Fort Lauderdale, FL · 2026

Sunrise and sunset in Fort Lauderdale, Florida

Short answer

Fort Lauderdale gets 13 h 47 min of daylight on June 21 and 10 h 30 min on December 21, 2026. The latest sunset is 8:16 PM on June 22.
Longest day
13 h 47 min
Shortest day
10 h 30 min

Fort Lauderdale daylight through 2026

Daylight in Fort Lauderdale runs from 10 h 30 min on December 21 to 13 h 47 min on June 21, a seasonal swing of 3 h 16 min between June 21 and December 21. That swing ranks 332nd of 342 US cities of 100,000+, where 1st is the largest. Around the March equinox the city gets 12 h 07 min, and around the September equinox 12 h 08 min.

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Each column is one day from sunrise to sunset in local clock time.

Fort Lauderdale daylight by month

MonthAverageSunriseSunset
January10 h 43 min7:05 AM to 7:09 AM5:40 PM to 6:03 PM
February11 h 17 min6:44 AM to 7:04 AM6:03 PM to 6:21 PM
March12 h 01 min6:38 AM to 7:37 AM6:22 PM to 7:37 PM
April12 h 47 min6:44 AM to 7:11 AM7:37 PM to 7:51 PM
May13 h 26 min6:28 AM to 6:43 AM7:52 PM to 8:08 PM
June13 h 45 min6:27 AM to 6:31 AM8:08 PM to 8:16 PM
July13 h 35 min6:32 AM to 6:45 AM8:07 PM to 8:16 PM
August13 h 02 min6:46 AM to 7:00 AM7:41 PM to 8:07 PM
September12 h 18 min7:00 AM to 7:12 AM7:08 PM to 7:40 PM
October11 h 32 min7:13 AM to 7:28 AM6:39 PM to 7:06 PM
November10 h 52 min6:29 AM to 6:50 AM5:28 PM to 5:38 PM
December10 h 32 min6:50 AM to 7:07 AM5:28 PM to 5:39 PM
Local clock time (America/New_York). Computed with SunCalc at 26.141° N, 80.147° W.

Earliest sunrise, latest sunset and the clock

The earliest sunrise comes on June 5 at 6:27 AM and the latest sunset on June 22 at 8:16 PM. The latest sunrise is 7:37 AM on March 8. Daylight saving time starts and ends on March 8 and November 1, which shifts every clock time by an hour.

On standard time the clocks run 5 hours behind UTC, the time of the 75° W meridian. Fort Lauderdale sits at 80.15° W, so the sun runs about 21 minutes behind the zone clock. Solar noon is at 12:30 PM on January 15 and 1:26 PM on July 15.

Compared with nearby cities

Tallahassee, the state capital, gets 20 minutes more daylight than Fort Lauderdale on June 21 and 19 minutes less on December 21. Day length depends on latitude, so the table lists the paired cities from north to south.

CityLatitudeJune 21December 21
Port St. Lucie, FL27.28° N13 h 52 min10 h 25 min
West Palm Beach, FL26.75° N13 h 49 min10 h 28 min
Boca Raton, FL26.37° N13 h 48 min10 h 29 min
Coral Springs, FL26.27° N13 h 47 min10 h 30 min
Pompano Beach, FL26.24° N13 h 47 min10 h 30 min
Sunrise, FL26.17° N13 h 47 min10 h 30 min
Fort Lauderdale, FL26.14° N13 h 47 min10 h 30 min
Plantation, FL26.13° N13 h 47 min10 h 30 min
Davie, FL26.08° N13 h 46 min10 h 30 min
Hollywood, FL26.03° N13 h 46 min10 h 31 min
Pembroke Pines, FL26.01° N13 h 46 min10 h 31 min
Miami Gardens, FL25.95° N13 h 46 min10 h 31 min
Miami, FL25.78° N13 h 45 min10 h 32 min
Fort Lauderdale: 13 h 47 min on June 21 and 10 h 30 min on December 21.

Questions people ask

What is the longest day of the year in Fort Lauderdale?

June 21, 2026, with 13 h 47 min of daylight: sunrise 6:29 AM, sunset 8:15 PM.

What is the shortest day in Fort Lauderdale?

December 21, 2026, with 10 h 30 min: sunrise 7:03 AM, sunset 5:33 PM.

When is the latest sunset in Fort Lauderdale?

8:16 PM on June 22, 2026. The earliest sunset is 5:28 PM on November 23.

What time zone is Fort Lauderdale in?

America/New_York. Clocks change on March 8 (to EDT) and November 1 (to EST) in 2026.

Sources and data as of

Data as of: computed for 2026 at the Census internal point of Fort Lauderdale, 26.141° N, 80.147° W; time zone from Open-Meteo.

  1. 01SunCalc library (Vladimir Agafonkin), algorithms after Jean Meeus
  2. 02IANA time zone database (clock times and daylight saving rules)

How every number is computed: methodology. Spotted a wrong figure? Report an error.