Sunrise and Sunset Singapore: Today's Times, Golden Hour and Twilight

Times are calculated with the NOAA solar position algorithm (from Jean Meeus's Astronomical Algorithms) for central Singapore at 1.3521°N, 103.8198°E, in Singapore time (UTC+8). Sunrise and sunset are when the top of the sun touches the horizon, allowing 0.833° for atmospheric refraction and the sun's radius. Results match the US Naval Observatory's tables to within a minute.

Civil twilight is when the sun is less than 6° below the horizon: there is enough light to be outdoors without lamps, so civil dawn is first light and civil dusk is last light. Golden hour here is the time the sun is between 4° below and 6° above the horizon, when light is soft and warm. Near the equator the sun rises almost vertically, so twilight is short (about 21 minutes) and golden hour lasts about 40 minutes.

Singapore's day length barely changes: it stays between 12 h 03 min (around the December solstice) and 12 h 12 min (around the June solstice). Sunrise and sunset still drift by about half an hour across the year because of the equation of time, the effect of Earth's tilted, elliptical orbit. Singapore also keeps UTC+8, about an hour ahead of its solar time zone, which is why sunrise is around 7 am rather than 6 am.