Sunset & Sunrise Today in Columbus, Ohio

Today, Sunday, August 16, sunset in Columbus is at 8:26 PM and sunrise was at 6:44 AM, giving Columbus 13h 41m between first and last light. The sun reaches its high point above Columbus at 1:36 PM.

Columbus lies at latitude 39.96°, 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 19 seconds. Through summer, the sunset time in Columbus keeps shifting, which is why it pays to check the exact figure day by day.

For photographers, the evening golden hour in Columbus runs from about 7:50 PM to 8:45 PM — that warm, low, flattering light just before sunset. The blue hour follows, roughly 8:45 PM to 8:56 PM, as twilight deepens.

Tomorrow, sunset in Columbus is at 8:25 PM and sunrise at 6:45 AM — about 2m 20s less daylight than today. The table below shows how sunrise and sunset in Columbus drift across the whole year.

This is high summer in Columbus, the season of long evenings. Over the course of the year, sunset in Columbus ranges from as early as 5:06 PM (around December 2) to as late as 9:04 PM (around June 22). Its longest day lands on June 20 with 15h 00m of daylight, and its shortest on December 21 with just 9h 19m.