Sunset & Sunrise Today in Upper West Side, New York

Upper West Side, New York sees the sun come up at 6:20 AM and go down at 7:32 PM on Saturday, August 29, 2026 — 13h 12m of daylight from sunrise to sunset. Solar noon, when the sun is highest over Upper West Side, is at 12:57 PM.

Upper West Side lies at latitude 40.79°, 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 33 seconds. This is summer in Upper West Side, so the daily sun times are still on the move.

Golden hour in Upper West Side this evening is roughly 6:57 PM–7:50 PM, the best window for warm, soft photos. The blue hour follows, roughly 7:50 PM to 8:01 PM, as twilight deepens.

Tomorrow, sunset in Upper West Side is at 7:31 PM and sunrise at 6:21 AM — about 2m 35s less daylight than today. The table below shows how sunrise and sunset in Upper West Side drift across the whole year.

This is high summer in Upper West Side, the season of long evenings. Over the course of the year, sunset in Upper West Side ranges from as early as 4:27 PM (around December 5) to as late as 8:31 PM (around June 24). Its longest day lands on June 20 with 15h 05m of daylight, and its shortest on December 21 with just 9h 14m.