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Sunrise and sunset times in West-Terschelling

🕐Clocks went back one hour yesterday at 3:00 am (CEST → CET). Fri, Oct 23FriSat, Oct 24SatSun, Oct 25SunMon, Oct 26Mon Sunrise8:20 am8:22 am→7:24 am7:26 am Sunset6:25 pm6:23 pm→5:21 pm5:19 pm

Today

October 26, 2026. Current time: 7:05:56 pm

Sunrise time: 7:26:16 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).

5:29Night ends5:29:01 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.6:50First light6:50:05 am
Start of civil twilight: the Sun is 6° below the horizon, and there is enough light to be outdoors without artificial light.6:50–7:04Blue hour6:50:05 am – 7:03:56 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.7:04–8:17Golden hour7:03:56 am – 8:16:59 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: 5:19:03 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).

4:28–5:41Golden hour4:28:22 pm – 5:41:21 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.5:41–5:55Blue hour5:41:21 pm – 5:55:10 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.5:55Dark5:55:10 pm
End of civil twilight: the Sun reaches 6° below the horizon, and from then on artificial light is needed outdoors.7:16Night7:16:05 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.

West-Terschelling Tides

High 9:32 pm 92 cmLow 3:41 am -99 cmTerschelling, west

Tide stationTerschelling, west (0.6 km)Vlieland, haven (10.8 km)

Today, October 26

Low tide	2:57 am	-94 cm
High tide	9:06 am	115 cm
Low tide	3:24 pm	-98 cm
High tide	9:32 pm	92 cm

Tomorrow, October 27

Low tide	3:41 am	-99 cm
High tide	9:49 am	112 cm
Low tide	4:05 pm	-97 cm
High tide	10:11 pm	95 cm

Tide predictions: Rijkswaterstaat, station Terschelling, west, astronomical tide, heights in centimetres above NAP (Amsterdam Ordnance Datum), local time. Predictions, not observations: wind and pressure change the real water level. Not for navigation. Source: Rijkswaterstaat, CC0.

Sun position chart

Now · Sun altitude: -16.48° (below the horizon) · Azimuth: 270.9° (W)

Daylight   Golden Hour   Blue Hour   Twilight   Night

Day length: 9 hours, 52 minutes

Sunset in West-Terschelling was 1 hour, 46 minutes ago

Moonset: 8:01 am Moonrise: 4:51 pmMoon phase: 🌕 Full Moon (99%)🌕 Full moon: today at 5:11 am · 🌑 New moon: Nov 9 at 8:02 am

Tomorrow

October 27, 2026

Night ends at 5:31 am5:30:43 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 6:52 am6:51:52 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: 7:28:09 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: 5:16:58 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 5:53 pm5:53:12 pm
End of civil twilight: the Sun reaches 6° below the horizon, and from then on artificial light is needed outdoors.·Night at 7:14 pm7:14:11 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: 9 hours, 48 minutes

Tomorrow will be 4 minutes shorter than today in West-Terschelling

Moonset: 9:35 am Moonrise: 5:15 pmMoon phase: 🌖 Waning Gibbous (95%)

• West-Terschelling, Friesland
• Latitude: 53.359112 (North)
• Longitude: 5.21482 (East)
• Time zone: Central European Standard Time (CET, UTC+1)

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October 2026 - West-Terschelling, Friesland - 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 West-Terschelling.

All times are in West-Terschelling'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 2 hours, 2 minutes over the course of October 2026 in West-Terschelling, Friesland - from 11 hours, 35 minutes on the first day to 9 hours, 33 minutes on the last day.

Year distribution of sunrise and sunset times in West-Terschelling, Friesland - 2026

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

West-Terschelling Analemma

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

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

Over the year, the 12:00 Sun swings between just 12.8° above the horizon (around Dec 23) and 59.1° (around Jun 20) in West-Terschelling. The smaller loop sits at the top, the signature of a Northern Hemisphere analemma. Notice the whole figure leans east of the meridian: over West-Terschelling the Sun reaches its highest point between 12:22 and 12:53 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 West-Terschelling 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.