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Sunrise and sunset times in RIC - Richmond International Airport, VA

Check out today's and tomorrow's sunrise and sunset times in RIC - Richmond International Airport, as well as the whole calendar for October 2026.

Noticed slightly different times? We upgraded our calculations

Today

October 21, 2026. Current time: 5:47:32 pm

Night ends at 5:56 am5:55:51 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.·Dawn at 6:57 am6:56:38 am
Dawn, first light: 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: 7:23:12 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: 6:23:57 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).

Dusk at 6:50 pm6:50:29 pm
Dusk, when it gets dark: the end of civil twilight. The Sun reaches 6° below the horizon, and from then on artificial light is needed outdoors.·Night at 7:51 pm7:51:13 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.

RIC - Richmond International Airport Tides

Low 7:53 pm 0.9 ftHigh 1:42 am 3.6 ftRichmond (river locks)

Tide station:Richmond (river locks) (5.7 mi)

Today, October 21

High tide	12:50 am	3.4 ft	1.04 m
Low tide	7:36 am	0.8 ft	0.23 m
High tide	1:21 pm	3.4 ft	1.03 m
Low tide	7:53 pm	0.9 ft	0.26 m

Tomorrow, October 22

High tide	1:42 am	3.6 ft	1.09 m
Low tide	8:25 am	0.9 ft	0.27 m
High tide	2:10 pm	3.7 ft	1.13 m
Low tide	8:52 pm	1.0 ft	0.29 m

Tide predictions: NOAA, station 8638495, Richmond (river locks) (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: 6.12° · Azimuth: 251.2° (W)

Daylight   Golden Hour   Dawn & dusk (civil twilight)   Night

Day length: 11 hours

36 minutes left for today's sunset in RIC - Richmond International Airport

Moon set on Oct 21 at 2:26 am Moon rose on Oct 21 at 4:01 pmMoon phase: 🌔 Waxing Gibbous (80%)🌕 Full moon: Oct 26 at 12:11 am · 🌑 New moon: Nov 9 at 2:02 am

Tomorrow

October 22, 2026

Night ends at 5:57 am5:56:44 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.·Dawn at 6:58 am6:57:34 am
Dawn, first light: 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: 7:24:11 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: 6:22:40 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).

Dusk at 6:49 pm6:49:15 pm
Dusk, when it gets dark: the end of civil twilight. The Sun reaches 6° below the horizon, and from then on artificial light is needed outdoors.·Night at 7:50 pm7:50:01 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, 58 minutes

Tomorrow will be 2 minutes shorter than today in RIC - Richmond International Airport

Moon will set on Oct 22 at 3:29 am Moon will rise on Oct 22 at 4:25 pmMoon phase: 🌔 Waxing Gibbous (89%)

• RIC - Richmond International Airport, Virginia
• Also known as KRIC
• Latitude: 37.505199 (North)
• Longitude: -77.319702 (West)
• Time zone: Eastern Daylight Time (EDT, UTC−4)

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October 2026 - RIC - Richmond International Airport, Virginia - 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 RIC - Richmond International Airport.

All times are in RIC - Richmond International Airport's time: Eastern Daylight Time (EDT, UTC−4).

The day length shortens by 1 hour, 9 minutes over the course of October 2026 in RIC - Richmond International Airport, VA - from 11 hours, 47 minutes on the first day to 10 hours, 38 minutes on the last day.

Year distribution of sunrise and sunset times in RIC - Richmond International Airport, VA - 2026

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

RIC - Richmond International Airport, VA Analemma

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

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RIC - Richmond International Airport, VA analemma interactive visualizer.
Move along the curve to read the Sun's altitude and azimuth for any day of the year in RIC - Richmond International Airport.

Over the year, the 12:00 Sun swings between just 29° above the horizon (around Dec 21) and 75.7° (around Jun 21) in RIC - Richmond International 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 RIC - Richmond International Airport, VA 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.