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Sunrise and sunset times in Shetland Islands

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

🕐Clocks go back one hour this Sunday, October 25, at 02:00 (BST → GMT). From Sunday, sunrise and sunset come an hour earlier on the clock.

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Today

October 20, 2026. Current time: 16:08:25

Night ends at 05:3605:36:14
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 07:1507:14:32
Start of civil twilight: the Sun is 6° below the horizon, and there is enough light to be outdoors without artificial light.

Sunrise time: 07:58:11When 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: 17:40:21When 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 18:2418:23:55
End of civil twilight: the Sun reaches 6° below the horizon, and from then on artificial light is needed outdoors.·Night at 20:0220:01:51
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: 8.90° · Azimuth: 229.3° (SW)

Daylight   Golden Hour   Dawn & dusk (civil twilight)   Night

Day length: 9 hours, 42 minutes

1 hour, 31 minutes left for today's sunset in Shetland Islands

Moon will rise on Oct 20 at 16:37 Moon will set on Oct 21 at 01:05Moon phase: 🌔 Waxing Gibbous (69%)🌕 Full moon: Oct 26 at 04:11 · 🌑 New moon: Nov 9 at 07:02

Tomorrow

October 21, 2026

Night ends at 05:3905:38:39
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 07:1707:16:57
Start of civil twilight: the Sun is 6° below the horizon, and there is enough light to be outdoors without artificial light.

Sunrise time: 08:00:45When 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: 17:37:28When 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 18:2118:21:11
End of civil twilight: the Sun reaches 6° below the horizon, and from then on artificial light is needed outdoors.·Night at 19:5919:59:08
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: 9 hours, 36 minutes

Tomorrow will be 5 minutes shorter than today in Shetland Islands

Moon will set on Oct 21 at 01:05 Moon will rise on Oct 21 at 16:37Moon phase: 🌔 Waxing Gibbous (80%)

• Shetland Islands, Scotland
• Latitude: 60.529652 (North)
• Longitude: -1.265941 (West)
• Time zone: British Summer Time (BST, UTC+1)

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October 2026 - Shetland Islands, Scotland - 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 Shetland Islands.

All times are in Shetland Islands'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, 44 minutes over the course of October 2026 in Shetland Islands, Scotland - from 11 hours, 26 minutes on the first day to 8 hours, 42 minutes on the last day.

Year distribution of sunrise and sunset times in Shetland Islands, Scotland - 2026

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

Shetland Islands Analemma

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

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

Over the year, the 12:00 Sun swings between just 6° above the horizon (around Dec 21) and 52.9° (around Jun 20) in Shetland Islands. The smaller loop sits at the top, the signature of a Northern 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 Shetland Islands 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.