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Sunrise and sunset times in Alphen aan den Rijn

Check out today's and tomorrow's sunrise and sunset times in Alphen aan den Rijn, as well as the whole calendar for October 2026.

🕐Clocks go back one hour this Sunday, October 25, at 3:00 am (CEST → CET). From Sunday, sunrise and sunset come an hour earlier on the clock. Thu, Oct 22ThuFri, Oct 23FriSat, Oct 24SatSun, Oct 25Sun Sunrise8:18 am8:20 am8:22 am→7:23 am Sunset6:32 pm6:30 pm6:28 pm→5:26 pm

Today

October 22, 2026. Current time: 1:34:42 pm

Night ends at 6:25 am6:25:07 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 7:44 am7:43:43 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: 8:18:26 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: 6:32:22 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 7:07 pm7:07:02 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 8:25 pm8:25:27 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: 26.69° · Azimuth: 182.4° (S)

Daylight   Golden Hour   Dawn & dusk (civil twilight)   Night

Day length: 10 hours, 13 minutes

4 hours, 57 minutes left for today's sunset in Alphen aan den Rijn

Moon set on Oct 22 at 3:28 am Moon will rise on Oct 22 at 5:03 pmMoon phase: 🌔 Waxing Gibbous (84%)🌕 Full moon: Oct 26 at 5:11 am · 🌑 New moon: Nov 9 at 8:02 am

Tomorrow

October 23, 2026

Night ends at 6:27 am6:26:46 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 7:45 am7:45:25 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: 8:20:13 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: 6:30:18 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 7:05 pm7:05:03 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 8:24 pm8:23:32 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, 10 minutes

Tomorrow will be 4 minutes shorter than today in Alphen aan den Rijn

Moon will set on Oct 23 at 4:46 am Moon will rise on Oct 23 at 5:14 pmMoon phase: 🌔 Waxing Gibbous (94%)

• Alphen aan den Rijn, South Holland
• Latitude: 52.129169 (North)
• Longitude: 4.65546 (East)
• Time zone: Central European Summer Time (CEST, UTC+2)

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October 2026 - Alphen aan den Rijn, South Holland - 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 Alphen aan den Rijn.

All times are in Alphen aan den Rijn'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, 57 minutes over the course of October 2026 in Alphen aan den Rijn, South Holland - from 11 hours, 36 minutes on the first day to 9 hours, 39 minutes on the last day.

Year distribution of sunrise and sunset times in Alphen aan den Rijn, South Holland - 2026

The following graph shows sunrise and sunset times in Alphen aan den Rijn, South Holland for every day of the year. There are two jumps in the graph that represent the hour change for Daylight Saving Time (DST) in Alphen aan den Rijn, South Holland.

Alphen aan den Rijn Analemma

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

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Alphen aan den Rijn analemma interactive visualizer.
Move along the curve to read the Sun's altitude and azimuth for any day of the year in Alphen aan den Rijn.

Over the year, the 12:00 Sun swings between just 13.9° above the horizon (around Dec 23) and 60.1° (around Jun 20) in Alphen aan den Rijn. The smaller loop sits at the top, the signature of a Northern Hemisphere analemma. Notice the whole figure leans east of the meridian: over Alphen aan den Rijn the Sun reaches its highest point between 12:24 and 12:55 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 Alphen aan den Rijn 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.