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Sunrise and sunset times in Belfast City Centre

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

Today

October 9, 2026. Current time: 8:48:24 pm

First light at 7:04:57 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: 7:40:54 am

Sunset time: 6:40:04 pm

Last light at 7:15:56 pm End of civil twilight: the Sun reaches 6° below the horizon, and from then on artificial light is needed outdoors.

Sun position chart

Now · Sun altitude: -19.3° (below the horizon) · Azimuth: 287° (W)

Daylight   Golden Hour   Dawn & dusk (civil twilight)   Night

Day length: 10 hours, 59 minutes

Sunset in Belfast City Centre was 2 hours, 8 minutes ago

Moon rose on Oct 9 at 6:12 AM Moon set on Oct 9 at 5:56 PMMoon phase: 🌘 Waning Crescent (1%)🌑 New moon: Oct 10 at 4:50 PM · 🌕 Full moon: Oct 26 at 4:11 AM

Tomorrow

October 10, 2026

First light at 7:06:48 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: 7:42:48 am

Sunset time: 6:37:37 pm

Last light at 7:13:32 pm End of civil twilight: the Sun reaches 6° below the horizon, and from then on artificial light is needed outdoors.

Day length: 10 hours, 54 minutes

Tomorrow will be 4 minutes shorter than today in Belfast City Centre

Moon will rise on Oct 10 at 7:35 AM Moon will set on Oct 10 at 6:05 PMMoon phase: 🌑 New Moon (0.2%)

• Belfast City Centre, Northern Ireland
• Latitude: 54.596329 (North)
• Longitude: -5.93004 (West)
• Time zone: British Summer Time (BST, UTC+1)

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October 2026 - Belfast City Centre, Northern Ireland - 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 Belfast City Centre.

All times are in Belfast City Centre's time: British Summer Time (BST, UTC+1) until October 25, 2026, and Greenwich Mean Time (GMT, UTC+0) from then on.

The day length shortens by 2 hours, 8 minutes over the course of October 2026 in Belfast City Centre, Northern Ireland - from 11 hours, 34 minutes on the first day to 9 hours, 25 minutes on the last day.

Year distribution of sunrise and sunset times in Belfast City Centre, Northern Ireland - 2026

The following graph shows sunrise and sunset times in Belfast City Centre, Northern Ireland for every day of the year. There are two jumps in the graph that represent the hour change for Daylight Saving Time (DST) in Belfast City Centre, Northern Ireland.

Belfast City Centre Analemma

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

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

Over the year, the 12:00 Sun swings between just 11.8° above the horizon (around Dec 21) and 58.5° (around Jun 20) in Belfast City Centre. The smaller loop sits at the top, the signature of a Northern Hemisphere analemma. Notice the whole figure leans east of the meridian: over Belfast City Centre the Sun reaches its highest point between 12:07 and 12:37 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 Belfast City Centre 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.