Sunset & Sunrise Today in Athens, Georgia

Today, Saturday, August 29, sunset in Athens is at 8:02 PM and sunrise was at 7:05 AM, giving Athens 12h 57m between first and last light. The sun reaches its high point above Athens at 1:34 PM.

Sitting at 33.96° latitude puts Athens in the lower mid-latitudes — daylight varies moderately between summer and winter. Each day is currently getting about 2 minutes shorter. As summer progresses, sunrise and sunset in Athens move a little each day rather than staying fixed.

For photographers, the evening golden hour in Athens runs from about 7:30 PM to 8:19 PM — that warm, low, flattering light just before sunset. The blue hour follows, roughly 8:19 PM to 8:28 PM, as twilight deepens.

Tomorrow, sunset in Athens is at 8:01 PM and sunrise at 7:06 AM — about 2m 0s less daylight than today. The table below shows how sunrise and sunset in Athens drift across the whole year.

This is high summer in Athens, the season of long evenings. Over the course of the year, sunset in Athens ranges from as early as 5:23 PM (around December 2) to as late as 8:48 PM (around June 23). Its longest day lands on June 20 with 14h 24m of daylight, and its shortest on December 21 with just 9h 53m.