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Sunrise and sunset times in Castañares de las Cuevas

🕐Clocks go back one hour tomorrow at 3:00 am (CEST → CET). From tomorrow, sunrise and sunset come an hour earlier on the clock. Fri, Oct 23FriSat, Oct 24SatSun, Oct 25SunMon, Oct 26Mon Sunrise8:32 am8:33 am→7:34 am7:35 am Sunset7:16 pm7:14 pm→6:13 pm6:11 pm

Today

October 24, 2026. Current time: 11:48:39 am

Sunrise time: 8:33:28 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).

6:59Night ends6:59:28 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.8:05First light8:04:46 am
Start of civil twilight: the Sun is 6° below the horizon, and there is enough light to be outdoors without artificial light.8:05–8:16Blue hour8:04:46 am – 8:15:49 am
Blue hour: the Sun is between 6° and 4° below the horizon. The sky turns deep blue and lit buildings stand out against it.8:16–9:13Golden hour8:15:49 am – 9:12:31 am
Golden hour: the Sun is between 4° below and 6° above the horizon. The light is warm and soft and the shadows are long.

Sunset time: 7:14:40 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).

6:36–7:32Golden hour6:35:40 pm – 7:32:19 pm
Golden hour: the Sun is between 4° below and 6° above the horizon. The light is warm and soft and the shadows are long.7:32–7:43Blue hour7:32:19 pm – 7:43:21 pm
Blue hour: the Sun is between 6° and 4° below the horizon. The sky turns deep blue and lit buildings stand out against it.7:43Dark7:43:21 pm
End of civil twilight: the Sun reaches 6° below the horizon, and from then on artificial light is needed outdoors.8:49Night8:48:34 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: 28.66° · Azimuth: 144.4° (SE)

Daylight   Golden Hour   Blue Hour   Twilight   Night

Day length: 10 hours, 41 minutes

7 hours, 26 minutes left for today's sunset in Castañares de las Cuevas

Moonset: 6:29 am Moonrise: 6:07 pmMoon phase: 🌔 Waxing Gibbous (96%)🌕 Full moon: Oct 26 at 5:11 am · 🌑 New moon: Nov 9 at 8:02 am

Tomorrow

October 25, 2026

Night ends at 6:01 am6:00:34 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 7:06 am7:05:56 am
Dawn, the start of civil twilight: the Sun is 6° below the horizon, and there is enough light to be outdoors without artificial light.

Sunrise time: 7:34:41 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: 6:13:14 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 6:42 pm6:41:57 pm
Dusk, the end of civil twilight: the Sun reaches 6° below the horizon, and from then on artificial light is needed outdoors.·Night at 7:47 pm7:47:14 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: 10 hours, 38 minutes

Tomorrow will be 3 minutes shorter than today in Castañares de las Cuevas

Moonset: 6:42 am Moonrise: 5:32 pmMoon phase: 🌔 Waxing Gibbous (99.7%)

• Castañares de las Cuevas, La Rioja
• Latitude: 42.31086 (North)
• Longitude: -2.55416 (West)
• Time zone: Central European Summer Time (CEST, UTC+2)

Eclipses seen from Castañares de las Cuevas in the next 12 months:

August 2, 2027: Partial solar eclipse from here: 78% of the Sun covered at 10:53 am.

February 21, 2027: Penumbral lunar eclipse (a faint shading, hard to notice), visible from here, greatest at 12:12 am.

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October 2026 - Castañares de las Cuevas, La Rioja - 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 Castañares de las Cuevas.

All times are in Castañares de las Cuevas's time: Central European Summer Time (CEST, UTC+2) until October 25, 2026, and Central European Standard Time (CET, UTC+1) from then on.

The day length shortens by 1 hour, 22 minutes over the course of October 2026 in Castañares de las Cuevas, La Rioja - from 11 hours, 44 minutes on the first day to 10 hours, 22 minutes on the last day.

Year distribution of sunrise and sunset times in Castañares de las Cuevas, La Rioja - 2026

The following graph shows sunrise and sunset times in Castañares de las Cuevas, La Rioja for every day of the year. There are two jumps in the graph that represent the hour change for Daylight Saving Time (DST) in Castañares de las Cuevas, La Rioja.

Castañares de las Cuevas Analemma

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

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Castañares de las Cuevas analemma interactive visualizer.
Move along the curve to read the Sun's altitude and azimuth for any day of the year in Castañares de las Cuevas.

Over the year, the 12:00 Sun swings between just 22.3° above the horizon (around Dec 26) and 66° (around Jun 17) in Castañares de las Cuevas. The smaller loop sits at the top, the signature of a Northern Hemisphere analemma. Notice the whole figure leans east of the meridian: over Castañares de las Cuevas the Sun reaches its highest point between 12:53 and 13:24 depending on the time of year, but never at 12:00.

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 Castañares de las Cuevas 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.