Sunset & Sunrise Today in Fort Collins, Colorado

Today, Saturday, August 29, sunset in Fort Collins is at 7:36 PM and sunrise was at 6:24 AM, giving Fort Collins 13h 11m between first and last light. Local solar noon in Fort Collins falls at 1:01 PM.

Because Fort Collins is at 40.59° (the mid-latitudes), 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 33 seconds. This is summer in Fort Collins, so the daily sun times are still on the move.

For photographers, the evening golden hour in Fort Collins runs from about 7:01 PM to 7:54 PM — that warm, low, flattering light just before sunset. The blue hour follows, roughly 7:54 PM to 8:05 PM, as twilight deepens.

Tomorrow, sunset in Fort Collins is at 7:35 PM and sunrise at 6:25 AM — about 2m 33s less daylight than today. The table below shows how sunrise and sunset in Fort Collins drift across the whole year.

This is high summer in Fort Collins, the season of long evenings. Over the course of the year, sunset in Fort Collins ranges from as early as 4:32 PM (around December 5) to as late as 8:34 PM (around June 20). Its longest day lands on June 20 with 15h 04m of daylight, and its shortest on December 21 with just 9h 15m.