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Sunrise and sunset times in Great Smoky Mountains, NC

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

Noticed slightly different times? We upgraded our calculations

Today

October 18, 2026. Current time: 7:43:41 pm

Night ends at 6:18 am6:18:07 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 7:17 am7:17:23 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: 7:43:12 am EDTWhen 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: 6:54:31 pm EDTWhen 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 7:20 pm7:20:19 pm
End of civil twilight: the Sun reaches 6° below the horizon, and from then on artificial light is needed outdoors.·Night at 8:20 pm8:19:31 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: -10.71° (below the horizon) · Azimuth: 265.4° (W)

Daylight   Golden Hour   Dawn & dusk (civil twilight)   Night

Day length: 11 hours, 11 minutes

Sunset in Great Smoky Mountains was 49 minutes ago

Moon rose on Oct 18 at 2:55 pm Moon will set on Oct 19 at 12:53 amMoon phase: 🌓 First Quarter (53%)🌕 Full moon: Oct 26 at 12:11 am · 🌑 New moon: Nov 9 at 2:02 am

Tomorrow

October 19, 2026

Night ends at 6:19 am6:18:56 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 7:18 am7:18:14 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: 7:44:05 am EDTWhen 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: 6:53:16 pm EDTWhen 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 7:19 pm7:19:06 pm
End of civil twilight: the Sun reaches 6° below the horizon, and from then on artificial light is needed outdoors.·Night at 8:18 pm8:18:20 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: 11 hours, 9 minutes

Tomorrow will be 2 minutes shorter than today in Great Smoky Mountains

Moon will set on Oct 19 at 12:53 am Moon will rise on Oct 19 at 3:28 pmMoon phase: 🌔 Waxing Gibbous (64%)

• Great Smoky Mountains, North Carolina
• Latitude: 35.653194 (North)
• Longitude: -83.507019 (West)
• Time zone: Eastern Daylight Time (EDT, UTC−4)

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October 2026 - Great Smoky Mountains, North Carolina - 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 Great Smoky Mountains.

All times are in Great Smoky Mountains's time: Eastern Daylight Time (EDT, UTC−4).

The day length shortens by 1 hour, 4 minutes over the course of October 2026 in Great Smoky Mountains, NC - from 11 hours, 48 minutes on the first day to 10 hours, 44 minutes on the last day.

Year distribution of sunrise and sunset times in Great Smoky Mountains, NC - 2026

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

Great Smoky Mountains, NC Analemma

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

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Great Smoky Mountains, NC analemma interactive visualizer.
Move along the curve to read the Sun's altitude and azimuth for any day of the year in Great Smoky Mountains.

Over the year, the 12:00 Sun swings between just 30.4° above the horizon (around Dec 24) and 75.6° (around Jun 18) in Great Smoky Mountains. The smaller loop sits at the top, the signature of a Northern Hemisphere analemma. Notice the whole figure leans east of the meridian: over Great Smoky Mountains the Sun reaches its highest point between 12:17 and 12:48 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 Great Smoky Mountains, NC 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.