Sunset & Sunrise Today in Charlottesville, Virginia

In Charlottesville, Virginia, the sun rises at 6:41 AM and sets at 7:47 PM today, Saturday, August 29, 2026, for a total of 13h 06m of daylight. Local solar noon in Charlottesville falls at 1:15 PM.

Because Charlottesville is at 38.03° (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 19 seconds. This is summer in Charlottesville, so the daily sun times are still on the move.

Golden hour in Charlottesville this evening is roughly 7:13 PM–8:04 PM, the best window for warm, soft photos. The blue hour follows, roughly 8:04 PM to 8:15 PM, as twilight deepens.

Tomorrow, sunset in Charlottesville is at 7:46 PM and sunrise at 6:42 AM — about 2m 20s less daylight than today. The table below shows how sunrise and sunset in Charlottesville drift across the whole year.

This is high summer in Charlottesville, the season of long evenings. Over the course of the year, sunset in Charlottesville ranges from as early as 4:53 PM (around December 3) to as late as 8:40 PM (around June 23). Its longest day lands on June 20 with 14h 48m of daylight, and its shortest on December 21 with just 9h 30m.