at 1:53 am

Tomorrow

October 29, 2026

Night ends at 4:14 am4:13:50 am
Start of astronomical twilight: the Sun is 18° below the horizon and the sky begins to brighten, too faintly to notice in a city.·First light at 5:31 am5:30:32 am
Start of civil twilight: the Sun is 6° below the horizon, and there is enough light to be outdoors without artificial light.

Sunrise time: 6:00:47 amWhen the top edge of the Sun appears over a flat, clear horizon. Behind hills, mountains or buildings the Sun appears a few minutes later (or more in a valley).

Sunset time: 7:52:03 pmWhen the top edge of the Sun disappears below a flat, clear horizon. Behind hills, mountains or buildings the Sun disappears a few minutes earlier (or more in a valley).

Dark at 8:22 pm8:22:25 pm
End of civil twilight: the Sun reaches 6° below the horizon, and from then on artificial light is needed outdoors.·Night at 9:40 pm9:39:36 pm
End of astronomical twilight: the Sun is 18° below the horizon and the sky is dark enough to see the faintest stars. In a city it looks dark sooner.

Day length: 13 hours, 51 minutes

Tomorrow will be approximately 3 minutes longer than today in Macquarie Plains

Moonset: 7:29 am Moonrise: Oct 30, 12:02 amMoon phase: 🌔 Waning Gibbous (85%)

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• Latitude: -42.716671 (South)
• Longitude: 146.916672 (East)
• Time zone: Australian Eastern Daylight Time (AEDT, UTC+11)

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October 2026 - Macquarie Plains, Tasmania - Sunrise and sunset calendar

Sunrise and sunset times, civil twilight start and end times as well as solar noon, and day length for every day of October in Macquarie Plains.

All times are in Macquarie Plains's time: Australian Eastern Standard Time (AEST, UTC+10) until October 4, 2026, and Australian Eastern Daylight Time (AEDT, UTC+11) from then on.

The day length increases by 1 hour, 24 minutes over the course of October 2026 in Macquarie Plains, Tasmania - from 12 hours, 32 minutes on the first day to 13 hours, 56 minutes on the last day.

Year distribution of sunrise and sunset times in Macquarie Plains, Tasmania - 2026

The following graph shows sunrise and sunset times in Macquarie Plains, Tasmania for every day of the year. There are two jumps in the graph that represent the hour change for Daylight Saving Time (DST) in Macquarie Plains, Tasmania.

Macquarie Plains Analemma

Due to Earth's tilted axis and slightly elliptical orbit, the Sun is never seen in the same position at noon in Macquarie Plains. Throughout the year, it slowly traces this figure-eight:

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Macquarie Plains analemma interactive visualizer.
Move along the curve to read the Sun's altitude and azimuth for any day of the year in Macquarie Plains.

Over the year, the 12:00 Sun swings between just 23.8° above the horizon (around Jun 23) and 70.6° (around Dec 20) in Macquarie Plains. The smaller loop hangs at the bottom, the signature of a Southern Hemisphere analemma.

Detailed Analemma Chart

See a technical version of this analemma, with exact dates and Sun altitudes, and download it in high resolution.

The technical chart below plots one dot per day, labels the first day of each month, marks the solstices, equinoxes, perihelion and aphelion, and draws the noon altitude of the equinoxes (90° minus your latitude) together with its ±23.4° seasonal limits.

Download Macquarie Plains Analemma Chart (SVG)

Why does the figure look wider here than in the sky view above?

Both draw the same data, but with different conventions. The sky view uses the same scale on both axes, so it shows the analemma with its true proportions, as a camera would capture it: about 47° tall and only a few degrees wide. This chart, like most technical analemma diagrams, stretches each axis independently to fill the plot, expanding the narrow azimuth range several times so its day-to-day variation can actually be read. Also, azimuth is not sky distance: near the zenith, one degree of azimuth spans much less than one degree across the sky, which further widens the figure in this representation.