Sunset & Sunrise Today in Briarwood, New York

Today, Sunday, August 23, sunset in Briarwood is at 7:41 PM and sunrise was at 6:13 AM, giving Briarwood 13h 27m between first and last light. The sun reaches its high point above Briarwood at 12:58 PM.

Briarwood lies at latitude 40.71°, in the mid-latitudes, where 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 30 seconds. Through summer, the sunset time in Briarwood keeps shifting, which is why it pays to check the exact figure day by day.

For photographers, the evening golden hour in Briarwood runs from about 7:05 PM to 7:59 PM — that warm, low, flattering light just before sunset. The blue hour follows, roughly 7:59 PM to 8:10 PM, as twilight deepens.

Tomorrow, sunset in Briarwood is at 7:39 PM and sunrise at 6:14 AM — about 2m 30s less daylight than today. The table below shows how sunrise and sunset in Briarwood drift across the whole year.

This is high summer in Briarwood, the season of long evenings. Over the course of the year, sunset in Briarwood ranges from as early as 4:27 PM (around December 3) to as late as 8:30 PM (around June 23). Its longest day lands on June 21 with 15h 05m of daylight, and its shortest on December 21 with just 9h 14m.