Sunrise & Sunset in Glasgow, United Kingdom — Today and Next 10 Days
Sunrise in Glasgow
In Glasgow today, the sun comes up at 6:35 am and goes down at 7:53 pm — 13 hours 18 minutes of daylight in total.
Before sunrise, morning light develops in stages: astronomical twilight begins at 4:20 am, nautical twilight at 5:12 am and civil twilight at 5:59 am. Solar noon, the moment the sun reaches its highest point over Glasgow, falls at 1:14 pm.
These figures come from Glasgow's actual coordinates (55.86, -4.25) together with its time zone, Europe/London. A hill on the horizon, a tall building, local elevation or unusual atmospheric conditions can shift the sunrise or sunset you actually observe, sometimes by more than the small rounding differences between calculators.
Questions people ask
What time does the sun rise in Glasgow today?
Today the sun rises at 6:35 am in Glasgow. The ten-day table above shows exactly how that shifts across the coming week and a half.
How long is today's daylight in Glasgow?
13 hours 18 minutes in total — running from sunrise at 6:35 am through to sunset at 7:53 pm.
What time is solar noon in Glasgow?
1:14 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, atmospheric refraction assumptions, rounding and the exact coordinates used for a city can all move the result. A small difference does not automatically mean either calculator is wrong; compare the method and location each source uses.
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.