Sunset & Sunrise Today in Lansing, Michigan

On Saturday, August 29, 2026, the sun sets over Lansing at 8:17 PM, having risen at 7:00 AM. That works out to 13h 17m of daylight today. Local solar noon in Lansing falls at 1:39 PM.

Because Lansing is at 42.73° (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 45 seconds. Through summer, the sunset time in Lansing keeps shifting, which is why it pays to check the exact figure day by day.

For photographers, the evening golden hour in Lansing runs from about 7:40 PM to 8:35 PM — that warm, low, flattering light just before sunset. The blue hour follows, roughly 8:35 PM to 8:47 PM, as twilight deepens.

Tomorrow, sunset in Lansing is at 8:15 PM and sunrise at 7:01 AM — about 2m 45s less daylight than today. The table below shows how sunrise and sunset in Lansing drift across the whole year.

This is high summer in Lansing, the season of long evenings. Over the course of the year, sunset in Lansing ranges from as early as 5:04 PM (around December 2) to as late as 9:20 PM (around June 23). Its longest day lands on June 20 with 15h 19m of daylight, and its shortest on December 21 with just 9h 01m.