Sunset & Sunrise Today in La Mesa, California

On Sunday, August 23, 2026, the sun sets over La Mesa at 7:23 PM, having risen at 6:17 AM. That works out to 13h 06m of daylight today. Local solar noon in La Mesa falls at 12:50 PM.

La Mesa lies at latitude 32.77°, in the lower mid-latitudes, where daylight varies moderately between summer and winter. Each day is currently getting about 1 minute shorter and 51 seconds. Through summer, the sunset time in La Mesa keeps shifting, which is why it pays to check the exact figure day by day.

For photographers, the evening golden hour in La Mesa runs from about 6:51 PM to 7:39 PM — that warm, low, flattering light just before sunset. The blue hour follows, roughly 7:39 PM to 7:49 PM, as twilight deepens.

Tomorrow, sunset in La Mesa is at 7:22 PM and sunrise at 6:17 AM — about 1m 52s less daylight than today. The table below shows how sunrise and sunset in La Mesa drift across the whole year.

This is high summer in La Mesa, the season of long evenings. Over the course of the year, sunset in La Mesa ranges from as early as 4:41 PM (around November 27) to as late as 7:59 PM (around June 21). Its longest day lands on June 20 with 14h 18m of daylight, and its shortest on December 21 with just 9h 59m.