Sunrise and Sunset Times in Melbourne, Australia
Sunrise in Melbourne
In Melbourne today, the sun comes up at 6:31 am and goes down at 6:04 pm — 11 hours 33 minutes of daylight in total.
Civil twilight runs from 6:06 am to 6:29 pm — the stretch either side of the sun itself when there's still enough natural light to read outdoors without help. Solar noon, the moment the sun sits at its highest point over Melbourne, falls at 12:18 pm.
These figures come from Melbourne's actual coordinates (-37.81, 144.96) together with its time zone, Australia/Melbourne. A hill sitting on the horizon, or a tall building nearby, can shift what you actually observe by a minute or two either way.
Questions people ask
What time does the sun rise in Melbourne today?
Today the sun rises at 6:31 am in Melbourne. The ten-day table above shows exactly how that shifts across the coming week and a half.
How long is today's daylight in Melbourne?
11 hours 33 minutes in total — running from sunrise at 6:31 am through to sunset at 6:04 pm.
What time is solar noon in Melbourne?
12:18 pm — the exact moment the sun reaches its highest point over the city, which only rarely lines up with clock noon.
Why does my sunset time differ slightly from another source I checked?
Elevation, the local horizon, and the exact coordinates used for a city all move the figure by a small amount. Anything within a couple of minutes counts as agreement, not an error.
How exactly are sunrise and sunset formally defined?
As the precise moment the sun's upper edge meets the horizon, with a small built-in correction for the way the atmosphere bends light — which is why the sun visibly appears slightly before it's geometrically actually there.
What is civil twilight, specifically?
The window either side of the sun's position when it sits up to six degrees below the horizon, where there's still enough natural light to comfortably work outdoors without artificial lighting.
What's the actual difference between nautical and astronomical twilight?
Twelve and eighteen degrees below the horizon respectively. At nautical twilight the sea horizon is still visible; once astronomical twilight ends, the sky is genuinely fully dark.
What actually happens above the Arctic Circle for part of the year?
For a portion of the year the sun simply neither rises nor sets at all. City pages at those latitudes state that plainly rather than printing a time that doesn't actually exist.
Why do two cities inside one time zone see sunrise at noticeably different times?
Because sunrise depends on longitude and latitude, not on which time zone a place happens to keep — a city several hundred kilometres further west sees the sun rise later, even on an identical offset.