Gainesville, FL · 2026

Sunrise and sunset in Gainesville, Florida

Short answer

Gainesville gets 14 h 03 min of daylight on June 21 and 10 h 14 min on December 21, 2026. The latest sunset is 8:33 PM on June 22.
Longest day
14 h 03 min
Shortest day
10 h 14 min

Gainesville daylight through 2026

Daylight in Gainesville runs from 10 h 14 min on December 21 to 14 h 03 min on June 21, a seasonal swing of 3 h 49 min between June 21 and December 21. That swing ranks 307th of 342 US cities of 100,000+, where 1st is the largest. Around the March equinox the city gets 12 h 08 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.

Gainesville daylight by month

MonthAverageSunriseSunset
January10 h 30 min7:19 AM to 7:25 AM5:41 PM to 6:06 PM
February11 h 09 min6:56 AM to 7:19 AM6:07 PM to 6:28 PM
March12 h 01 min6:48 AM to 7:47 AM6:28 PM to 7:47 PM
April12 h 54 min6:47 AM to 7:18 AM7:48 PM to 8:05 PM
May13 h 39 min6:29 AM to 6:46 AM8:06 PM to 8:24 PM
June14 h 01 min6:28 AM to 6:32 AM8:25 PM to 8:33 PM
July13 h 50 min6:32 AM to 6:48 AM8:22 PM to 8:33 PM
August13 h 11 min6:49 AM to 7:06 AM7:52 PM to 8:22 PM
September12 h 19 min7:06 AM to 7:22 AM7:15 PM to 7:51 PM
October11 h 26 min7:22 AM to 7:42 AM6:43 PM to 7:14 PM
November10 h 40 min6:42 AM to 7:06 AM5:29 PM to 5:42 PM
December10 h 17 min7:07 AM to 7:24 AM5:29 PM to 5:40 PM
Local clock time (America/New_York). Computed with SunCalc at 29.680° N, 82.347° W.

Earliest sunrise, latest sunset and the clock

The earliest sunrise comes on June 4 at 6:28 AM and the latest sunset on June 22 at 8:33 PM. The latest sunrise is 7:47 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. Gainesville sits at 82.35° W, so the sun runs about 29 minutes behind the zone clock. Solar noon is at 12:38 PM on January 15 and 1:35 PM on July 15.

Compared with nearby cities

Tallahassee, the state capital, gets 4 minutes more daylight than Gainesville on June 21 and 4 minutes less on December 21. Day length depends on latitude, so the table lists the paired cities from north to south.

CityLatitudeJune 21December 21
Savannah, GA32.02° N14 h 15 min10 h 03 min
Tallahassee, FL30.45° N14 h 07 min10 h 11 min
Jacksonville, FL30.34° N14 h 06 min10 h 11 min
Gainesville, FL29.68° N14 h 03 min10 h 14 min
Palm Coast, FL29.54° N14 h 03 min10 h 15 min
Deltona, FL28.91° N13 h 59 min10 h 18 min
Orlando, FL28.41° N13 h 57 min10 h 20 min
Lakeland, FL28.06° N13 h 55 min10 h 22 min
Clearwater, FL27.98° N13 h 55 min10 h 22 min
Tampa, FL27.97° N13 h 55 min10 h 22 min
St. Petersburg, FL27.76° N13 h 54 min10 h 23 min
Gainesville: 14 h 03 min on June 21 and 10 h 14 min on December 21.

Questions people ask

What is the longest day of the year in Gainesville?

June 21, 2026, with 14 h 03 min of daylight: sunrise 6:29 AM, sunset 8:32 PM.

What is the shortest day in Gainesville?

December 21, 2026, with 10 h 14 min: sunrise 7:20 AM, sunset 5:34 PM.

When is the latest sunset in Gainesville?

8:33 PM on June 22, 2026. The earliest sunset is 5:29 PM on November 29.

What time zone is Gainesville 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 Gainesville, 29.680° N, 82.347° 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)

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