Sunset & Sunrise Today in Barnstable, Massachusetts

On Sunday, August 23, 2026, the sun sets over Barnstable at 7:28 PM, having risen at 5:58 AM. That works out to 13h 30m of daylight today. The sun reaches its high point above Barnstable at 12:43 PM.

Sitting at 41.70° latitude puts Barnstable in 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. Through summer, the sunset time in Barnstable keeps shifting, which is why it pays to check the exact figure day by day.

Golden hour in Barnstable this evening is roughly 6:52 PM–7:47 PM, the best window for warm, soft photos. The blue hour follows, roughly 7:47 PM to 7:58 PM, as twilight deepens.

Tomorrow, sunset in Barnstable is at 7:27 PM and sunrise at 5:59 AM — about 2m 35s less daylight than today. The table below shows how sunrise and sunset in Barnstable drift across the whole year.

This is high summer in Barnstable, the season of long evenings. Over the course of the year, sunset in Barnstable ranges from as early as 4:10 PM (around December 3) to as late as 8:19 PM (around June 21). Its longest day lands on June 20 with 15h 11m of daylight, and its shortest on December 21 with just 9h 08m.