Sunset & Sunrise Today in West Hartford, Connecticut

On Sunday, August 23, 2026, the sun sets over West Hartford at 7:38 PM, having risen at 6:07 AM. That works out to 13h 30m of daylight today. The sun reaches its high point above West Hartford at 12:53 PM.

Because West Hartford is at 41.76° (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 35 seconds. This is summer in West Hartford, so the daily sun times are still on the move.

For photographers, the evening golden hour in West Hartford runs from about 7:01 PM to 7:56 PM — that warm, low, flattering light just before sunset. The blue hour follows, roughly 7:56 PM to 8:08 PM, as twilight deepens.

Tomorrow, sunset in West Hartford is at 7:36 PM and sunrise at 6:08 AM — about 2m 36s less daylight than today. The table below shows how sunrise and sunset in West Hartford drift across the whole year.

This is high summer in West Hartford, the season of long evenings. Over the course of the year, sunset in West Hartford ranges from as early as 4:19 PM (around December 6) to as late as 8:29 PM (around June 21). Its longest day lands on June 20 with 15h 12m of daylight, and its shortest on December 21 with just 9h 07m.