Sunset & Sunrise Today in Mountain View, California

In Mountain View, California, the sun rises at 6:36 AM and sets at 7:41 PM today, Saturday, August 29, 2026, for a total of 13h 04m of daylight. Solar noon, when the sun is highest over Mountain View, is at 1:09 PM.

Mountain View lies at latitude 37.39°, in the mid-latitudes, where daylight swings noticeably between the long days of summer and the short days of winter. Each day is currently getting about 2 minutes shorter and 16 seconds. Through summer, the sunset time in Mountain View keeps shifting, which is why it pays to check the exact figure day by day.

For photographers, the evening golden hour in Mountain View runs from about 7:07 PM to 7:58 PM — that warm, low, flattering light just before sunset. The blue hour follows, roughly 7:58 PM to 8:08 PM, as twilight deepens.

Tomorrow, sunset in Mountain View is at 7:39 PM and sunrise at 6:37 AM — about 2m 16s less daylight than today. The table below shows how sunrise and sunset in Mountain View drift across the whole year.

This is high summer in Mountain View, the season of long evenings. Over the course of the year, sunset in Mountain View ranges from as early as 4:49 PM (around December 5) to as late as 8:32 PM (around June 20). Its longest day lands on June 20 with 14h 44m of daylight, and its shortest on December 21 with just 9h 34m.