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Sunrise and sunset times in DCA - Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, DC

Check out today's and tomorrow's sunrise and sunset times in DCA - Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, as well as the whole calendar for November 2026.

Today

November 12, 2026. Current time: 8:40:16 pm

Night ends at 5:16 am5:15:42 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 6:19 am6:19:09 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: 6:47:27 am ESTWhen 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: 4:56:42 pm ESTWhen 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 5:25 pm5:24:59 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 6:28 pm6:28:24 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.

DCA - Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport Tides

High 9:55 pm 3.0 ftLow 5:19 am 0.4 ftWashington, Washington Channel, D.C.

Tide stationWashington, Washington Channel, D.C. (1.7 mi)Bellevue, D.C. (1.9 mi)Washington Naval Yard (2.7 mi)Alexandria, Va. (3.3 mi)Kingman Lake (4.8 mi)Kenilworth Aquatic Garden (6.0 mi)

Today, November 12

Low tide	4:39 am	0.3 ft	0.09 m
High tide	9:54 am	2.6 ft	0.78 m
Low tide	4:18 pm	0.4 ft	0.12 m
High tide	9:55 pm	3.0 ft	0.92 m

Tomorrow, November 13

Low tide	5:19 am	0.4 ft	0.11 m
High tide	10:37 am	2.5 ft	0.76 m
Low tide	4:57 pm	0.4 ft	0.13 m
High tide	10:36 pm	2.9 ft	0.89 m

Tide predictions: NOAA, station 8594900, Washington, Washington Channel, D.C. (harmonic station), heights above Mean Lower Low Water, local time. Predictions, not observations: wind and pressure change the real water level. Not for navigation.

Sun position chart

Now · Sun altitude: -43.52° (below the horizon) · Azimuth: 282.71° (W)

Daylight   Golden Hour   Blue Hour   Twilight   Night

Day length: 10 hours, 9 minutes

Sunset in DCA - Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport was 3 hours, 43 minutes ago

Moonrise: 10:10 am Moonset: 7:08 pmMoon phase: 🌒 Waxing Crescent (13%)🌕 Full moon: Nov 24 at 9:53 am · 🌑 New moon: Dec 8 at 7:51 pm

Tomorrow

November 13, 2026

Night ends at 5:17 am5:16:39 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 6:20 am6:20:11 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: 6:48:33 am ESTWhen 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: 4:55:52 pm ESTWhen 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 5:24 pm5:24:14 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 6:28 pm6:27:45 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, 7 minutes

Tomorrow will be 2 minutes shorter than today in DCA - Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport

Moonrise: 10:56 am Moonset: 8:05 pmMoon phase: 🌒 Waxing Crescent (21%)

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• DCA - Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, District of Columbia
• Also known as KDCA, Washington Reagan National
• Latitude: 38.8521 (North)
• Longitude: -77.037697 (West)
• Time zone: Eastern Standard Time (EST, UTC−5)

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November 2026 - DCA - Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, District of Columbia - 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 November in DCA - Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport.

All times are in DCA - Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport's time: Eastern Daylight Time (EDT, UTC−4) until November 1, 2026, and Eastern Standard Time (EST, UTC−5) from then on.

The day length shortens by 52 minutes over the course of November 2026 in DCA - Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, DC - from 10 hours, 32 minutes on the first day to 9 hours, 40 minutes on the last day.

Year distribution of sunrise and sunset times in DCA - Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, DC - 2026

The following graph shows sunrise and sunset times in DCA - Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, DC for every day of the year. There are two jumps in the graph that represent the hour change for Daylight Saving Time (DST) in DCA - Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, DC.

DCA - Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, DC Analemma

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

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DCA - Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, DC analemma interactive visualizer.
Move along the curve to read the Sun's altitude and azimuth for any day of the year in DCA - Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport.

Over the year, the 12:00 Sun swings between just 27.7° above the horizon (around Dec 21) and 74.4° (around Jun 21) in DCA - Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport. 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 DCA - Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, DC 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.