Sunset and sunrise times in Jerusalem, Israel

Sitting on the eastern side of its time zone puts solar noon at 11:30, a full 29 minutes before twelve o'clock, and drags the whole day — sunrise, noon and sunset — along with it. Daylight saving adds another hour on top, so today the sun peaks at 12:30.

It takes roughly 24 minutes to go from sunset to proper darkness, right on the 24-minute median for today.

Evening golden hour runs 47 minutes today. On the equator the same window lasts about 40 — at 31.8° the sun approaches the horizon at a shallower angle and takes its time.

The gap between the longest and shortest day of the year comes to 4h 9m, one of the narrowest swings of any Israel city on the site.

Between solstices the sunset walks 56° across the horizon — WSW in midwinter, WNW in midsummer — which is why a fixed viewpoint works only part of the year. Today's bearing is W.

Across September the sunset moves 38 minutes earlier, averaging about 78 seconds a day.

The clocks go back on 25 October 2026, so the sunset jumps from 17:57 to 16:56 overnight — the sun has not moved, the clock has.

Among 18 tracked Israel cities, sunset comes earliest here, separated from Ashkelon by 3 minutes.

Standing 786 m up buys you 4.6 extra minutes of evening sun: the higher you are, the further over the curve of the Earth you can see, by 0.97° here.